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Toxophilus is a book about longbow archery by Roger Ascham, first published in London in 1545. Dedicated to King Henry VIII , it is the first book on archery written in English. Ascham was a keen archer and a lecturer at St John's College, Cambridge , and wrote Toxophilus or the Schole or Partitions of Shooting to defend archery against claims ...
The earliest known book on European longbow archery is the anonymous L'Art D'Archerie, produced in France in the late 15th or early 16th century. [10] The first book in English about longbow archery was Toxophilus by Roger Ascham, first published in London in 1545 and dedicated to King Henry VIII.
Self-yew English longbow, 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) long, 470 N (105 lbf) draw force. A late 15th century illustration of the Battle of Crécy. English longbowmen figure prominently in the foreground on the right, where they are driving away Italian mercenary crossbowmen. The English longbow was a powerful medieval type of bow, about
A treatise, A book on the excellence of the bow & arrow of c. 1500 details the practices and techniques of archery among the Arabs of that time. [70] An anonymous book written in Picardy, France, in the late 15th century details how archery in medieval Europe was practiced. The book was titled Le Fachon de tirer l'arc a main. It describes the ...
Hugh Soar wrote about the longbow and its history. Hugh is a well-known authority on the subject and has written several books including The Crooked Stick: A History of the Longbow (Weapons in History S.), Pub Westholme U.S., (2004), ISBN 1-59416-002-3. John Dudley wrote about the compound bow and the techniques of its use. John Dudley, has ...
Illustration of Welsh bowman, 13th century. The Welsh bow or Welsh longbow was a medieval weapon used by Welsh soldiers. They were documented by Gerald of Wales around 1188, who writes of the bows used by the Welsh men of Gwent: "They are made neither of horn, ash nor yew, but of elm. "[1] He reported that the bows of Gwent were "stiff and strong, not only for missiles to be shot from a ...
Nomads of the Longbow [1] is a book by Allan R. Holmberg, an anthropologist who studied Peruvian and other South American indigenous peoples. The book concerns itself with the indigenous Bolivian Sirionó people, whom he determined to be rather backward and undeveloped in terms of culture and civilization.
During the Middle Ages, official documents, with few exceptions, were written in Latin; in the Domesday Exchequer annals, written between 1300 and 1304 (that means, over 120 years after Richard's death), he was referred to as "Ricardus cognomento Stranghose Comes Strugulliae", which translates to "Richard, known as Stranghose, earl of Striguil" (modern Chepstow).