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Books About Armor

Books About Armor

This list is alphabetical by title. We also have the list alphabetical by author.
For more information about armor for the Society for Creative Anacrhonism, go to Ervald's SCA Armor Pages. Reccomended titles are maked with a *
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2,500 Years of European Helmets: 800 B.C.-1700 A.D>br> by Howard M. Curtis
The Age of Chivalry (Arms and Uniforms, Part 1)
by Liliane Funcken, F. Funcken
The Age of Chivalry (Arms and Uniforms, Part 2)
by Liliane Funcken, F. Funcken
The Age of Chivalry (Arms and Uniforms, Part 3)
by Liliane Funcken, F. Funcken
Antique Arms and Armor
Frederick Wilkinson
The Archaeology of Weapons : Arms and Armour from Prehistory to the Age of Chivalry
by R. Ewart Oakeshott
Archaiologia on archaic Greek body armour
by Eero Jarva
The Armor Book
by Michael Berenstain
Armor From Ancient to Modern Times
by Peter Klucina
Armor Yesterday and Today
by Karin N. Mango
Armour (Fact Finders)
by Hugh Gregor, Angus McBride, Dick Eastland
Armourers (Medieval Craftsmen Series)
by Matthias Pfaffenbichler
The Armour and Arms of Henry VIII
by Thom Richardson
Armour and Weapons
by Charles John Ffoulkes
Armour and weapons
by Paul Martin
Armour and Weapons in the Middle Ages
by Charles Henry Ashdown
The Armour of Imperial Rome
by H. Russell Robinson
*Armour from the Battle of Wisby
by Bengt Thordeman, Brian R. Price, Bo E. Ingelmark
*The Armourer and His Craft : From the XIth to the XVIth Century
by Charles Ffoulkes
The Armouries of the Tower of London
by Howard L. Blackmore
Armours of Henry VIII (Treasures of the Tower)
by Henry Russell Robinson
Arms and Armour (Black's Junior Reference Books, 13)
by Frederick Wilkinson
Arms and armor (Knowledge through color)
by Frederick Wilkinson
Arms and Armor Annual Volume 1
by Robert Held
Arms and Armor : A Pictorial Archive from Nineteenth-Century Sources
by Carol Belanger Grafton
Arms and Armor (DK Eyewitness Books)
by DK Publishing
Arms and Armor: Essays
by Stephen V. Grancsay
Arms-Armor: From the Atelier of Ernst Schmidt, Munich
by Andrew E. Mowbray
Arms and Armor in the Art Institute of Chicago: In the Art Institute of Chicago
by Walter I. Karcheski
Arms and Armor in Colonial America, 1526-1783
by Harold L. Peterson
Arms and Armor: Notable Acquisitions, 1991-2002
by Stuart W. Pyhrr, Morihiro Ogawa, Donald J. Larocca
Arms & Armour: At the Jaipur Court, The Royal Collection
by Robert Elgood
Arms and Armour of the Greeks
by Anthony M. Snodgrass
Arms & Armour in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen: Volume I: European Armour
by A. V. B. Norman (Author), Ian Eaves
* Arms and Armor of the Medieval Knight
by David Edge, John Miles Paddock
Arms and Armor of the Pilgrims
by Harold L. Peterson
Arms and Armor (Pointers)
by Chris Gravett, Peter Sarson, Christopher Rothero
Arms and Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art
by Stephen N. Fliegel
Arms and Armor (Then and Now)
by Adrian Gilbert, James Field
Arms and Armour, from the 9th to the 17th Century
by Paul Martin
Arms and Armor of the Samurai: The History of Weaponry in Ancient Japan
by Ian Bottomley
Arms and Armour in Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Medieval Military Library)
by Charles Boutell, M. P. Lacombe
Arms and Armour in Britain
by Alan Borg
Arms and Armour in the Age of Chivalry
by Aldo G. Cimarelli
Arms & Armour in Tudor & Stuart London
by Martin Rivington Holmes
Arms and Armor of Caucasus (English and Russian Edition)
by Kirill A. Rivkin
Arms and Armor of the Crusading Era, 1050-1350: Islam, Eastern Europe and Asia
by David C. Nicolle
Arms and Armour of the Crusading Era, 1050-1350: Western Europe and the Crusader States
by David Nicolle
Arms and Armour of the Nomads of the Great Steppe in the Times of the Mongol Expansion (12th to 14th cents) (Studies on the History of the Ancient & Mediaeval Art of Warfare)
