Avar-Age Polearms and Edged Weapons. Classification, Typology, Chronology and Technology

388 CHAPTER 7 The rate of burials with polearms and edged weapons presents a similar dynamic, though the number of swords is muc ...

Armament And Society 389 5 Conclusions The definition of the so-called ‘armed stratum’ in the social hierarchy was one of the ma ...

390 CHAPTER 7 combinations based on these burials when taking into account the symbolic nature of the weapon burial rite. Beside ...

© koninklijke brill nv, leiden, ���5 | doi ��.��63/9789004304543_ 009 CHAPTER 8 Armament and Cavalry Warfare in the Avar-age Car ...

392 CHAPTER 8 should not, therefore, be reduced to ‘Nomadic warfare’, since several non- nomadic elements within the Avar army a ...

Armament and Cavalry Warfare in the Avar-Age Carpathian Basin 393 methods were used long before the European appearance of the s ...

394 CHAPTER 8 The distinction between heavy and light cavalry is not unambiguous, since it is based on their function (defensive ...

Armament and Cavalry Warfare in the Avar-Age Carpathian Basin 395 Avar, Byzantine and Western European heavy cavalry,32 while Is ...

396 CHAPTER 8 by the proportions of the mounted warrior,38 which is equal to the length of the Byzantine ‘kontos’.39 However, th ...

Armament and Cavalry Warfare in the Avar-Age Carpathian Basin 397 The significance (role) of the heavy cavalry continuously decr ...

398 CHAPTER 8 The decreasing number of spearheads from the Late phase (200 Late phase examples compared to the 404 Early phase s ...

Armament and Cavalry Warfare in the Avar-Age Carpathian Basin 399 and therefore the Carolingian double-edged swords were alien t ...

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General Conclusions 401 The polearms and edged weapons show diversity in their primary attribute, being the form of blade. Their ...

402 CHAPTER 9 was the appearance of the false edge and the curved blade.7 This later process was not a unilinear development lea ...

General Conclusions 403 The deposition of polearms and edged weapons in burials does not help in determining how they were worn, ...

404 CHAPTER 9 differences.16 These elements are distributed across a broader period17 than just the Avar Age in the Carpathian B ...

General Conclusions 405 origin were found in Eastern Transdanubia during the Early phase. Some of these influences arrived from ...

406 CHAPTER 9 also politically the centre of the Qaganate. These ostentatious weapons were probably distributed by the Qagan or ...

General Conclusions 407 civilisation (‘Imitatio Imperii’).28 From the middle of the 7th century a cultural transformation led to ...