![]() ![]() The words "amateur" and "dilettante" have become pejorative. I am not, nor ever have been, an "expert", and I will not write merely for the benefit of experts. I believe that a person-to-person approach is more likely to be appreciated by those for whom I write, than a strictly academic one. Those of my readers who are already familiar with my work will know that I write in a conversational style. To avoid confusion, I ask my readers to refer constantly to this appendix because all of these reassessments, and all of this fresh thought have appeared in my Records of the Medieval Sword (Boydell Press, 1991). Any publication of archaeological research must always be subject to the possibility of new evidence calling for a change of mind, and for any true scholar this must demand an admission of error. Further finds and more study will inevitably bring about the need for yet further amendments. My publishers and I have decided not to amend the actual text, but rather to add an appendix wherein these errors are corrected. Since then, thirty more years of thought based upon many significant archaeological finds have exposed these errors. Preface to the 1994 Edition This book, having been prepared and published in the early 1960s, contains many errors in the matter of the dating of swords. Title 623.441 ISBN 0-85115-362-3 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 94-5438 This publication is printed on acid-free paper Printed in Great Britain by Athenæsum Press, Gateshead, Tyne & Wear PO Box 41026, Rochester, NY 14604-4126, USA British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Oakeshott, Ewart Sword in the Age of Chivalry.-New ed 1. Except as permitted under current legislation no part of this work may be photocopied, stored in a retrieval system, published, performed in public, adapted, broadcast, transmitted, recorded or reproduced in any form or by any means, without the prior permission of the copyright owner First published 1964 Reissued 1994 The Boydell Press, Woodbridge Reprinted 1995 Reprinted in paperback 1998 ISBN 0 85115 362 3 hardback ISBN 0 85115 715 7 paperback The Boydell Press is an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3DF, UK and of Boydell & Brewer Inc. The Sword in the AGE of Chivalry Ewart Oakeshott with drawings by the author THE BOYDELL PRESS ![]()
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