by Witold Swietoslawski
Arms and Armour of the Western World
by Bruno Thomas
Arms and Armour : the Treasures of the Hungarian National Museum
by Ferenc Temesvári
Art of Chivalry European Art and Armor from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
by Helmut Nickel, et al
THE ARTS OF WAR. Arms and Armour of the 7th to 19th centuries (The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, VOL XXI)
by David Alexander, Nasser D Khalili
Barbarian Warriors: Saxons, Vikings, Normans (Brassey's History of Uniforms)
by Dan Shadrake, Susanna Shadrake, Richard Hook
Brassey's Books of Body Armor
by Robert C. Woosnam-Savage, Ray Hutchins, Robert C. Woosnam Savage, Anthony Hall
Chain Mail Armored Knight
by Claude Lamontagne
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Charge!: Weapons and Warfare in Ancient Times (Buried Worlds)
by Rivka Gonen
A Companion to Medieval Arms and Armour
by David Nicolle
The Compendium of Weapons Armour and Castles
by Matthew Balent
The Complete Encyclopedia of Arms and Weapons: The Most Comprehensive Reference Work Ever Published on Arms and Armor
by Claude Blair, Leonid Tarassuk
Die Zweihandschwerter und Ringpanzer der Hornschen Schlachtschwertierer
by Herbert Westphal
The English Civil War (Brassey's History of Uniforms)
by Philipp J. C. Elliot-Wright, Christa Hook
English weapons & warfare, 449-1660
by A. Vesey B. Norman
European Arms and Armor
by Charles Ashdown
European Helmets, 1450-1650
by Stuart W. Pyhrr
European Weapons and Armour: From the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution
by R. Ewart Oakeshott
Eyewitness: Arms & Armor
by Michele Byam, Michelle Byam, Dave King
Fine Arms and Armor: Treasures in the Dresden Collection
by Johannes Schobel
A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor in All Countries and in All Times, Together With Some Closely Related Subjects
by G. C. Stone
The Gods of War: Sacred Imagery and the Decoration of Arms and Armor
by Donald J. Larocca, Metropolitan Museum of Art Staff
Guide to Arms and Armor (Explorer Guides)
by Andrew Kershaw
Heroic Armor of the Italian Renaissance Filippo Negroli and His Contemporaries
by Stuart W. Pyhrr, Jose-A Godoy
An Historical Guide to Arms & Armor
by Stephen Bull, Tony North
The History of Chivalry and Armor: With Descriptions of the Feudal System, the Practices of Knighthood, the Tournament, and Trials by Single Combat
by Franz Kottenkamp
Heraldry and Armor of the Middle Ages
by Marvin H. Pakula
A History of Body Armor
by Daniel D. Feaser and Harold Leslie Peterson
Imperial Austria: Treasures of Art, Arms & Armor from the State of Styria
by Peter Krenn, Walter J., Jr. Karcheski
Islamic Arms and Armour
by Robert Elgood
Islamic Arms and Armor: in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
by David Alexander, Stuart W. Pyhrr, Will Kwiatkowski
Islamic arms and armour of Muslim India
by Syed Zafar Haider
Italian Armor for Princely Courts: Renaissance Armor from the Trupin Family Trust and the George F. Harding Collection, the Art Institute of Chicago
by Leonid Tarassuk
Knights & Armor (Worldwise)
by Daisy Kerr, Mark Bergin
A Knight and His Armor
by R. Ewart Oakeshott
Knight in Armor Sticker Soldier
by A. G. Smith
* Knights and Armor Coloring Book
by A. G. Smith
Knights in Armor (Living History)
by John Clare
Knights in Armor
by Shirley Glubok
Knights in Shining Armor
by Gail Gibbons
The Knight and the Blast Furnace: A History of the Metallurgy of Armour in the Middle Ages & the Early Modern Period (History of Warfare, 12)
by Alan Williams
La evolución del armamento medieval en el Reino Castellano-Leonés y Al-Andalus (siglos XII-XIV)
by Alvaro Soler del Campo
Armes et armures dela Couronne au musée de l'armée
by Jean-Pierre Reverseau
Le costume, l'armure et les armes au temps de la chevalerie
by Liliane Funcken
The Marshall Cavendish Illustrated Guide to Armor
by Christopher Chant, John Batchelor
Masterpieces of European Arms and Armour in the Wallace Collection
