CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

Acknowledgements

HISTORY OF COLLECTING DATA ON MEDIEVAL SWORDS FROM THE CZECH REPUBLIC

1.1. ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND TYPOLOGICAL DATA OF EARLY MEDIEVAL SWORDS
1.2. ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND TYPOLOGICAL DATA OF HIGH MEDIEVAL TO EARLY RENAISSANCE SWORDS
1.3. DATA FROM RESTORATION AND /OR ARCHAEOMETALLURGICAL SURVEYS

BRIEF OVERVIEW OF SWORD FINDS FROM THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES TO THE EARLY RENAISSANCE IN THE TERRITORY OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC

2.1. ABSENCE OF SWORD FINDS FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE MIDDLE AGES
2.2. THE NINTH TO TENTH CENTURY FINDS: THE PERIOD OF BURYING SWORDS IN GRA VES
• FINDS FROM THE NINTH TO TENTH CENTURIES IN MORA VIA
• FINDS FROM THE NINTH TO TENTH CENTURIES IN BOHEMIA
2.3. THE ELEVENTH TO MID-SIXTEENTH CENTURY SWORDS
• FINDS FROM THE ELEVENTH TO THIRTEENTH CENTURIES
• FINDS FROM THE FOURTEENTH TO FIFTEENTH CENTURIES
• FINDS FROM THE FIRST HALF OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY

THE SWORD – A DEFINITION OF TERMS

3.1. BLADE
3.2. HILT
• TANG AND GRIP
• CROSSGUARD
• UPPER HILT /POMMEL
3.3. A SWORD MANUFACTURING PROCESS

THE CATALOGUE

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