Tag: 1450

Free Download Michael E. Haskew – Rifles & Muskets: From 1450 to the Present Day
Amber Books | 2014 | ISBN: 1782741518 | English | 232 pages | PDF | 139.07 MB
Matchlock, wheel lock, flintlock and caplock; muzzle-loading and breech-loading; revolving and rifling – the history of muskets and rifles is a fascinating journey through the development of firearms technology. From early matchlocks of the 15th century to the latest hunting rifles and assault rifles, Collector’s Guides: Rifles & Muskets traces the development of these small arms through their technical revolutions. From a 16th century wheel-lock to today’s Knight MK-85 muzzleloader, from the Winchester to the Ak-47 to the latest sporting rifles, Collector’s Guides: Rifles & Muskets offers a narrative history of the classics among these firearms. Throughout there are technical specifications for featured firearms. Illustrated with more than 260 color and black-and-white artworks and photographs, Collector’s Guides: Rifles & Muskets is an expertly written account of the history of sporting and military firearms.

Free Download Damien Duffy, "Aristocratic Women in Ireland, 1450-1660: The Ormond Family, Power and Politics "
English | ISBN: 1783275936 | 2021 | 294 pages | PDF | 26 MB
An in-depth analysis of the key contribution made by the women members of this important ruling family in maintaining and advancing the family’s political, landed, economic, social and religious interests.

Free Download Cyprus and the Renaissance (1450-1650) By Benjamin Arbel; Evelien Chayes; Harald Hendrix (Eds.)
2012 | 470 Pages | ISBN: 2503541925 | PDF | 7 MB
The present collection is the first of its kind centered on intellectual exchanges during the Renaissance period, deepening their source-based documentary study, as well as our knowledge of the island’s culture and heritage in relation to political, scholarly and religious life in Western countries. These twelve essays by leading scholars in the field are products of an international research project on early modern Cyprus and its relation to cultural developments in the West, started in November 2009.Cyprus, an independent ‘Frankish’ kingdom from 1191 to 1473, became a Venetian protectorate, then, in 1489, a　Venetian colony until its conquest by the Ottomans in 1570. Its population was diverse and rich in religious experience　- preponderantly followers of the Greek rite, but also Latins, Eastern Christians and Jews.Its heritage from Antiquity, as well as from the Byzantine and Frankish periods, its monasteries (which received, reproduced and produced manuscripts) and its geopolitically pivotal site on East-West trade routes attracted numerous Westerners. The cultural magnet drew deeper interests than those of pilgrimage and tourism.The continuous to and fro of Europeans, many of them Venetian, the island’s importance to economic and military strategies, and the allure conferred by a mythological past stimulated and fostered a generous descriptive and allusive literature.The present collection is the first of its kind, centered on written culture and exchanges during the Renaissance period, deepening their source-based documentary study, as well as our knowledge of the island’s culture and heritage in relation to cultural developments in Western countries.

Free Download Frans Laurentius, "Watermarks 1450-1850: A Concise History of Paper in Western Europe "
English | ISBN: 9004506837 | 2023 | 320 pages | PDF | 37 MB
An insight into the production aspects of paper in Western Europe.