Avar-Age Polearms and Edged Weapons

Classification, Typology, Chronology and Technology

Bibliographic Data

ID9342175
AuthorsGergely Csiky (0000-0003-4775-0004, corresponding author)
Year2015
Publication date2015-09-18
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueAvar-Age Polearms and Edged Weapons (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/9789004304543
OpenAlexW4244656471
ISBN9789004304543
LanguageEN
Citations received11

In Avar-Age Polearms and Edged Weapons, Gergely Csiky offers a presentation of close combat weapons of a nomadic population that migrated from Inner Asia to East-Central Europe. During the late 6th – early 7th centuries, the Avars led successful military campaigns against the Balkan realms of the Byzantine Empire, facilitated by their cavalry's use of stirrups for the first time in Europe. Besides the classification, manufacturing techniques, fittings, suspension, distribution, and chronology of polearms and edged weapons known from Avar-age burials, a special emphasis is laid on the origins and cultural contacts of these weapons, among them the first edged weapons with curved blades: the sabres. The social significance and, function of these artefacts is discussed in order to place them in nomadic warfare

Ancient history · Byzantine architecture · Empire · Population · Sociology · Ancient Near East History · Demography · Eurasian Exchange Networks · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History

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