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The arts and crafts of older Spain (1907)

Williams, Leonard, b. 1871 · London [etc.] : T.N. Foulis · leaf 338

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;that is, ample coats of mail, heavy shields, thickiron helmets, lances with broad points, andinsecure saddles. . . . Now they have discardedthat equipment, and are beginning to use shortcuirasses, light helmets, Arab saddles, leathershields, and thin lances. Of the African troopsthe same historian… … DAGGER Ol BOABDIL El CHK - ARMS Descriptions of the Spanish-Moorish swordsinserted in the chronicles and poems of the MiddleAo-es, together with the few examples that havebeen preserved until our time, enable us to form anaccurate idea of the shape and decoration of theseweapons generally. Those of…

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