The Book of the Sword

by Sir Richard Francis Burton

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Contents

  1. Foreword
  2. Introduction
  3. List of Authorities
  4. Chapter I. Preamble: On the Origin of Weapons
  5. Chapter II. Man’s First Weapons—The Stone and the Stick. The Earliest Ages of Weapons. The Ages of Wood, of Bone, and of Horn
  6. Chapter III. The Weapons of the Age of Wood: The Boomerang and the Sword of Wood; Of Stone, and of Wood and Stone Combined
  7. Chapter IV. The Proto-Chalcitic or Copper Age of Weapons
  8. Chapter V. The Second Chalcitic Age of Alloys—Bronze, Brass, Etc.: The Axe and the Sword
  9. Chapter VI. The Proto-Sideric or Early Iron Age of Weapons
  10. Chapter VII. The Sword: What Is It?
  11. Chapter VIII. The Sword in Ancient Egypt and in Modern Africa
  12. Chapter IX. The Sword in Khita-Land, Palestine and Canaan; Phœnicia and Carthage; Jewry, Cyprus, Troy, and Etruria
  13. Chapter X. The Sword in Babylonia, Assyria and Persia, and Ancient India
  14. Chapter XI. The Sword in Ancient Greece: Homer; Hesiod and Herodotus: Mycenæ
  15. Chapter XII. The Sword in Ancient Rome; The Legion and the Gladiator
  16. Chapter XIII. The Sword Amongst the Barbarians (Early Roman Empire)
  17. Conclusion

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