Medieval Arms and Armour

Moffet's Medieval Arms and Armour: A Sourcebook is hopeful. It hopes to spark further scholarship, which this writer also hopes, and thinks likely. This generation of armor scholars, such as Nicholas Dupras, author of an influential PhD thesis, ""Medieval Armourers and Their Workshops"" (2012), now has a compass, carefully crafted by Moffet with plenty of leads for avenues for graduate and professional research. * H-NET REVIEWS * Anyone interested in this field of study simply must own this book, and they will find themselves consulting it over and over again. No need for free shelf space, Moffat's sourcebook will best be kept close at hand on your desk or workbench. * HISTOFAKT.DE * [An] important contribution to the scholarly study of arms and armor, which provides a model for further publications that expand the overall base of information available for future detailed studies. -- FRANCIA Ralph Moffat, Curator of European Arms and Armour at Glasgow Museums, has produced an invaluable work of reference in his Medieval Arms and Armour: A Sourcebook. -- Oliver Creighton * Medieval Archaeology * Moffat's anthology is supposed to focus on arms and armour, and so it does. In doing so, however, it enables the people themselves to speak, and to be seen and heard by us. It is the people who stand out-striving, worrying, scheming, buying and selling, despairing, winning, losing, and just getting by. In other words, an interest in medieval arms and armour is not the only reason for reading this book. -- Lesley Coote, University of Hull * STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE TEACHING (SMART) *