Tag: Chariots

Free Download Nuria Silleras-Fernandez, "Chariots of Ladies: Francesc Eiximenis and the Court Culture of Medieval and Early Modern Iberia"
English | ISBN: 0801453836 | 2015 | 328 pages | PDF | 4 MB
In Chariots of Ladies, Nuria Silleras-Fernandez traces the development of devotion and female piety among the Iberian aristocracy from the late Middle Ages into the Golden Age, and from Catalonia to the rest of Iberia and Europe via the rise of the Franciscan Observant movement. A program of piety and morality devised by Francesc Eiximenis, a Franciscan theologian, royal counselor, and writer in Catalonia in the 1390s, came to characterize the feminine ideal in the highest circles of the Iberian aristocracy in the era of the Empire. As Eiximenis’s work was adapted and translated into Castilian over the century and a half that followed, it became a model of devotion and conduct for queens and princesses, including Isabel the Catholic and her descendants, who ruled over Portugal and the Spanish Empire of the Hapsburgs.

Free Download Hitler’s Black Chariots: The Legend & Reality of Germany’s Tiger Tank in World War Two
by Logan Kaine
English | June 13, 2024 | ISBN: 199064497X | 289 pages | EPUB | 1.16 Mb

Free Download Chariots, Swords and Spears: Iron Age Burials at the Foot of the East Yorkshire Wolds by Mark Stephens
English | December 14, 2022 | ISBN: 1789255422 | 312 pages | MOBI | 82 Mb
This volume brings together recent excavations at two sites in Pocklington, East Yorkshire. The main focus of the volume will be examining Iron Age burials, which included chariots, sword and spears and will also include earlier Prehistoric and later Roman activity. The excavations have enabled further scientific evidence for migration and mobility in the Iron Age population and secure chronologies for artifacts. New evidence from osteological analysis gives support for Warrior Graves and burial rites. The Pocklington shield has been described as one of the most significant pieces of Iron Age art.

Free Download Brian Delf, "Bronze Age War Chariots"
English | 2006 | pages: 51 | ISBN: 1841769444 | PDF | 14,2 mb
Chariots, the first mobile fighting vehicle, seem to have originated in Mesopotamia in the third millennium BC. The highly mobile two-wheeled war chariot, carrying a driver and an archer armed with a short composite bow, revolutionized military tactics after 1700 BC. This expensive weapon spread throughout the Middle East and is thought to have reached Egypt with the conquering Hyksos. It spread into Asia Minor, Greece, and was known in Northern Europe by 1500 BC. This book covers the evolution of the war chariot throughout the Bronze Age, detailing its design, development and combat history – in particular its fundamental involvement at the battle of Qadesh.