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Journal articles on the topic "Medieval sword"

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Lyons, James Scott. "Technological Choice in a Medieval Japanese Sword." Materials Science Forum 983 (March 2020): 41–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/msf.983.41.

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Japanese swords have long been a source of fascination for metallographers both Japanese and Western, but most studies lean toward functional explanations of metallurgical features or description of how features correspond to historical and ethnographic accounts of production. At the same time, there is a long tradition of sword connoisseurship that through its visual and historical perspective offers insight about particular smiths and their traditions. In a metallographic examination of a 15th century Japanese sword of the Bizen tradition, I take a chaîne opératoire approach and draw on aspe
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D’Amato, Raffaele, and Dmytro Dymydyuk. "The Sword with the Sleeve Cross-Guard in the Fresco from the Cathedral of the Holy Cross on Aghtamar Island." Studia Ceranea 11 (December 30, 2021): 107–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/2084-140x.11.06.

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There is an indisputable fact that in Medieval Armenia, as in most countries of the Middle Ages, the sword was a popular (but expensive) type of weapon. However, what did these “swords” look like? The aim of the article is to analyse one internal fresco called “Massacre of the Innocents” from Aghtamar Church (915–921), where a depiction of the sword with the sleeve cross-guard could be found.Comparisons of the known archaeological finds of “Byzantine” type swords from Eastern Europe and Near East have been made, proving the idea that such type of swords actually existed. The authors, with the
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Classen, Albrecht. "Symbolic Significance of the Sword in the Hero’s Hand: Beowulf, The Nibelungenlied, El Poema de Mio Cid, Volsunga Saga, and Njál’s Saga." Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik 80, no. 3 (2020): 346–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18756719-12340186.

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Abstract The medieval hero cannot be imagined without a significant sword. Swords often have names and a mysterious identity. Beowulf cannot kill Grendel’s mother with his own sword, but has to resort to some of the ancient weapons lying in her lair. In the Nibelungenlied, Siegfried’s sword gets into the hand of his nemesis, Hagen, after he has murdered him. Siegfried’s widow, Kriemhild, finally takes it from Hagen and decapitates him. This, however, means her own death. In the Old Spanish El Poema de Mio Cid, the protagonist conquers two most valuable swords, and he passes them on to his sons
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Košta, Jiří, Jiří Hošek, Filip Krásný, and Radek Novák. "The sword from Vlčí Pole." Archeologické rozhledy 76, no. 2 (2024): 124–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.35686/ar.2024.240.

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Finds of early medieval Schlingen-type swords are mostly concentrated in present-day southern Germany, where they are known from a number of graves dating to the end of the late Merovingian period. On the contrary, these swords are completely absent in contexts of the early Carolingian and Great Moravian periods. This paper presents a new find of Schlingen-type sword from Vlčí Pole in the northeastern part of Central Bohemia and its archaeometric analysis. We consider the sword from Vlčí Pole to be the only unambiguous find of a fully preserved long-bladed weapon of the late 7th to 8th century
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Török, Béla, Péter Barkóczy, Péter Langó, and Boglárka Tóth. "Archaeometric Investigation of the Kunágota-Sword : A Case Study." Archeometriai Műhely 19, no. 3 (2022): 279–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.55023/issn.1786-271x.2022-019.

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Among the Early Medieval double-edged swords, excavated in the Carpathian Basin, there are a few which probably have Byzantine origin. The most unique piece of this small but significant group of weapons was unearthed at Kunágota, Southern Hungary. The sword, which has a special sword-guard made of bronze, has been examined by the experts of the Archaeometallurgical Research Group of the University of Miskolc with optical microscopy, SEM-EDS, ED-XRF, and microhardness tests. The primary aim was to study the microstructure of the blade and guard. There was also an important objective of the inv
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Fraher, Richard M. "Conviction According to Conscience: The Medieval Jurists' Debate Concerning Judicial Discretion and the Law of Proof." Law and History Review 7, no. 1 (1989): 23–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/743777.

