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Author : Thomas Hastings
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1831
Category : Archery
ISBN : NYPL:33433066586565
Author : Thomas Hastings
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1356835074
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0461559900
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 882 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Archery
ISBN : IND:30000117661896
Author : Robin Hood (Legendary character)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1790
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0025229802
Author : Richard Wadge
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750967129
This book chronicles the overwhelming importance of the military archer in the late medieval period. The longbow played a central role in the English victory at the battles of Crecy and Agincourt. Completely undermining the supremacy of heavy cavalry, the longbow forced a wholesale reassessment of battlefield tactics. Richard Wadge explains what made England's longbow archers so devastating, detailing the process by which their formidable armament was manufactured and the conditions that produced men capable of continually drawing a bow under a tension of 100 pounds. Uniquely, Wadge looks at the economics behind the supply of longbows to the English army and the social history of the military archer. Crucially, what were the advantages of joining the first professional standing army in England since the days of the Roman conquest? Was it the pay, the booty, or the glory? With its painstaking analysis of contemporary records, Arrowstorm paints a vivid portrait of the life of a professional soldier in the war which forged the English national consciousness.
Author : Thomas ROBERTS (Toxophilite.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1801
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019720076
Author : Victoria and Albert Museum,Mildred Archer,Graham Parlett
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015029724955
Archer discusses the circumstances in which this type of painting evolved and describes and lists the Museum's collection according to the various regions in which it was produced: Andhra, Trichinopoly, Madras, Madura, Tanjore, Malabar and Coorg, Mysore, Murshidabad, Patna, Calcutta, Benares, Puri, Oudh, Delhi and Agra, the Punjab, Rajasthan, Western India, Nepal, Burma, Sri Lanka and Malacca. Many little-known styles of Company painting are described and illustrated,
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Archery
ISBN : IND:30000117666606
Author : Simon Needham
Publisher : Crowood
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-30
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781847976246
The Competitive Archer provides practical advice to archers showing them a path to success in their competition performance, taking them from keen weekend competitors to top athletes in the world arena.The book covers: How to set goals and then prioritize those goals; the nature of more serious competition in archery; making decisions about how much time an individual is able or wishes to give to the sport; how far that time will get them, and making the best use of limited time; planning training and competition schedules; more advanced training, shooting practices and techniques to speed up and increase improvement, and to evaluate progress; incorporating mental practices into training; fine-tuning of archery equipment; preparation for individual and team competitions. Although this book deals with success in archery, it shows that the path to success follows the same procedure in any endeavour. Essential reading for archers and coaches of all disciplines looking to take their performance to advanced levels. Includes advice and tips from top international and Olympic archers.Superbly illustrated with 260 colour photographs.Simon Needham has been involved in archery for forty years and has competed at Olympic and World Championship levels.
Author : Hugh David H. Soar,Joseph Gibbs
Publisher : Westholme Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 1594161267
A Complete Recreation of the Deadliest Medieval Arm Dominating medieval battlefields for more than two centuries but requiring long and arduous practice to command, the English war bow and its battle shaft are the symbols of the rise of British power in Europe. Despite being crafted for hundreds of years and wielded by generations of archers, no example of the war bow--the military version of the longbow--exists, outside of a single broken limb. Now for the first time, expert craftsmen use all available evidence including applied archaeology to unlock the secrets of the English war bow. Historian Hugh D. H. Soar is joined by Mark Stretton, master blacksmith, and Joseph Gibbs, bowyer, in order to demonstrate how a war bow and its associated arrow heads and shafts may have been constructed and used. In addition to showing the complete manufacture of a bow from tree selection to stringing and how specialized arrowheads were forged and attached to shafts, Secrets of the English War Bow provides information on the actual performance of the war bow, including the bow's effectiveness against various materials and, for the first time, its use against moving targets, since bows were often drawn against mounted soldiers. Armed with this new information, Soar provides an analysis of both successes and failures of the war bow in several important battles. Illustrated in color and black and white, Secrets of the English War Bow provides an invaluable service for those interested in medieval military history, archery, and technology.
Author : A. P. Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Wessex Archaeology
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781874350620
Found a few kilometres from Stonehenge, the graves of the Amesbury Archer and the Boscombe Bowmen date to the 24th century BC and are two of the earliest Bell Beaker graves in Britain. The Boscombe Bowmen is a collective burial and the Amesbury Archer is a single burial but isotope analyses suggest that both were the graves of incomers to Wessex. The objects placed in both graves have strong continental connections and the metalworking tool found in the grave of the Amesbury Archer may explain why his mourners afforded him one of the most well-furnished burials yet found in Europe. This excavation report contains a series of wide-ranging studies and scientific analyses by an array of experts and a discussion of the graves within their British and continental European contexts.
Author : Robin Winks
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2001-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191647697
The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records. From the founding of colonies in North America and the West Indies in the seventeenth century to the reversion of Hong Kong to China at the end of the twentieth, British imperialism was a catalyst for far-reaching change. The Oxford History of the British Empire as a comprehensive study helps us to understand the end of Empire in relation to its beginning, the meaning of British imperialism for the ruled as well as for the rulers, and the significance of the British Empire as a theme in world history. This fifth and final volume shows how opinions have changed dramatically over the generations about the nature, role, and value of imperialism generally, and the British Empire more specifically. The distinguished team of contributors discuss the many and diverse elements which have influenced writings on the Empire: the pressure of current events, access to primary sources, the creation of relevant university chairs, the rise of nationalism in former colonies, decolonization, and the Cold War. They demonstrate how the study of empire has evolved from a narrow focus on constitutional issues to a wide-ranging enquiry about international relations, the uses of power, and impacts and counterimpacts between settler groups and native peoples. The result is a thought-provoking cultural and intellectual inquiry into how we understand the past, and whether this understanding might affect the way we behave in the future.
Author : Richard Wadge
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752483573
How was it that ordinary men in medieval England and Wales became such skilled archers that they defeated noble knights in battle after battle? The archer in medieval England became a forerunner of John Bull as a symbol of the spirit of the ordinary Englishman. He had his own popular literature that left us a romantic version of the lives and activities of outlaws and poachers such as Robin Hood. This remarkable development began 150 years after the traumatic events of the Norman Conquest transformed the English way of life, in ways that were almost never to the benefit of the English. This book is the first account of the way ordinary men used bows and arrows in their day-to-day lives, and the way that their skills became recognised by the kings of England as invaluable in warfare.
Author : India Office Library,Mildred Archer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Art, English
ISBN : UCAL:$B601604
