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The Bollock dagger was often used during Shakespeare's time and was only permitted to be carried by men. This dagger was most commonly used as a backup weapon for a sword or spear. The dagger first started appearing on continental effigies around 1300–1350, and has one of the longest usage periods of any of the five main types of medieval ...
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A 14th-century baselard (Swiss National Museum) Drawing of the baselard shown on the effigy of Thomas de Topcliffe (died 1365) (Dillon 1887).The baselard, Schwiizerdolch in Swiss-German (also basilard, baslard, in Middle French also badelare, bazelaire and variants, Latinized baselardus, basolardus etc., in Middle High German beseler, baseler, basler, pasler; baslermesser) is a historical type ...
This new form of dagger was really a miniaturized sword, featuring a flat double-edged blade and central spine or fuller. The first fighting daggers to become widely popular in Europe were the rondel dagger and the bollock dagger. The rondel dagger was a fighting knife with a double-edged, tapered blade and a hilt featuring circular guards.
The dagger reappeared in the 12th century as the "knightly dagger", or more properly cross-hilt or quillon dagger, [27] and was developed into a common arm and tool for civilian use by the late medieval period. [28] Modern reproductions of medieval daggers. From left to right: Ballock dagger, Rondel dagger, and a Quillon dagger
The Elmslie typology is a system for classification and description of the single edged European bladed weapons of the late medieval and early baroque period, from around 1100 to 1550. It is designed to provide classification terminology for archaeological finds of single-edged arms, as well as visual depictions in art.
The Art of Dueling: Salvator Fabris' Fencing Treatise of 1606. Union City, Calif.: The Chivalry Bookshelf, 2004. Print. ISBN 978-1-891448-23-2; Mele, Gregory D., ed. In the Service of Mars: Proceedings from the Western Martial Arts Workshop 1999–2009, Volume I. Freelance Academy Press, 2010. Print. ISBN 978-0-9825911-5-4
An anelace (or in Middle English anelas) was a medieval dagger worn as a gentleman's accoutrement in 14th century England. Frederick William Fairholt (1846) describes it as "a knife or dagger worn at the girdle ", [ 1 ] and George Russell French (1869) as "a large dagger, or a short sword, [that] appears to have been worn, suspended by a ring ...