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A variety of polearms consisting of morning stars, halberds, partisans, spontoons, war scythes, and a ranseur in the center Evolution of various European polearms from the 13th to 18th centuries A polearm or pole weapon is a close combat weapon in which the main fighting part of the weapon is fitted to the end of a long shaft, typically of wood ...
Godfrey of Bouillon holds a short Lucerne hammer.Anachronistic fresco dated 1420. Warrior holding a poleaxe in the coat of arms of Alytus County, Lithuania. The poleaxe design arose from the need to breach the plate armour of men at arms during the 14th and 15th centuries.
Pages in category "Medieval polearms" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Guisarme, a medieval bladed weapon on the end of a long pole; later designs implemented a small reverse spike on the back of the blade; Glaive, a large blade, up to 45 cm (18 in) long, on the end of a 2 m (6 ft 7 in) pole; Guandao, a Chinese polearm from the 3rd century AD that had a heavy curved blade with a spike at the back
This construction is also seen in Scottish polearms, such as the Lochaber axe and Jeddart staff, and bardiches are known to have been imported into Scotland in the 16th and 17th centuries. [5] Depending on the design of the particular weapons in question, at times a bardiche may greatly resemble a voulge .
The possibility that the name derives from the way the staff is held, the right hand grasping it one-quarter of the distance from the lower end, is suggested in Encyclopædia Britannica. [3] While this interpretation may have given rise to such positions in 19th-century manuals, it probably arose by popular etymology .
Towards the mid-16th century, however, polearms and companion weapons besides the dagger and the cape gradually began to fade out of treatises. In 1553, Camillo Agrippa was the first to define the prima, seconda, terza, and quarta guards (or hand-positions), which would remain the mainstay of Italian fencing into the next century and beyond. [ 8 ]
Chinese polearms that resembled swordstaves were also commonly used in ancient China from the late Warring States/Qin dynasty to the Han dynasty era. These were known as the pi (鈹), translated into English as either "sword-staff" or "long lance", and a long bladed ranseur-like swordstaff weapon called the sha (鎩) with a blade that was around 62 cm (24 in) long (up to 80 cm (31 in) long ...