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In the United Kingdom, a guildhall is usually a town hall: in the vast majority of cases, the guildhalls have never served as the meeting place of any specific guild. A suggested etymology is from the Anglo Saxon "gild ", or "payment"; the guildhall being where citizens came to pay their rates. The London Guildhall was established around 1120. [1]
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 ...
The Merchant Taylors' Hall in York, England, is a medieval guildhall near the city wall in the Aldwark area of the city. History. Interior of the main hall.
Arming points are reinforced sections of a gambeson or arming doublet where pieces of body armor were laced on. [1] Illustration of arming points and tresses on a doublet. During the Medieval and Renaissance periods of European history, arming points allowed heavy armor to be fastened securely to a cloth undergarment via cloth or leather laces. [2]
The Guildhall of St George is the largest surviving medieval guildhall in the country. It is a Grade I listed building. [ 21 ] Built of brick, and of two storeys with a gable roof , its dimensions are 32.6 x 8.8 m (107 x 29 feet). [ 22 ]
The Great Guildhall, Tallinn. The Great Guild (Estonian: Suurgild, German: Große Gilde) was a guild for merchants and artisans, operating in Tallinn from at least the 14th century [1] until 1920. [2] It was based in the Great Guild hall, a Gothic building in the historical centre of Tallinn, today housing the Estonian History Museum.
Welcome to the world of buhurt, a modern medieval combat sport where athletes wearing suits of armor fight with heavy metal swords, axes and maces.
The building was built in the medieval style between 1340 and 1342 and much altered and extended in 1460. [1]The guildhall originally served as the headquarters of the merchant guild of St Mary, [2] and subsequently of the united guilds of the Holy Trinity, St Mary, St John the Baptist and St Katherine, [3] which merged in 1392.