Swords

Subjects covered in this issue: cloth types in the late 15th century; notes on medieval cloth measures; the nature of swords; and tents.

Subjects covered in this issue: medieval cookery and medicine; Tacuinum Sanitatis; benches, shelves, and tables; a typical Swiss or South-German coif; and late 15th century swords.

Brief descriptio n of the history and process of pattern welding.

The most prized and lauded weapon, but not the most common one, was the sword.

For almost a millennium , a modest wooden ship lay underwater off the coast of Serce Limani, Turkey, filled with evidence of trade and objects of daily life. The ship trafficked in both the Byzantine and Islamic worlds of its time. The ship is known as "the Glass Wreck" because its cargo included three metric tons of glass cullet, including broken Islamic vessels, and eighty pieces of intact glassware. In addition, it held glazed Islamic bowls, red-ware cooking vessels, copper cauldrons and buckets, wine amphoras, weapons, tools, jewelry, fishing gear, remnants of meals, coins, scales and weights, and more. This first volume of the complete site report introduces the discovery, the methods of its excavation , and the conservati on of its artifacts. Chapters cover the details of the ship, its contents, the probable personal possession s of the crew, and the picture of daily shipboard life that can be drawn from the discoverie s.

Waterford is Ireland&#3 9;s oldest city, founded by Viking raiders in 914 A.D. The city centre was extensivel y excavated between 1986 and 1992 and the range, quantity and quality of what was found from Waterford& #39;s Viking and Medieval past, surpassed all expectatio ns. Waterford Museum of Treasures brings together for the first time the excavated objects and the historic municipal collection and displays them in optimum conditions . The exhibition celebrates the ethnic, cultural and religious diversity of all who contribute d to the making of Waterford.