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Developed in antiquity but became common in the 14th century with the reintroduction of plate armour, later sometimes two pieces overlapping for top and bottom. Whether of one piece or two, breastplate is sometimes used to literally describe the section that covers the breast. Plackart: Extra layer of plate armour initially covering the belly.
Brigandine from Handbuch der Waffenkunde (Handbook of Weaponry), Wendelin Boeheim, 1890. A brigandine is a form of body armour from the late Middle Ages and up to the early Modern Era . It is a garment typically made of heavy cloth, canvas, or leather, lined internally with small oblong steel plates riveted to the fabric, sometimes with a ...
This is a list of names for observable phenomena that contain the word “effect”, amplified by reference(s) to their respective fields of study. Contents: Top
An Ancient Greek bronze cuirass, dated between 620 and 580 BC. In Hellenistic and Roman times, the musculature of the male torso was idealized in the form of the muscle cuirass [2] or "heroic cuirass" (in French the cuirasse esthétique) [3] sometimes further embellished with symbolic representation in relief, familiar in the Augustus of Prima Porta and other heroic representations in official ...
Over the course of the Joseon Dynasty, Korean scaled armour changed in style. Initially the scales were on the exterior of the armour and thus attached to a base leather and fabric backing, but by the later Joseon era the scales (by this time mostly hardened leather) were riveted inside the armour coat, [11] forming a type of brigandine armour.
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During the Ming dynasty (1368–1644), brigandine began to supplant lamellar armour and was used to a great degree into the Qing dynasty (1644–1912). By the 19th century most Qing armour, which was of the brigandine type, were purely ceremonial, having kept the outer studs for aesthetic purposes, and omitted the protective metal plates.
Depiction of a 13th-century gambeson (Morgan Bible, fol. 10r)A gambeson (similar to the aketon, padded jack, pourpoint, or arming doublet) is a padded defensive jacket, worn as armour separately, or combined with mail or plate armour.