Ashdown begins with prehistoric weapons, the Assyrians and the Romans, then charts the armour of Saxons, Danes and Normans and the medieval sequence from chain mail through the cyclas, camail and jupon to the full plate of the surcoatless and tabard periods. His evidence comes from brasses, effigies, illuminated manuscripts and surviving pieces.
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