by Tobias Capwell, David Edge
Medieval and Renaissance splendor : arms and armor from the Higgins Armory Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts, and works of art from the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida : an exhibition at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, March 2-April 22, 1984
by Cynthia Duval
The Medieval Armour From Rhodes
by Walter Karcheski, Thom Richardson, Paula Turner
Medieval Costume, Armour and Weapons
by Eduard Wagner, Zoroslav DrobnÃ, Jan DurdÃk
Medieval Military Costume (Europa Militaria Special, 8)
by Gerry Embleton
Medieval Military Dress, 1066-1500 (Blandford Colour Series)
by Christopher Rothero
The Medieval Soldier: 15th Century Campaign Life Recreated in Colour Photographs
by Gary Embleton, John Howe
Medieval Warfare
by H.W. Koch
Medieval Warrior: Weapons, Technology, And Fighting Techniques, Ad 1000-1500
by Martin Dougherty
An outline of arms and armour in England from the early Middle Ages to the Civil War
by James Gow Mann
Phaidon Guide to Antique Weapons and Armour
by Robert Wilkinson-Latham
Princely Armor in the Age of Dürer: A Renaissance Masterpiece in the Philadelphia Museum of Art
by Pierre Terjanian
The Real Fighting Stuff: Arms and Armour at Glasgow Museums
Tobias Capwell, Graham Turner
Reconstructing Ancient Linen Body Armor: Unraveling the Linothorax Mystery
by Gregory S. Aldrete, Scott M. Bartell, Alicia Aldrete
A Record of European Armour & Arms Through Seven Centuries Vol. 1
by Guy F. Laking, Baron De Cosson
A Record of European Armour & Arms Through Seven Centuries Vol. 2
by Sir Guy Francis Laking
A Record of European Armour and Arms Through Seven Centuries, Volume III
by Guy Francis Laking
A record of European armour and arms through seven centuries Volume 4
by Guy Francis Laking, Francis Henry Cripps-Day
A Record of European Armour and Arms Through Seven Centuries; Volume 5
by Guy Francis Sir Laking 1875-1919, Francis Henry Cripps-Day
Resplendence of the Spanish Monarchy: Renaissance Tapestries and Armor from the Patrimonio Nacional
by Antonio Dominguez Ortiz, Jose A. Godoy, Concha Carretero
Roman Army: Wars of the Empire (Brassey's History of Uniforms)
by Graham Sumner, Graham Turner, Tim Newark
Roman Body Armour
by Hilary Travis
Shiny Shapes: Arms and Armor from the Zeughaus of Graz
by Landesmusem Joanneum
Samurai Arms and Armor (Dover Fashion Coloring Book)
by Ming-Ju Sun
A Short History of Costume & Armour : Two Volumes Bound as One
by Francis M. Kelly, Randolph Schwabe
Studies in European Arms and Armor: The C. Otto Von Kienbusch Collection in the Philadelphia Museum of Art
by Claude Blair (Editor)
Techniques Of Medieval Armour Reproduction: The 14th Century
by Brian Price
Weapons and Armor
by Harold M. Hart
Ultimate Sticker Book: Arms and Armor
by Helena Spiteri
Uzbrojenie koczowników Wielkiego Stepu w czasach ekspansji Mongo±ów : XII-XIV w
by Witold Swietos±awski
Uzbrojenie w Polsce sredniowiecznej, 1350-1450 (Polish Edition)
Uzbrojenie w Polsce sredniowiecznej,: 1450-1500 (Polish Edition)
Warriors & Warlords: The Art of Angus McBride
by Martin Windrow, Angus McBride
Warriors and Weapons of Early Times in Color
by Niels M. Saxtorph
Warriors and Their Weapons Around the Time of the Crusades: Relationships Between Byzantium, the West, and the Islamic World (Variorum Collected Studies Series, 756)
by David Nicolle
Warriors and Worthies: Arms and Armor Through the Ages
by Helmut Nickel
Weapon: A Visual History of Arms and Armor
by Roger Ford, R.G. Grant
Weapons and Warfare in Ancient Times (Digging Up the Past)
by Richard L. Currier, Rivka Gonen
Weapons and Warriors
by Frederick John Wilkinson
Young Person's Guide to European Arms and Armor in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
by Rosanne Wasserman, Edith Watts
Zbroje kolcze z gdanskiego dworu Artusa : z tradycji turniejowych w Polsce
by Antoni Romuald Chodynski

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