Chapter III: Section II: The Weapons and Engines of War

XV. INTRODUCTORY AND GENERAL 151

XVI. THE SWORD 158

XVII. THE DAGGER 175

XVIII. THE LONGBOW 178

XIX. THE CROSSBOW 183

XX. MACHINES FOR HURLING OR SHOOTING MISSILES, AND THE
WARWOLF 187

XXI. MACHINES FOR ATTACKING BELEAGUERED PLACES 190

XXII. THE SLING AND FUSTIBAL 192

XXIII. STAFF AND CLUB WEAPONS 193

XXIV. EARLY ARTILLERY 204

XXV. EARLY HAND-GUNS 216

INDEX 229

ILLUSTRATIONS.

FIG. PAGE
1. TRANSITIONAL GOTHIC SUIT AT MUNICH _Frontispiece_
_Face_
2. GREAT HELMS AT BERLIN 48

3. MOUNTED SUIT WITH BARDS, IN THE KUNGL. LIFRUSTKAMMAR
COLLECTION, STOCKHOLM 67

4. SHARFRENNEN AT MINDEN IN 1545 88

5. SUIT AT DRESDEN FOR SHARFRENNEN, DATE 1554 88

6. TILTING SUIT AT NUREMBERG, FOR THE GERMAN GESTECH 90

7. TILTING SUIT FOR THE ITALIAN COURSE (WELSCHES GESTECH) 91

8. AN ITALIAN COURSE AT AUGSBURG IN 1510 (WELSCHES GESTECH) 91

9. ARMOUR FOR THE FREITURNIER AT DRESDEN 92

10. REINFORCING PIECES FOR THE TOURNAMENT 95

11. DO. DO. DO. 95

12. TILTING HELM AT HAUGHTON CASTLE, NORTHUMBERLAND 96

13. SALLADS, ETC. 98

14. BRAYETTE IN CHAIN-MAIL, AT BERLIN 109

15. PAGEANT SHIELD, FORMERLY IN THE COLLECTION OF PRINCE CARL
OF PRUSSIA 113

16. EFFIGY OF RICHARD BEAUCHAMP, EARL OF WARWICK, IN ST. MARY’S
CHURCH, WARWICK 119

17. GOTHIC SUIT AT SIGMARINGEN 120

18. GOTHIC SUIT AT BERLIN 122

19. GOTHIC SUIT, IN THE AUTHOR’S COLLECTION 124

20. FLUTED MAXIMILIAN SUIT AT BERLIN 127

21. FLUTED MAXIMILIAN SUIT AT MUNICH 128

22. FLUTED MAXIMILIAN SUIT, WITH GROTESQUE HELMET 128

23. PLAIN MAXIMILIAN SUIT, IN THE AUTHOR’S COLLECTION 128

24. MOUNTED MAXIMILIAN SUIT, WITH BARDS 130

25. SUIT WITH LAMBOYS, IN THE AUTHOR’S COLLECTION 130

26. SUIT BY PETER VON SPEYER OF ANNABERG, DATED 1560 135

27. PLAIN DEMI-SUIT, IN THE AUTHOR’S COLLECTION 136

28. BLACK AND WHITE DEMI-SUIT, IN THE AUTHOR’S COLLECTION 137

29. LATE SUIT AT MUNICH, 1590–1620 137

30. LATE SUIT AT BRANCEPETH CASTLE, DURHAM 138

ENRICHED ARMOUR.

31. SUITS BY JÖRG SEUSENHOFER, OF INNSBRUCK 141

32. CUIRASS AND TASSETS AT DRESDEN 141

33. SUIT AT ALNWICK CASTLE, NORTHUMBERLAND 142

34. SOME DETAILS OF THE SUIT AT ALNWICK CASTLE 144

35. SUIT BY LUCIO PICCININO, OF MILAN 144

36. REPOUSSÉ ARMOUR AT BERLIN 145

37. SUIT OF THE DUC D’OSUNA 146

38. SOME DETAILS OF THE OSUNA SUIT 147

39. SUIT BY ANTON PEFFENHAUSER, AT MADRID 148

WEAPONS.

40. ENRICHED SWORD, SECOND HALF SIXTEENTH CENTURY 156

41. HAND-GUNS, RENAISSANCE WORK 157

42. TWO-HANDED SWORDS, FLAMBERGES, AND DAGGERS 166

43. ANELACE AT BERLIN 176

44. SWORD OF CHARLES V., ABOUT 1530 168

45. RAPIERS--GERMAN, SPANISH, AND ITALIAN 169

46. SCHIAVONA, IN THE AUTHOR’S COLLECTION 173

47. CROSSBOWS AND QUARRELS 185

48. PRINCIPLE OF THE BALLISTA 204

49. STAFF AND CLUB WEAPONS, ETC. 204

50. EARLY ARTILLERY 210

51. EARLY HAND-GUNS 228

THE DEFENSIVE ARMOUR AND THE WEAPONS AND ENGINES OF WAR OF MEDIÆVAL
TIMES, AND OF THE “RENAISSANCE.”

_SECTION I._

DEFENSIVE ARMOUR.