Acta Militaria Mediaevalia

volume XVII

 Kraków-Sanok-Wrocław 2021

17th volume of highly estimate journal focused on medieval arms, armour and fortifications.

This volume offers 8 PAPERS IN ENGLISH, other artciles are in Polish with ENGLISH summaries.

ALL PICTURE CAPTIONS ARE IN ENGLISH!

Contents:

IN ENGLISH:

Andrius Janionis, VLFBERHT swords from the territory of Lithuania

Valeri Yotov, Stirrups of the heavy cavalry in Byzantium (the end of the 11th – the beginning of the 12th century)

Felix Bierman, Normen Posselt, The siege of Stegen Castle in Stormarn in Year 1347 and its Archaeological Evidence

Nataliya Steblii, Petro Dovhan, Military equipment from the Late Medieval motte-and-bailey castle in Busk on the Western Bug

Dirk H. Breiding, Carl Pause,  Five helmets associated with the Siege of Neuss 1474/75

Gabriela Arndt, Technical inwenstigation of three maker’s marks on a 15th-century helmet

Zeno Karl Pinter, Valeri Yotov, A sword from Capidava (Romania) and some notes on the Byzantine “Spathae” in the 6th century

Nikolay Hrissimov, Simeon Tsvetkov, Two swords found to the east of Sofia. Are they traces of the “Long” campaign of Władysław III Jagiellonian and John Hunyadi in AD 1443?

ENGLISH SUMMARIES:

Marcin Engel, CezarySobczak, Ornamental details of sword scabbard chapes from “Castle Mountain” (Góra Zamkowa) in Szurpiły

Karol Żołędziowski, Ewelina Miśta-Jakubowska, Agnieszka Brojanowska, Fragments of sword scabbard chapes from Szurpiły in the light of archaeometallurgical analyses

Marek Florek, Arrowheads with tangs from Sandomierz and its surroundings. A contribution to research on the invasion on the land of Sandomierz in the Middle Ages

Wojciech Kawka, Late military accessories from Bytom

Piotr Strzyż, Jacek Ziętek, Remains of mail armour from the knighly residence in Petrykozy near Opoczno