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Martijn A. Wijnhoven
A r c h a e o l o g i c a l
S t u d i e s
European
Mail Armour
ringed battle shirts
from the iron age,
roman period and
early middle ages
Amsterdam University Press
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Editorial Board:
Prof. dr. N. Roymans
Prof. dr. P.A.J. Attema
Prof. dr. E.M. Moormann
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Open Access edition: http://dare.uva.nl/record/19675
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This book meets the requirements of ISO 9706: 1994, Information and documentation – Paper
for documents – Requirements for permanence.
Cover illustration: Image top left & bottom right: fragments of mail armour from Bijele Crkve in Serbia
dating to the Late Antiquity. Arheološki Muzej u Zagrebu (photograph M.A. Wijnhoven). Image top
right: statue of a Gallo-Roman soldier found at Vachères in France. The soldier in this Late Republican
sculpture wears a mail coat rendered in a very realistic style. Musée Calvet, Avignon (photograph M.A.
Wijnhoven). Image bottom left: the mid-3rd-century Ludovisi sarcophagus depicts a
signifer
clad in mail
armour. Palazzo Altemps, Rome (photograph M.A. Wijnhoven).
Cover design: Kok Korpershoek, Amsterdam
Lay-out: Bert Brouwenstijn, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
ISBN: 978 94 6372 126 4
e-ISBN: 978 90 4855 429 4 (pdf )
NUR: 682
DOI: 10.5117/9789463721264
© M.A. Wijnhoven / Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam 2022
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