ARМOUR AND WEAPONS IN MEDIEVAL SERBIA, BOSNIA AND DUBROVNIK

Philip · 20th April 2022, 09:49 PM

Thanks for sharing this useful document.
I am somewhat surprised not to find, in the illustrations of swords, the flatted square pommels with central bosses, characteristic of the late-medieval spada schiavonesca of Dalmatia, which later evolved into the familiar cat's head pommel seen on the basket hilted schiavona used by Dalmatians and Venetians from the 1580s onward.

20th April 2022, 09:49 PM	#5
Philip Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: California Posts: 1,036	Thanks for sharing this useful document. I am somewhat surprised not to find, in the illustrations of swords, the flatted square pommels with central bosses, characteristic of the late-medieval spada schiavonesca of Dalmatia, which later evolved into the familiar cat's head pommel seen on the basket hilted schiavona used by Dalmatians and Venetians from the 1580s onward.