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One bright, sunny day in northern Italy, let us say in Bologna in the year 1275, a group of law students might have sat and listened to this case. A man named Seius slipped into a shed owned by his sworn enemy, Titius. A priest, a wealthy merchant, and a physician, all of them unimpeachable witnesses, saw Seius enter the shed with his sword drawn. A moment later they heard a man cry out. Then they clearly saw Seius, shaken and pallid, emerge through the doorway, bloody sword in hand. When Seius noticed the witnesses coming toward him, he fled. The witnesses found Titius in the shed, unconsciou
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Sayer, Duncan, Erin Sebo, and Kyle Hughes. "A Double-edged Sword: Swords, Bodies, and Personhood in Early Medieval Archaeology and Literature." European Journal of Archaeology 22, no. 4 (2019): 542–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2019.18.

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In Anglo-Saxon and Viking literature swords form part of a hero's identity. In addition to being weapons, they represent a material agent for the individual's actions, a physical expression of identity. In this article we bring together the evidence from literature and archaeology concerning Anglo-Saxon and Viking-age swords and argue that these strands of evidence converge on the construction of mortuary identities and particular personhoods. The placement of the sword in funerary contexts is important. Swords were not just objects; they were worn close to the body, intermingling with the phy
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Tzouriadis, Iason Eleftherios, and Jacob Deacon. "A Long-Distance Relationship: Staff Weapons as a Microcosm for the Study of Fight Books, c. 1400-1550." Acta Periodica Duellatorum 8, no. 1 (2020): 45–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.36950/apd-2020-004.

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The fifteenth-century fight book author Filippo Vadi wrote that the sword “is a cross and a royal weapon”: this inherent chivalric symbolism associated with the sword has led to a wealth of scholarship on the weapon but seemingly at a cost to research into other forms of weaponry used in medieval and early modern Europe, particularly various typologies of staff weapons. This article presents an analysis of the appearance staff weapons in the heterogeneous fight book genre. It uses their limited appearance, in comparison to swords, as a means of creating a microcosm through which several questi
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Jarosław, Ościłowski. "A medieval sword from the vicinity of Sztum." Masuro-⁠Warmian Bulletin 301, no. 3 (2018): 524–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.51974/kmw-134881.

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In the collection of the Polish Army Museum in Warsaw, there is an Xa-type sword following Ewart Oake�shott’s classification deriving from the vicinity of Sztum. This sword is decorated on both sides with an ornament: in the form of the letter S within a circle on one side, and an equal-armed cross (cross potent) on the other. Formal features of the sword indicate its production between the mid-11th and 12th centuries, while analogies for its decorations, as well as the region where it was found, also point to the sword being dated to the first half of the 13th century.
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Classen, Albrecht. "Kristen B. Neuschel, Living by the Sword: Weapons and Material Culture in France and Britain, 600-1600. Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press, 2020, xii, 223, 13 b/w fig., 4 color plates." Mediaevistik 34, no. 1 (2021): 345–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.3726/med.2021.01.53.

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Sometimes, serendipity rules, also in scholarship. For a few years now, the interest by a growing number of researchers has focused on the so-called Ding, the material objects in the medieval world, examining not just its physical nature, but its social, spiritual, religious, and other significance. Anna Mühlherr et al. edited a volume on Dingkulturen: Objekte in Literatur, Kunst und Gesellschaft der Vormoderne (2016); Warren Tormey published his article “Magical (and Maligned) Metalworkers: Understanding Representations of Early and High Medieval Blacksmiths,” in Magic and Magicians in the Mi
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Medieval sword"

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Brunning, S. E. "The 'living' sword in early medieval northern Europe : an interdisciplinary study." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2013. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1416279/.

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This thesis explores perceptions of two-edged swords as ‘living’ artefacts in Anglo-Saxon England and Scandinavia between c. 500 and 1100. Taking inspiration from recent anthropological and archaeological research into ‘artefact biography’, it considers two interlinked avenues of ‘life’: (1) the notion that swords could acquire life-histories, personalities and other person-like qualities; and (2) the nature of their relationship with warriors (as opposed to other members of society). The thesis compares Anglo-Saxon England and Scandinavia across a broad chronological period in order to identi
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Lang, Janet. "The rise and fall of pattern welding : an investigation into the construction of pre-medieval sword blades." Thesis, University of Reading, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.494985.

