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References for Arms and Armor

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Metropolitan Museum Publications

Domínguez Ortiz, Antonio, Concha Herrero Carretero, and José A. Godoy. Resplendence of the Spanish Monarchy: Renaissance Tapestries and Armor from the Patrimonio Nacional. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1991.

LaRocca, Donald J. The Academy of the Sword: Illustrated Fencing Books, 1500–1800. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1998.

LaRocca, Donald J. The Gods of War: Sacred Imagery and the Decoration of Arms and Armor. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1996.

LaRocca, Donald J. Warriors of the Himalayas: Rediscovering the Arms and Armor of Tibet. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2006.

Nickel, Helmut. Arms and Armor from the Permanent Collection. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1991.

Nickel, Helmut, Stuart W. Pyhrr, and Leonid Tarassuk. The Art of Chivalry: European Arms and Armor from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat. New York: American Federation of Arts, 1982.

Pyhrr, Stuart W. Arms & Armor: Essays by Stephen V. Grancsay from the Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, 1920–1964. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986.

Pyhrr, Stuart W. European Helmets, 1450–1650: Treasures from the Reserve Collection. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000.

Pyhrr, Stuart W., Donald J. LaRocca, and Dirk H. Breiding. The Armored Horse in Europe, 1480—1620. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005.

Pyhrr, Stuart W., Donald J. LaRocca, and Morihiro Ogawa. Arms and Armor, Notable Acquisitions 1991–2002. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002.

Pyhrr, Stuart W., and José A. Godoy. Heroic Armor of the Italian Renaissance: Filippo Negroli and His Contemporaries. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1998.


Further Reading

Blackmore, Howard L. Hunting Weapons. New York: Walker, 1971.

Blair, Claude. European & American Arms, c. 1100–1850. New York: Crown, 1962.

Blair, Claude. European Armor, Circa 1066 to Circa 1700. London: Batsford, 1958.

Edge, David, and John Miles Paddock. Arms & Armor of the Medieval Knight. New York: Crescent Books, 1988.

Gamber, Ortwin, et al. Glossarium armorum. Arma defensiva. Graz: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt, 1972.

Hayward, J. F. The Art of the Gunmaker. 2 vols. London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962–63.

Jones, David E. Native North American Armor, Shields, and Fortifications. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004.

Laking, Guy Francis. A Record of European Armour and Arms Through Seven Centuries. 5 vols. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1920–22.

Mann, James. European Arms and Armour. 2 vols. London: W. Clowes, 1962.

Nickel, Helmut. Arms and Armor in Africa. New York: Atheneum, 1971.

Norman, A. V. B. The Rapier and Small-Sword, 1460–1820. New York: Arno, 1980.

Oakeshott, R. Ewart. The Sword in the Age of Chivalry. London: Lutterworth Press, 1964.

Peterson, Harold L. Arms and Armor in Colonial America, 1526–1783. Harrisburg, Pa.: Stackpole, 1956.

Pfaffenbichler, Matthias. Armourers. London: British Museum Press, 1992.

Robinson, H. Russell. Oriental Armour. London: Jenkins, 1967.

Spring, Christopher. African Arms and Armor. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993.

Stone, George Cameron. A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration, and Use of Arms and Armor: In All Countries and in All Times. Portland, Me.: Southworth Press, 1934.

Tarassuk, Leonid, and Claude Blair, eds. The Complete Encyclopedia of Arms & Weapons. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982.

Taylor, Colin F. Native American Weapons. London: Salamander, 2001.


Scholarly Journals Devoted to the Study of Arms and Armor

Arms & Armour (formerly Royal Armouries Yearbook). Leeds, UK: Royal Armouries, 1996–.

Gladius. Madrid: Instituto de Estudios sobre Armas Antiguas, 1961–.

Journal of the Armour Research Society (formerly Journal of the Mail Research Society). McHenry, Ill.: Armour Research Society, 2005–.

Journal of the Arms & Armour Society. London: Arms & Armour Society, 1953–.

Livrustkammaren. Stockholm: Royal Armoury, 1937–.

Waffen- und Kostümkunde (formerly Zeitschrift für Waffenkunde, Zeitschrift für Waffen- und Kostümkunde). Berlin: Gesellschaft für Waffen- und Kostümkunde, 1959–.