Category: Journal
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A Revolution in Arms: A History of the First Repeating Rifles (Review)
Robert B. GordonTechnology and Culture, Volume 48, Number 2, April 2007, pp. 457-458 (Review)
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A particular wheellock pistol in Turin
Marco Morin The weapon appears also interesting from a technical point of view since it has aparticularly safety system, used only rarely and, to our knowledge, only on pistols ofGerman origin.
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Material Culture and Military History: Test-Firing Early Modern Small Arms
Peter Krenn – Steiermarkisches Landesmuseum JahanneumPaul Kalaus – Austrian ArmyBert Hall – University of Toronto Abstract This article is in two parts. Part 1 summarizes the results of a series of test-firings of genuine early modem small arms carried out in 1988-89 by staff of the Landeszeughaus (Provincial Armoury) in Graz, Austria — a division…
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Dogs in the Southwest
Tobi Taylor, Center for Desert ArchaeologyAlan Ferg, Arizona State MuseumDody Fugate, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture Archaeology Southwest Center for Desert Archaeology Volume 22, Number 3, Summer 2008
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Arabians for guns: Wahhabi matchlocks, world trade, andthe rise of the first Saudi state
Leor Halevi Abstract Historical explanations of the rise and expansion of the first Saudi state have given Wahhabism pride of place. Principally, they have dwelt on religion and ideology, emphasizing the role of the eighteenth-century theologian Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb and arguing that his charisma, puritanical zeal, exclusivist approach to monotheistic worship, or neo-orthodox reform…
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Grappling with the Grotesque
Jenny Anger Review of:Frances S. Connelly, The Grotesque in Western Art and Culture: The Image atPlay, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012, 190 pp., 62 b & w illus.,
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Accessions – The Wisconsin Magazine of History
Source: The Wisconsin Magazine of History, Vol. 44, No. 3 (Spring, 1961), pp. 232-239Published by: Wisconsin Historical Society Pair of antique Saxon wheellock pistols. These unique specimens, 30 inches in length, bear the marks of Zacharias Herold, court gunsmith at Dresden, 1584-1628, and of the gunsmith, Hans Fleischer, also active for the Saxonian court from…
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About the development of the Brescian wheellock in the last decades of the 16th century
Paolo De Montis Introduction One of Marco Morin’s most important contributions to hoplological literature was certainly his research into the German origin of the wheellock system, research often in conflict withthe studies of another eminent scholar, Claude Blair, according to whom the wheellock system was first created in Italy. The dating of the two sources…
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About the Agreement of 1476 between the Brussels Painters and Tapestry Weavers Concerning Cartoon Painting
Guy DELMARCEL n 1876, Alphonse Wauters, the archivist from the city of Brussels, published the first specific study devoted to the history of Brussels tapestries .[1] It was the outcome of his life long research in the city archives, and several very interesting documents were published in his book. Among them, he revealed an agreement…
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Ground-Truthing Excavations at Los Adaes (16NA16) May, 2010
George Avery Abstract In May 2010, Stephen F. Austin State University—funded by the Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL)—conducted excavations at Los Adaes State Historic Site (16NA16) to ground-truth the results of a geophysical survey of the presidio area of the site conducted by ERDC CERL and the University…