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This investigation was carried out to establish the compositions and the fabrication of ferrous metal swords, in the Pre-Medieval period and to discover if the different methods of construction which are observed had any significant effect on the properties of the blades, apart from affecting their appearance. Blades with patternwelded structures, made by a technique which emerged in the late La Tene period, using twisted strips or rods, were originally of fine appearance. As little is understood of their mechanical properties, this investigation was designed to show if patternwelding merely i
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Windsor, Guy Stanley Tresham. "Recreating Medieval and Renaissance European combat systems : a critical review of The Art of Sword Fighting in Earnest, Mastering the Art of Arms vol 1 : The Medieval Dagger, and The Duellist's Companion." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/31279.

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The three publications offered for evaluation, The Art of Sword Fighting in Earnest, Mastering the Art of Arms vol 1: The Medieval Dagger, and The Duellist's Companion, establish by example the relatively young discipline of the accurate recreation of historical martial skills. This discipline includes the following elements: • Textual analysis of historical sources (The Art of Sword Fighting in Earnest). • Image analysis for the purpose of establishing details of the execution of the illustrated action (all three works). Mechanical or kinesthetic analysis of the actions described and depicted
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Pettersson, Karl. "Seeing and Sinners : Spatial Stratification and the Medieval Hagioscopes of Gotland." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Historiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-157046.

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The hagioscope—a small tunnel or opening usually set at eye-level in a church wall—is a complex and multifaceted device that appears in Europe during the late medieval period. Despite an increased interest in the  history of the senses, the hagioscope has been overlooked until now. Drawing from Hans Georg Gadamer’s ideas  about hermeneutics, Jacques Le Goff’s work on Purgatory, and the medieval intellectual Peter of Limoges’ thoughts on vision, this study aims to shed light on why the hagioscope appeared when it did and how it may  have been used.   This case study of the hagioscope concerns t
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Favorito, Rebecca. "Constructing Legitimacy: Patrimony, Patronage, and Political Communication in the Coronation of Henry IV." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1468594085.

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Books on the topic "Medieval sword"

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Bernard, Knight, ed. Sword of shame: A historical mystery. Pocket Books, 2007.

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Wolfe, Gene. Sword & citadel. Orb Books, 1994.

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Wolfe, Gene. Sword & Citadel. Orb Books, 1994.

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Wolfe, Gene. Sword & Citadel: The Sword of the Lictor & The Citadel of the Autarch. Orb Books, 1994.

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Innes, Matthew. Introduction to early medieval Western Europe, 300-900: The sword, the plough and the book. Routledge, 2007.

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Westphal, Herbert. Die Zweihandschwerter und Ringpanzer der Hornschen Schlachtschwertierer. W. Hütte, 1993.

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Aleksić, Marko. Mediaeval Swords from Southeastern Europe: Material from 12th to 15th Century. M. Aleksić, 2007.

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Aleksić, Marko. Mediaeval Swords from Southeastern Europe: Material from 12th to 15th Century. M. Aleksić, 2007.

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Schulze-Dörrlamm, Mechthild. Das Reichsschwert: Ein Herrschaftszeichen des Saliers Heinrich IV. und des Welfen Otto IV. : mit dem Exkurs Der Verschollene Gürtel Kaiser Ottos IV. J. Thorbecke, 1995.

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Pinter, Zeno Karl. Spada şi sabia medievală în Transilvania şi Banat (secolele IX-XIV). 2nd ed. Muzeul Naţional Brukenthal, 2007.

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Book chapters on the topic "Medieval sword"

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Doubleday, Simon R. "Dying by the Sword." In How Medieval Europe was Ruled. Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003213239-2.

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Klimek, Kimberly, Pamela L. Troyer, Sarah Davis-Secord, and Bryan C. KeEne. "The Sword and the Pen." In Global Medieval Contexts 500–1500. Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315102771-5.

