Arms and Armour

Arms and Armour: Journal of the Royal Armouries

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In 2004, the Royal Armouries Yearbook was relaunched as Arms & Armour: a peer-reviewed academic journal. It aims to encourage and publish serious research in the field of arms and armour, from scholars – both professional and amateur – based around the world. Its areas of study are multi-disciplinary in approach and content, and include, but are not limited to, the history, development, use, decoration and display of arms and armour throughout history. Arms & Armour is edited under the auspices of the Royal Armouries, the UK’s national museum of arms and armour, alongside an international Editorial Board comprising many of the leading experts in the field. Arms & Armour is published twice a year in spring and autumn and also includes reviews of recently published books, and announcements and accounts of seminars, conferences and events.

Gladius

Gladius

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Gladius is the most important Spanish scholarly journal devoted to the study of Ancient and Medieval Weapons, Military History, Warfare and Cultural Life in Europe, America and the East. It is an annually published scientific journal subsidized and supervised by the Hoffmeyer Institute for the Study of Ancient Weapons of the CSIC Institute of Archaeology of Mérida in the framework of a patronage made up by CSIC, Junta de Extremadura, Diputación de Cáceres, National Heritage, Caja de Extremadura and the Municipal Council of Jaraíz de la Vera. Gladius covers the following subjects: Arms, Military History and Polemology, from the earliest times until the end of the 18th century, mainly in the Iberian Peninsula, Europe, Islam and the Americas, although other contributions will be considered. It also contains a section on scientific discussion and reviews. Gladius is indexed in Web of Science (Thomson-ISI) A & HCI, SCOPUS, ERIH Plus, REDIB and DOAJ. Gladius…

Talantov S. V.

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Information about the author Sergey V. Talantov – private researcher in the field of Caucasian and Russian weapons of the late XVII – early XX centuries (Moscow, Russia). All of author’s articles Dragoon Office Cavalry Sword – the Golden Weapon of Emperor Alexander III A Dismountable Dagger by Geurk Eliarov from Tiflis On the Dagger belonged to Timothy Jaschik, the Bodyguard Cossack in the Emperor Nikolas II and the Empress Maria Fjodorovna Service French-language Marks of Blade Smiths from Kazi-Kumukh (Dagestan) in the 19th Century Kabardian Craftsmen in the XVIII Century: Production and Decoration of Arms Arms Production in Adjaro-Gurian region in the end of 18th – early 20th Century‎ On blades of daggers and shashkas used by the Terek Cossack Host in the late 19th to early 20th centuries

Chubinsky A. N.

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Information about the author Aleksandr N. Chubinsky – research associate of the Kremlin Armory of the Moscow Kremlin Museums, the curator of the collection of firearms and pole weapons (Moscow, Russia). All of author’s articles Saber Blades and Pole Arms with “Rolling Pearls” in the Collection of the Moscow Kremlin Museums On the Inventory of Boris Godunov’s Weapon Treasury. The year of 1588 of the Moscow Kremlin Museums The Barrel Department and the Kremlin Armoury. Military Arms Manufacture at the Moscow Velvet Yard in 1700–1707

Schindler O. V.

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Information about the author Oleg V. Schindler – the student of the Institute for European, russian and Eurasian Studies and research associate of the Centre for European Studies of Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada). Author of several works on Russian armor of the XVI century. Research interests: medieval armor, warfare in Russia in the XVI century, the history of Ukraine, Russia and Belarus, the national historical myths of the Eastern Slavs (Ottawa, Canada). All of author’s articles Plated Chain Mails from Count Sheremetev’s Collection

Saber Blades and Pole Arms with “Rolling Pearls” in the Collection of the Moscow Kremlin Museums

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Chubinsky A. (2016). Sabel’nye klinki i drevkovoe oruzhie s «zhemchuzhinami» v sobranii muzeev Moskovskogo Kremlja [Saber Blades and Pole Arms with “Rolling Pearls” in the Collection of the Moscow Kremlin Museums]. Istoricheskoe oruzhievedenie [Weapons History Journal], № 3, pp. 86 — 101. Chubinsky A. Abstract: The paper is devoted to a group of cold weapons reposited in the Armoury Chamber of the Moscow Kremlin museums. These are saber blades and spear heads that were provided or used to be provided with “rolling pearls” inserted to the fullers, two iron-cut maces, and an axe which because of the audible sound of clattering elements inside, on the author’s opinion, could be corresponded to the weapons with “rolling pearls”. The author states the weapons with “rolling pearls” to have been made in Russia in the first half-first third of the 17th century while the range of their types was as wide as it…

