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Quipment of Georgios Maniakes and His Army According to the Skylitzes Matritensis
ΠΟΡΦΥΡΑ da un’idea di Nicola Bergamo “Saranno come fiori che noi coglieremo nei prati per abbellire l’impero d’uno splendore incomparabile. Come specchio levigato di perfetta limpidezza, prezioso ornamento che noi collocheremo al centro del Palazzo” La prima rivista on-line che tratta in maniera completa il periodo storico dei Romani d’Oriente Anno 2005 Dicembre Supplemento n 4 A Prôtospatharios, Magistros, and Strategos Autokrator of 11th cent. : the equipment of Georgios Maniakes and his army according to the Skylitzes Matritensis miniatures and other artistic sources of the middle Byzantine period. a cura di: Dott. Raffaele D’Amato A Prôtospatharios, Magistros, and Strategos Autokrator of 11th cent. the equipment of Georgios Maniakes and his army according to the Skylitzes Matritensis miniatures and other artistic sources of the middle Byzantine period. At the beginning of the 11th century Byzantium was at the height of its glory. After the victorious conquests of the Emperor Basil II (976-1025), the East-Roman1 Empire regained the sovereignty of the Eastern Mediterranean World and extended from the Armenian Mountains to the Italian Peninsula. Calabria, Puglia and Basilicata formed the South-Italian Provinces, called Themata of Kalavria and Laghouvardhia under the control of an High Imperial Officer, the Katepano. 2But the Empire sought at one time to recover Sicily, held by Arab Egyptian Fatimids, who controlled the island by means of the cadet Dynasty of Kalbits.3 The Prôtospatharios4 Georgios Maniakes was appointed in 1038 by the -
Protective Armor Engineering Design
PROTECTIVE ARMOR ENGINEERING DESIGN PROTECTIVE ARMOR ENGINEERING DESIGN Magdi El Messiry Apple Academic Press Inc. Apple Academic Press Inc. 3333 Mistwell Crescent 1265 Goldenrod Circle NE Oakville, ON L6L 0A2 Palm Bay, Florida 32905 Canada USA USA © 2020 by Apple Academic Press, Inc. Exclusive worldwide distribution by CRC Press, a member of Taylor & Francis Group No claim to original U.S. Government works International Standard Book Number-13: 978-1-77188-787-8 (Hardcover) International Standard Book Number-13: 978-0-42905-723-6 (eBook) All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electric, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and re- cording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publish- er or its distributor, except in the case of brief excerpts or quotations for use in reviews or critical articles. This book contains information obtained from authentic and highly regarded sources. Reprinted material is quoted with permission and sources are indicated. Copyright for individual articles remains with the authors as indicated. A wide variety of references are listed. Reasonable efforts have been made to publish reliable data and information, but the authors, editors, and the publisher cannot assume responsibility for the validity of all materials or the consequences of their use. The authors, editors, and the publisher have attempted to trace the copyright holders of all material reproduced in this publication and apologize to copyright holders if permission to publish in this form has not been obtained. -
Bankside Costume-Book
Warn® THE lNKSID' BOOK m /#- BANKSIDE COSTUME-BOOK HENRY VIII Bankside Costume-Book - 4& <• j. WRITTEN ^ND ILLUSTRATED BY MELIGENT STONE WELLS GARDNER, DARTON & CO. LTD. At 3 & 4 Pater- And also at 44 noster Buildings, Victoria Street, London, E.G. 4 London, S.W. 1 117990 G m Printed in Great Britain CONTENTS CHAP. PAGB LIST OF SPECIAL CHARACTERS . vi LIST OF PLAYS AND THEIR PERIODS . vii A NOTE ON ARRANGEMENT . xii I GENERAL DIRECTIONS AND PRACTICAL HINTS I II LEGENDARY BRITISH PERIOD . .12 III GREEK AND ROMAN DRESS . -19 IV ENGLISH THIRTEENTH CENTURY DRESS 40 V FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH CEN- TURIES : ENGLISH AND ITALIAN DRESS ...... 48 VI SIXTEENTH CENTURY DRESS, ENGLISH *. AND ITALIAN . • 74 VII ARMOUR, WEAPONS, JEWELLERY AND CROWNS . IO3 VIII ECCLESIASTICAL AND LEGAL DRESS . 131 IX MATERIALS, COLOURS, STENCILLING AND DYEING 141 X SOME SPECIAL CHARACTERS , . .15° GENERAL INDEX 167 INDEX OF CHARACTERS TREATED SPECIALLY IN CHAPTER X PAGE FAIRIES AND ELVES (INCLUDING MOTH, PEAS- BLOSSOM, MUSTARD-SEED, COBWEB AND puck) ^o^SS CALIBAN 155-156 SPIRITS ........ 156 GHOSTS 156 WITCHES 156 JESTERS, FOOLS, OR CLOWNS .... 156-159 ORIENTALS AND JEWS (INCLUDING SHYLOCK, JESSICA AND THE PRINCE OF MOROCCO) . 159-161 VIOLA AND SEBASTIAN 160-161 HERALDS, PURSUIVANTS, GARTER KING-AT- ARMS l6l -162 MASQUERS AND MORRIS DANCERS ... 162 DOGES, MAYORS, PEERS, DOCTORS . 162-163 SAILORS 163 WIDOWS 163 MAGICIANS, SOOTHSAYERS, PROPHETS (INCLUD- ING PROSPERO) 164-165 PROLOGUES, CHORUS, TIME .... 165 VI LIST OF PLAYS AND THEIR PERIODS AS YOU LIKE IT is covered by Chapter V CORIOLANUS ., HI CYMBELINE >> II HENRY IV »J V HENRY V >> V HENRY VII it VI JULIUS CESAR ,, HI KING JOHN it IV KING LEAR 1) II MACBETH J> II THE MERCHANT OF VENICE >> V A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM >> III MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING >> VI RICHARD II >> V RICHARD III . -