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Le Mauff, Julien. "The Sword of God." In Miracles, Political Authority and Violence in Medieval and Early Modern History. Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003168294-7.

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Karchner, Kate Waggoner. "The Sword and the Pen." In Islam and Papal Power in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Routledge, 2025. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003385332-5.

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Alberi, Mary. "‘The Sword Which You Hold in Your Hand’: Alcuin’s Exegesis of the Two Swords and the Lay Miles Christi." In Medieval Church Studies. Brepols Publishers, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/m.mcs-eb.3.3559.

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Yolen, Jane. "Sewing the Nettle Shirt, Pulling the Sword." In Literary Cultures and Medieval and Early Modern Childhoods. Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14211-7_24.

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Beougher, David. "“More Savage than the Sword”: Logistics in the Medieval Atlantic Theater of War." In Studies in the Medieval Atlantic. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137062390_7.

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Savage, Anne. "The Grave, the Sword, and the Lament: Mourning for the Future in Beowulf." In Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe. Brepols Publishers, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/m.tcne-eb.3.2598.

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Neuschel, Kristen B. "Swords and Oral Culture in the Early Middle Ages." In Living by the Sword. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501753336.003.0002.

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This chapter discusses the relationship between swords and oral culture in the early Middle Ages. It sketches the history of the manufacture of early medieval swords, then looks at evidence of those swords' symbolic lives revealed by archaeological finds, namely grave goods and the reconstruction of rituals that accompanied their deposit. The chapter then considers written evidence of swords, particularly in early wills that record both the bequeathing but also the prior circulation of a sword among allies and kin. Finally, it turns to literature, to Beowulf and its near-contemporary, The Batt
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"The Sword in the Stone." In A Medieval Storybook. Cornell University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/9780801468346-003.

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Conference papers on the topic "Medieval sword"

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Segebade, Chr. "Edward’s sword? – A non-destructive study of a medieval king’s sword." In APPLICATION OF ACCELERATORS IN RESEARCH AND INDUSTRY: Twenty-Second International Conference. AIP, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4802361.

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Плавинский, Н. А. "Details of Blade Weapons from the Excavations of the Medieval Drutsk." In Военная археология. Сборник материалов научного семинара. Crossref, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.25681/iaras.2018.978-5-94375-241-4.58-66.

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Древнерусский город Друцк (сейчас Толочинский район Витебской области Республики Беларусь) впервые упоминается под 1078 г. В древнерусское время Друцк был одним из наиболее зна- чительных городских центров Полоцкой земли. В ходе раскопок Друцка была собрана достаточно представительная коллекция вооружения. В данном сообщении рассматриваются немногочислен- ные, но крайне интересные находки деталей клинкового оружия, а именно: две детали рукоятей мечей, перекрестье сабли, целый и фрагментированный наконечники ножен мечей. The Old Rusian town Drutsk (present-day Talachyn district of Vitebsk regio
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Lobach, Daniil. "Medieval Sources of the Modern Symbolic Meaning of the Sword." In Proceedings of the International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Ecological Studies (CESSES 2018). Atlantis Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/cesses-18.2018.172.

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Dimitrijević, Milan S. "O NOVČARSTVU KRALjA MILUTINA." In Kralj Milutin i doba Paleologa: istorija, književnost, kulturno nasleđe. Publishing House of the Eparchy of Šumadija of the Serbian Orthodox Church - "Kalenić", 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.46793/6008-065-5.413d.

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Serbian medieval coinage has a great number of species and variants, with interesting and imaginative representations. The first Serbian medieval coins ap- peared during the reign of King Radoslav (1228-1234), and were coined by dif- ferent kings, nobles and towns during around 230 years, until the last ones, dur- ing the reign of Lazar Djurdjević (1456-1458). King Milutin's monetary emis- sions were numerous during his long and successfull reign from 1282 to 1321. Concerning his coinage there are some uncertainties in attribution of some coins. Additionally, exist different divisions of his c
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