The main goal of this research is to discover the development of the representation of swords the principal type of weapon in the Middle Ages and to ground it on examples represented in religious paintings. Latters are treated not only as the representatives of Christian ideas, but also as witnesses to the everyday life of the time. The principal questions that author tries to answer in this research are the following: How are the swords represented? Does the development of the representations of swords correspond to changes in the field of weaponry of the time? Are swords represented...