Lucca and crescent sign

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Lenz E. (2016). Lucca and crescent sign. Zeitschrift für Historische Waffenkunde. VIII Band. ¾ Heft. Leipzig, 1918. (Russ. ed.: Lukka i znak polumesjaca. Istoricheskoe oruzhievedenie [Weapons History Journal], № 3, pp. 113 — 121. Lenz E.   Download article in Russian

Plated Chain Mails from Count Sheremetev’s Collection

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Schindler O. (2016). Kol’chato-plastinchatye dospehi iz kollekcii Sheremeteva [Plated Chain Mails from Count Sheremetev’s Collection]. Istoricheskoe oruzhievedenie [Weapons History Journal], № 3, pp. 102 — 112. Schindler O. Abstract: Plated chain mail is an armour made of metal plates connected with separate rings and ring chains. This type of armour often fitted with mail sleeves and laps was widespread in Rus in the 16th-17th centuris. The specificity of its construction permitted more or less effective combination of the mail flexibility and the hardness of coat-of-plates. Today about two hundred samples of the armour type of both Russian and foreign (oriental) origin are reposited in the Russian arms and armour storages. The paper is devoted to five plated chain mails from the private collection of count Sheremetev. These pieces are a perfect example of the armour used in the times of Moscow Rus. Today they are not at display and kept out…

Dragoon Office Cavalry Sword – the Golden Weapon of Emperor Alexander III

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Talantov S. (2016). Oficerskaja dragunskaja shashka, Zolotoe oruzhie Imperatora Aleksandra III [Dragoon Office Cavalry Sword – the Golden Weapon of Emperor Alexander III]. Istoricheskoe oruzhievedenie [Weapons History Journal], № 3, pp. 76 — 85. Talantov S. Abstract: The article tells the story of a cavalry sword, presented by the officers of the 13th Life Grenaderial Erivan regiment to Alexander III who was its most august colonel in chief. The weapon was presented to the Emperor on his visit to Caucasus. This is the cavalry sword mounted with the guard of the dragoon office cavalry sword of the 1881 pattern. Its blade demonstrating an unspecified for cavalry swords type was forged earlier and according to the available sources used to belong to the family of Mengrelian ruling princes of Dadiani. The scabbard hasn’t preserved. After the revolution of 1917 the cavalry sword was lost and only several years ago the author…

Scientific Legacy by Eduard von Lenz

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Samgin S. (2016). Nauchnoe nasledie Jeduarda Jeduardovicha Lenca [Scientific Legacy by Eduard von Lenz]. Istoricheskoe oruzhievedenie [Weapons History Journal], № 3, pp. 63 — 75. Samgin S. Abstract: Eduard von Lenz is one of the outstanding weapon historians who lived in Russia at the end of the 19th – the beginning of the 20th century. He was interested in a good variety of themes in the field of the weapon studying, starting from the systematization and description of the Russian collections of weapons to the analysis of arms and armour found during archaeological excavations. He studied the weapon manufacturing centers as well and popularized the weaponology in general. Today most of his papers are unknown even for the specialists. The most important period of Lenz’s creative life was the time from 1899 to 1919 when he served as the curator of the imperial collection of arms at the Hermitage. This collection…

Shashkas of Afghanistan

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Miloserdov D. (2016). Afganskaja shashka [Shashkas of Afghanistan]. Istoricheskoe oruzhievedenie [Weapons History Journal], № 3, pp. 48 — 62. Miloserdov D. Abstract: The article is devoted to shashkas that used to be very popular on the territory of present-day Afghanistan. The article presents the analysis of the primary sources containing references by different observers to the ways of shsashka usage in the above mentioned region. Using indirect indicators the author substantiates shashkas to have been used in Afghanistan as early as from the beginning of the 19th century and refered to under the name of “shashka” already in the second half of the 19th century. Three main types of shashkas used in Afghaistan were pointed out in the article. The first one is the so called Central Asian shashka which is marked with wide and slightly curved blade. The handle of this shashka was usually made of two horn or bone…