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Late medieval gothic plate armour with list of elements. The slot in the helmet is called an occularium. The slot in the helmet is called an occularium. This list identifies various pieces of body armour worn from the medieval to early modern period in the Western world , mostly plate but some mail armour , arranged by the part of body that is ...
Viking landing at Dublin, 841, by James Ward (1851-1924). Knowledge about military technology of the Viking Age (late 8th to mid-11th century Europe) is based on relatively sparse archaeological finds, pictorial representations, and to some extent on the accounts in the Norse sagas and laws recorded in the 12th–14th centuries.
Full plate armour for man and horse commissioned by Sigismund II Augustus, Livrustkammaren in Stockholm Sweden (1550s). Armour for Gustav I of Sweden by Kunz Lochner , c. 1540 ( Livrustkammaren ). Plate armour is a historical type of personal body armour made from bronze , iron , or steel plates, culminating in the iconic suit of armour ...
An early type of alwyte armour; note that it opens from the back like a brigandine, so it could be considered as a late type of transitional armour. White armour, or alwyte armour, was a form of plate armour worn in the Late Middle Ages characterized by full-body steel plate without a surcoat.
In medieval Norse, the garment was known as vápntreyja, literally 'weapon shirt', or panzari/panzer. [3] Treyja is a loan from (Middle) Low German. [ 4 ] Panzari/panzer is probably also a loan from Middle Low German , though the word has its likely origin in Italian, and is related to the Latin pantex , meaning 'abdomen', [ 5 ] cognate with ...
In Japan the testing of armor by arrow or a musket ball is called tameshi with the tested armor being called tameshi gusoku. [1] Helmet and chest armors were tested and many examples of these armors showing the bullet test marks still exist.
Weapons also had symbolic value for the Anglo-Saxons, apparently having strong connections to gender and social status. Weapons were commonly included as grave goods in the early Anglo-Saxon burials. The vast majority of these weapons were buried in graves of men, but they also were buried in the graves of women.
13th century German great helm with a flat top to the skull. The great helm or heaume, also called pot helm, bucket helm and barrel helm, is a helmet of the High Middle Ages which arose in the late twelfth century in the context of the Crusades and remained in use until the fourteenth century.