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This handbook analyses the different types of shields used by soldiers in the Neo-Assyrian army and their opponents. Written, visual, and material sources are analysed to illustrate practical aspects of defensive weaponry in the ancient Near East in the first millennium B.C. The origins, use, evolution, and manufacture of shields are considered in presenting a typology of these objects. The first study of its kind, this work will appeal to advanced scholars, graduate students, general non-specialists, and re-enactors alike

Proceedings of the 22nd International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences in Ottawa from August 18 to 23, 1996. -- Actes du 22e congrès international des sciences généalogique et héraldique à Ottawa du 18 au 23 août 1996.

1. The Gordian knot of emblemata : from the Labyrinthus absconditus to the affirmation of the Prisca Jurisprudentia / Valerie Hayaert -- 2. The evidence of things not seen / Peter Goodrich -- 3. Metamorphosis, mythography, and the nature of English law / Paul Raffield -- 4. Confessio infirmitatis, or, a productive digression put to good use in legal affairs / Anselm Haverkamp -- 5. The heart and the law in the scales : allegorical discourse and modes of subjectivization in early-modern religious emblematics / Agnes Guiderdoni -- 6. From pornograhy to moral didactism : how the French play with emblems / Christian Biet -- 7. The tongue and the eye : eloquence and office in renaissance emblems / Piyel Haldar -- 8. Don't screw with the law : visual and spatial defences against judicial and political corruption in renaissance Italy / Alick Mclean -- 9. Epistemological doubt and visual puzzles of sight, knowledge, and judgment : reflections on clear-sighted and blindfolded justices / Judith Rensnik And Denis Curtis -- 10. Crime shows : CSI in Habsburg Spain / Bill Egginton.