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Roman imperial armour
The Roman Empire depended on the power of its armies to defend and extend the imperial borders, enabling it to dominate much of Europe, Northern Africa and the Middle East. Success was, in large part, founded on well-trained, well-disciplined soldiers who were equipped with the most advanced arms an...
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| Dokumenttyp: | Online-Ressource Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Oxford
: Oxbow Books
, ©2012
Oakville, Conn : David Brown Book Co , ©2012 |
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| Online Zugang: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/jstor-ebooks-altertum/www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvh1dt0h |
| Bibliogr. Hinweis: | Erscheint auch als:
Roman imperial armour |
| E-Book-Pakete: | JSTOR E-Books in Classical Studies |
| Zusammenfassung: | The Roman Empire depended on the power of its armies to defend and extend the imperial borders, enabling it to dominate much of Europe, Northern Africa and the Middle East. Success was, in large part, founded on well-trained, well-disciplined soldiers who were equipped with the most advanced arms and armour available at that time. This is the story of the production of that armour. Roman Imperial Armour presents an examination of the metals the armour was made from, of how the ores containing those metals were extracted from the earth and transformed into workable metal and of how that raw pro |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references |
| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (x, 180 pages, [8] pages of color plates) illustrations (some color) |
| ISBN: | 9781842177044 |
