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Pollaxe sources and further reading
Amanda Sopchockchai, Class of 2027, College of the Holy Cross
Berentsen, W. H. , Sheehan, . James J. , Schleunes, . Karl A. , Duggan, . Lawrence G. , Turner, . Henry Ashby , Bayley, . Charles Calvert , Strauss, . Gerald , Leyser, . K.J. , Elkins, . Thomas Henry , Hamerow, . Theodore S. , Heather, . Peter John , Kirby, . George Hall , Wallace-Hadrill, . John Michael , Barkin, . Kenneth and Geary, . Patrick J.. "Germany." Encyclopedia Britannica, February 28, 2024. https://www.britannica.com/place/Germany.
Britannica, T. Editors of Encyclopaedia. "pageant." Encyclopedia Britannica, November 18, 2023. https://www.britannica.com/art/pageant.
Cartwright, Mark. 2018. “Medieval Tournament.” World History Encyclopedia. May 7, 2018. https://www.worldhistory.org/Medieval_Tournament/.
“Kingdom of Germany.” 2022. Wikipedia. October 21, 2022. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Germany.
“Knightly Pollaxe.” 2019. Arms & Armor. December 16, 2019. https://www.arms-n-armor.com/blogs/news/knightly-pole-axe#:~:text=Ours%20is%20composed%20of%20eleven.
Marek, Lech. “Duel to the Death? The Emblematic Decoration of Fifteenth Century Pole Hammers.” Arms & Armour 19, no. 2 (November 2022): 118–45. doi:10.1080/17416124.2022.2139880.
Medieval Combat in Colour by Hans Talhoffer
Medievalists.net. 2015. “Ponderous, Cruel and Mortal: A Review of Medieval Poleaxe Technique from Surviving Treatises of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries.” Medievalists.net. November 17, 2015. https://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/ponderous-cruel-and-mortal-a-review-of-medieval-poleaxe-technique-from-surviving-treatises-of-the-fourteenth-and-fifteenth-centuries/.
“Pollaxe | French, Burgundy.” n.d. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Accessed February 29, 2024. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/26720.
“Pollaxe.” n.d. Worcester.emuseum.com. Accessed February 29, 2024. https://worcester.emuseum.com/objects/47958/pollaxe?ctx=ecc4f7a87c169220c67c7e0eeaac88658acbc63c&idx=0.
“Poleaxe.” 2021. Wikipedia. October 11, 2021. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poleaxe.
“Quarterstaff.” 2024. Wikipedia. February 9, 2024. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarterstaff.
Smith, Kay, and Ruth R. Brown. “TO STRIKE ‘THE BRAINS OUT OF HIS HEAD’: THE POLLAXE.” Medieval Warfare 9, no. 4 (2019): 38–39. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48637220.
Stokstad, Marilyn, and Michael Cothren. Art History. Sixth ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson, 2018. Volume I.
2020. Metmuseum.org. 2020. https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/dect/hd_dect.htm.
“What Are Langets on a Polearm For?” 2020. Arms & Armor. May 18, 2020. https://www.arms-n-armor.com/blogs/news/what-are-langets-on-a-polearm-for.Need to fix formatting for WAM sources:
Walter J. Karcheski, Jr., "Steel Men . . . Man of Steel: John
Woodman Higgins and his Armory," "Man at Arms," vol. 12,
number 1 (January/February 1990), p. 16, fig. 11.
Henry G. Keasbey collection, sale catalogue, American Art
Galleries (NYC), 5/6 December 1924, lot 70, shown on plate
5, center. Purchased by Mackay.
Check Clements sale catalogue, Christies London, 11 Dec
1906 to see if piece sold there.
Francis Henry Cripps-Day, "A Record of Armour Sales,
1881-1924" (London: G. Bell & Sons, Ltd, 1925), p. 42 (sale
of the de Cosson collection at Christies' 2/3 May 1893, lot
141).