The armorer's art essays in honor of Stuart Pyhrr (Mowbray, 2014)
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 / Álvaro Soler Del Campo -- Rubens, the representation of arms and the Galerie Médicis in the Musée 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 Württemberg / Dirk H. Breiding -- A French Renaissance powder flask in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art / Pierre Terjanian