The Iron Arrow Head

The Iron Arrow Head PDF Author: Eugène Sue
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Category : Normans
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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The Iron Arrow Head

The Iron Arrow Head PDF Author: Eugène Sue
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Category : Normans
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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The Mysteries of the People: The iron arrow-head

The Mysteries of the People: The iron arrow-head PDF Author: Eugène Sue
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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The Iron Arrow Head or The Buckler Maiden: A Tale of the Northman Invasion

The Iron Arrow Head or The Buckler Maiden: A Tale of the Northman Invasion PDF Author: Eugène Sue
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 105

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Eugene Sue's 'The Iron Arrow-Head' is a historical novel that immerses readers in the turbulent world of medieval France. Set in 911 AD, the book follows the conflict between the native Gauls and the invading Franks, as well as the sudden arrival of the Northmen or Norsemen, who come to conquer and seek adventure. With its portrayal of the fierce battles and political intrigue, this novel captures the essence of a pivotal moment in European history.

The Iron Arrow Head or The Buckler Maiden: A Tale of the Northman Invasion

The Iron Arrow Head or The Buckler Maiden: A Tale of the Northman Invasion PDF Author: Эжен Сю
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5040826168
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 149

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European Arrowheads and Crossbow Bolts

European Arrowheads and Crossbow Bolts PDF Author: Carsten Rau
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781978180789
Category : Arrowheads
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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European arrowheads and crossbow bolts are relatively under-represented in the literature and are usually treated only as minor aspects. There is a lack of an overview of the various forms of European arrowhead typologies. This book intends to close this gap and give the reader an insight into the world of arrowheads and crossbow bolts. This book contains a collec-tion of hundreds of arrowheads, published for the first time. The book is divided into three main chapters because there is a metallurgical distinction between bronze and iron as well as a mechanical distinction between the bow and the crossbow. In all three chapters, unique formal-typological distinction criteria have been developed, even though the epochs overlap in time. I have attempted to include as much as possible about the most important, frequent and sometimes unusual and rare form-types in this book. For the determination of arrowheads and crossbow bolts, this guide is useful as a directional guide.

Homer and His Age

Homer and His Age PDF Author: Andrew Lang
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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Iron, we repeat, is in the poems a perfectly familiar metal. Ownership of bronze, gold, and iron, which requires much labour (in the smithying or smelting), appears regularly in the recurrent epic formula for describing a man of wealth. Footnote: Iliad, VI. 48; IX. 365-366; X. 379; XI. 133; Odyssey, XIV. 324; XXI. 10.] Iron, bronze, slaves, and hides are bartered for sea-borne wine at the siege of Troy?

The Hundred Years War (Part II)

The Hundred Years War (Part II) PDF Author: Andrew Villalon
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047442830
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 512

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This book takes a fresh look at the Hundred Years War by gathering the latest scholarship on several aspects of the conflict that have not been amply studied before and several that have become “gospel” by numerous scholarly treatments. The collection focuses on the following subjects: (1) the Hundred Years War as a wide-ranging struggle that effected many European regions, (2) the battle of Agincourt and its political and emotional aftermath, (3) the Iberian theater of war that sprang from the main conflict, (4) the impact of the crossbow and longbow on the great battles of the conflict, (5) great leaders of the war, and (6) economic, literary, and psychological aspects of the conflict. Contributors are: William P. Caferro, Megan Cassidy Welch, Kelly DeVries, Donald J. Kagay, Ilana Krug, Russell Mitchell, Steven Muhlberger, Clifford J. Rogers, L. B. Ross, Dana Sample, Wendy Turner, Richard Vernier, L. J. Andrew Villalon and David Whetham. Winner of the 2014 Verbruggen Prize of De Re Militari (the Society for the Study of Medieval Military History) given annually for the best book on medieval military history.

Homer and His Age

Homer and His Age PDF Author: Andrew Lang
Publisher: Good Press
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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In 'Homer and His Age', Andrew Lang examines the controversy surrounding the authorship of Homer's epic poems. Lang argues that the fallacy of the analytical reader, who expects a level of consistency beyond the intended audience of the poet, is at the root of many objections to the idea that only Homer and no other author wrote his poems. Lang explores the way of life described in the poems, demonstrating that it reflects a single brief age of culture. He urges readers not to be swayed by dogmatic assumptions about the most fashionable hypothesis, but to approach the study of Homer with the scientific spirit of comparison, logic, and economy of conjecture.

The Selected Works of Andrew Lang

The Selected Works of Andrew Lang PDF Author: Andrew Lang
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465527419
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 18996

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When the learned first gave serious attention to popular ballads, from the time of Percy to that of Scott, they laboured under certain disabilities. The Comparative Method was scarcely understood, and was little practised. Editors were content to study the ballads of their own countryside, or, at most, of Great Britain. Teutonic and Northern parallels to our ballads were then adduced, as by Scott and Jamieson. It was later that the ballads of Europe, from the Faroes to Modern Greece, were compared with our own, with EuropeanMärchen, or children’s tales, and with the popular songs, dances, and traditions of classical and savage peoples. The results of this more recent comparison may be briefly stated. Poetry begins, as Aristotle says, in improvisation. Every man is his own poet, and, in moments of stronge motion, expresses himself in song. A typical example is the Song of Lamech in Genesis—“I have slain a man to my wounding, And a young man to my hurt.” Instances perpetually occur in the Sagas: Grettir, Egil, Skarphedin, are always singing. In Kidnapped, Mr. Stevenson introduces “The Song of the Sword of Alan,” a fine example of Celtic practice: words and air are beaten out together, in the heat of victory. In the same way, the women sang improvised dirges, like Helen; lullabies, like the lullaby of Danae in Simonides, and flower songs, as in modern Italy. Every function of life, war, agriculture, the chase, had its appropriate magical and mimetic dance and song, as in Finland, among Red Indians, and among Australian blacks. “The deeds of men” were chanted by heroes, as by Achilles; stories were told in alternate verse and prose; girls, like Homer’s Nausicaa, accompanied dance and ball play, priests and medicine-men accompanied rites and magical ceremonies by songs. These practices are world-wide, and world-old. The thoroughly popular songs, thus evolved, became the rude material of a professional class of minstrels, when these arose, as in the heroic age of Greece. A minstrel might be attached to a Court, or a noble; or he might go wandering with song and harp among the people. In either case, this class of men developed more regular and ample measures. They evolved the hexameter; the laisse of the Chansons de Geste; the strange technicalities of Scandinavian poetry; the metres of Vedic hymns; the choral odes of Greece. The narrative popular chant became in their hands the Epic, or the mediaeval rhymed romance. The metre of improvised verse changed into the artistic lyric. These lyric forms were fixed, in many cases, by the art of writing. But poetry did not remain solely in professional and literary hands. The mediaeval minstrels and jongleurs (who may best be studied in Léon Gautier’s Introduction to his Epopées Françaises) sang in Court and Camp. The poorer, less regular brethren of the art, harped and played conjuring tricks, in farm and grange, or at street corners. The foreign newer metres took the place of the old alliterative English verse. But unprofessional men and women did not cease to make and sing.

Catalogue

Catalogue PDF Author: Army Medical Museum (U.S.)
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Category : Anatomical specimens
Languages : en
Pages : 692

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