Contents: Preface, Ronald S. Lauder ; Portrait of the curator as a young man, Helmut Nickel ; Stuart Pyhrr, the consumate curator of arms and armor, Donald La Rocca ; About the adarga : a shield of two faiths, three continents, four cultures and seven centuries, Helmut Nickel ; A ceremonial soaking : the Eglinton Tournament, 1839, William Reid ; Two early examples of armour of proof in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Ian Eaves ; From helmets to buckets : bascinets and hand artillery of the Aldobrandesco fortress of Piancastagnaio, Mario Scalini ; The armors of Philip III the Good, Duke of Burgundy : purchases, rentals, gifts, upkeep and transportation, Claude Gaier ; Putting the King's guns in order : the organization of the Royal Hunting Armory of Madrid , Alvaro Soler Del Campo ; Rubens, the representation of arms and the Galerie Medicis in the MuseŽe du Louvre, Jean-Pierre Reverseau ; The Amsterdam ballock daggers, Jan Piet Puype ; An early Tibetan text on the connoisseurship of swords, Donald J. La Rocca ; Pietro Monte's exercises and the Medieval science of arms, Jeffrey Forgeng ; Elements of an Augsburg armor garniture for a Spanish client, Jonathan Tavares ; A knife with the arms and orders of Duke Friedrich I of Wurttemberg, Dirk H. Breiding ; A French Renaissance powder flask in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pierre Terjanian.

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