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Corwin Purkey
Location: kingman kansas Joined: 25 Jul 2007
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 Posted: Wed 25 Jul, 2007 11:17 pm Post subject: can anyone give me useful information on mongolian armor? |
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i'm looking for sites or pictures pertaining to mongolian armor or any information i can use in making authentic peices of mongolian armor. please message me if you can help. thank you.
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Hisham Gaballa
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Corwin Purkey
Location: kingman kansas Joined: 25 Jul 2007
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thank you ill look into it
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Danny Grigg
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Hisham
Have you read the following book?
Arms and Armour of the Nomads of the Great Steppe in the Times of Mongol Expansion (12th - 14th Centuries)
by Witold Swietoslawski
ISBN 838587402X
If so what's your opinion?
Is it the most comprehensive book on mongol arms and armour including good quality photos and illustrations?
Danny
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Hisham Gaballa
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| Danny Grigg wrote: | Hisham
Have you read the following book?
Arms and Armour of the Nomads of the Great Steppe in the Times of Mongol Expansion (12th - 14th Centuries)
by Witold Swietoslawski
ISBN 838587402X
If so what's your opinion?
Is it the most comprehensive book on mongol arms and armour including good quality photos and illustrations?
Danny |
Never heard of it, but now that you've mentioned it, I want it! 
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Lafayette C Curtis
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Well, if you don't mind sites where the information is mostly good but sometimes has to be taken with a spoonful of salt, maybe the Silk Roads Design Armoury--a producer of replica Central Asian armor and the like--can be a decent starting place:
http://www.geocities.com/normlaw/
And then, this page:
http://www.umich.edu/~eng415/topics/war/Islamic_Armour.html
has an interesting illustration from David Nicolle's book that mentions some Mongolian armor terminology. You're probably better off buying the book altogether, though.
And somehow, I suspect you'll be able to find something in this site's own Bookshelf:
http://www.myArmoury.com/books/
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Peter Lyon
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| Danny Grigg wrote: | Hisham
Have you read the following book?
Arms and Armour of the Nomads of the Great Steppe in the Times of Mongol Expansion (12th - 14th Centuries)
by Witold Swietoslawski
ISBN 838587402X
If so what's your opinion?
Is it the most comprehensive book on mongol arms and armour including good quality photos and illustrations?
Danny |
I have a copy, so can help a bit. I haven't read it in depth, but it is 144 pages, of which 110 are text. The text gives a good overview of the equipment. The pictures are mostly line drawings, either archaeological finds or a few artist's impressions of equipped Mongols, with only a couple of photos, and to me were a bit of a disappointment. If you want to learn the history a bit better, it is good, but if you want good artist's reconstructions, it isn't very useful.
I can't recall the title, but a few years ago one of the museums (the Met?) published a book on the arms and armour of Nepal, which had some great photos of medieval equipment, and excellent descriptions. Maybe someone else here has it or knows it.
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Felix Wang
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Yes, the Met published the book which Hisham referred to: "Warriors of the Himalayas" about the arms and armour of Tibet. A very fine work on a hitherto obscure subject.
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