Avar-Age Polearms and Edged Weapons: Classification, Typology, Chronology and Technology - Couverture rigide

Csiky, Gergely

 
9789004226616: Avar-Age Polearms and Edged Weapons: Classification, Typology, Chronology and Technology
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 9004226613 ISBN 13 : 9789004226616
Editeur : Brill, 2015

Synopsis

In Avar-Age Polearms and Edged Weapons, Gergely Csiky offers a presentation of close combat weapons of a nomadic population that migrated from Inner Asia to East-Central Europe. During the late 6th - early 7th centuries, the Avars led successful military campaigns against the Balkan realms of the Byzantine Empire, facilitated by their cavalry's use of stirrups for the first time in Europe.
Besides the classification, manufacturing techniques, fittings, suspension, distribution, and chronology of polearms and edged weapons known from Avar-age burials, a special emphasis is laid on the origins and cultural contacts of these weapons, among them the first edged weapons with curved blades: the sabres. The social significance and, function of these artefacts is discussed in order to place them in nomadic warfare.

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À propos de l'auteur

Gergely Csiky, Ph.D. (2010, Budapest), Institute of Archaeology, RCH HAS, is a researcher of Avar archaeology, weapon and military history. He has published several articles on Avar-age weaponry and weapon burials.

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Éditeur
Brill
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9004226613
ISBN 13 
9789004226616
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
564
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Personne responsable
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