Rulebook Numen 4 2017 Credits Game Design Brian Bors Arjen-Wander Hiemstra
Rulebook Numen 4 2017 Credits Game Design Brian Bors Arjen-Wander Hiemstra Writing Brian Bors Arjen-Wander Hiemstra Visual Design Roos Schultheiss In addition, thanks to all other contributors. Copyright 2009-2017 Heimr and Contributors. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify the contents of this site under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is available in Appendix A. 2 Contents 1 Introduction 6 1.1 About this document . 6 2 Core Rules 7 2.1 Introduction . 7 2.2 Safety . 7 2.3 Game Progression . 9 2.4 Characters . 10 2.5 Combat . 12 2.6 Health . 14 2.7 Items . 15 3 Creating a Character 19 3.1 Character races . 19 3.2 Domains . 19 3.3 Skills and Conditions . 20 3.4 Items and Money . 20 4 Races 21 4.1 Asgardians . 21 4.2 Midgardians . 22 4.3 Utgardians . 23 4.4 Other Races . 24 5 Defence 27 5.1 Armour . 27 5.2 Shield . 31 5.3 Shield Skills . 34 5.4 Defensive Skills . 35 3 6 Armed Combat 39 6.1 Weapons . 39 6.2 Melee weapon skills . 47 6.3 Ranged Weapon Skills . 51 7 Battlefield Surgery 54 7.1 Stitching And Bandaging . 54 7.2 Stabilizing Patients . 56 7.3 Medical conditions . 63 8 The Marketplace 66 8.1 Craft and repair skills . 66 8.2 Crafting custom made items . -
Medieval Armour
Medieval Armour A Wikipedia Compilation by Michael A. Linton Contents 1 Components of medieval armour 1 1.1 Japanese analogues .......................................... 1 2 Great helm 3 2.1 History ................................................. 3 2.2 Decoration .............................................. 3 2.3 Contemporary reenactors ....................................... 5 2.4 Notes and references ......................................... 6 2.5 References ............................................... 6 2.6 External links ............................................. 6 3 Cervelliere 8 3.1 History ................................................ 9 3.2 Notes ................................................. 9 3.3 References .............................................. 9 3.4 External links ............................................. 9 4 Bascinet 10 4.1 Development .............................................. 10 4.1.1 Camails or aventails ...................................... 10 4.1.2 Protection for the face .................................... 10 4.2 Later evolution of the helmet ..................................... 11 4.2.1 Bevors and gorgets ...................................... 11 4.2.2 Great bascinet ......................................... 12 4.3 Historic use .............................................. 12 4.3.1 Use with the great helm .................................... 12 4.3.2 Later use ........................................... 12 4.3.3 Decline in use ......................................... 12 4.4 Notes -
Fantasy Roleplaying 4001
THIRD EDITION FANTASY ROLEPLAYING GAME DESIGN N. Robin Crossby Tom Dalgliesh 4001 Ross Epstein (order #4834448) 74.130.173.86 ERRATA TO 3.01 HârnMaster III CHARACTER 19 (Correction): Sidebar. Veteran ML should be BESTIARY 1 (corrections): ML80 (not ML90). Skills & Weapons, paragraph 2, line 2, describes 5p impact as CHARACTER 28 (Correction): Miltary Wages Table. Light “blunt impact of 5. It should read “point impact of 5”. Foot Molarin should be 42d and 504d. BESTIARY 2 (corrections): SKILLS 2 (clarification): Characters may begin selecting Aklash Strength should be 19 and Endurance 17. specialties when a skill reaches ML 40. The specialty skill is opened at the current group ML. Ilme Bite Impact should be 12P SKILLS 4 (clarification): Drawing OML reduced to SBx2. Nolah Unarmed Impact should be 4B COMBAT 3 (revision): Falchion edge reduced to 6 (from 7) Unicorn Awareness should be 68. and Bastard Sword edge increased to 7 (from 6). COMBAT 4 (revision): Kurbul armour protection values restored to B4 E5 P4 F3. COMBAT 19 (revision): Lankum END should be 18. CAMPAIGN 12 (correction): MARITIME ENCOUNTER TABLE is mislabeled as Highway Encounter. TREASURE 8 (omission): The WRITTEN WORK CONTENT table was accidently dropped from the sidebar. WRITTEN WORK CONTENT 01–04 Inventory, Census, or List 05–07 Law/Decree/Charter/Pardon 08–09 Military Orders/Strategy, etc. 10–12 Usurer’s and/or Promissory Note (redeeming may be hard) 13–15 Contract/Transaction Record 16–18 Spell Descriptions 19–21 Descriptions of artifacts, esoteric process, magical phenomenon, etc. 22–24 Alchemical Recipes/Treatise 25–26 Philosophical Treatise 27–29 Theological Treatise, Prayer, Ritual Invocation, etc.