FROM HASTINGS TO THE MARY ROSE: THE GREAT WARBOW
Written by Matthew Strickland, Robert Hardy
Published by Sutton Publishing
in 2005
ISBN: 0750931671
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- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- MILITARY
- ARCHERY
- MIDDLE AGES
- SHIPWRECKS
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FROM HASTINGS TO THE MARY ROSE: THE GREAT WARBOW
Written by Matthew Strickland, Robert Hardy.
Stock no. 1828008
1st.
2005.
Hardback.
Large format.
Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
In 1979, divers excavating the wreck of the Tudor warship the Mary Rose discovered numerous yew longbows in remarkable condition, some still in their packing chests. This led to a major new study of the medieval longbow at war... Large format. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour & b/w photos and illustrations. ISBN: 0750931671. Narrow band of white marking to vertical edges of covers, rear pastedown is misplaced during binding process, leaving a small chip to pastedown, lower half of page 371/372 is creased, else a lovely copy. Dustwrapper slightly faded to spine.
Front cover
Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- PART I. THE WEAPON
- 1. THE MARY ROSE EXPERIENCE
- 2. ORIGINS AND ANTECEDENTS: THE MYTH OF THE SHORTBOW
- PART II. THE LONGBOW BEFORE CRECY
- 3. BEFORE DOMESDAY BOOK: THE BOW AND THE CROSSBOW IN EARLY MEDIEVAL WARFARE
- 4, TACTICS FOUND AND LOST: DISMOUNTED KNIGHTS AND ARCHERS IN ANGLO-NORMAN ENGLAND
- 5. THE LONGBOW IN WALES AND IRELAND
- 6. CRUSADERS AND COMPOSITE BOWS
- 7. THE REIGN OF THE CROSSBOW
- 8. THE WOODS SO WILD: ARCHERY AND THE FOREST IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY
- 9. THE HAMMER AND THE ANVIL: THE LONGBOW IN THE WARS OF EDWARD I
- 10. THE CRUCIBLE OF DEFEAT: BANNOCKBURN TO BOROUGHBRIDGE
- 11. A TERRIBLE RECKONING: FROM DUPPLIN MOOR TO NEVILLE'S CROSS
- PART III. THE HUNDRED YEARS WAR AND BEYOND
- 12. THE NOBLEST AND FINEST WARRIORS THAT ARE KNOWN: THE TRANSFORMATION OF ENGLISH ARMIES 1330-1415
- 13. APOGEE: ENGLISH VICTORIES AND FRENCH TACTICAL RESPONSES 1337-64
- 14. REVERBERATIONS: THE IMPACT OF THE LONGBOW 1360-1403
- 15. ATTACK AND DEFENCE: ARMOUR, ARROW PENETRATIONS AND WOUNDS
- 16. THE TACTICAL DEPOLYMENT OF ARCHERS
- 17. 'THAT MOUND OF BLOOD AND PITY' AGINCOURT, 1415
- 18. THE ENGLISH WAY IN WAR? THE IMPACT OF THE LONGBOW IN FIFTEENTH-CENTURY EUROPE
- 19. 'HERE OURSELVES TO SPILL': THE LONGBOW IN THE ENGLISH CIVIL WARS OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY
- 20. TUDOR TWILIGHT
- Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index