Plate armour

Armour for legs and feet- Sabatons (first piece of armour to be put on, covering the knights feet), Greaves (plate armour covering/protecting the calves and ankles), Poleyns (plate armour protecting the knee cap), Cuisses (plate armour covering the thigh) and Spurs (attached to the heel of the foot by straps and were used to spur the knights horse). Armour for arms and hands- Basagues (small round shields used to defend the armpit), Rerebrace (used for the defence of the upper arm), Vambrace (used

Mortal Seeming: Standing 6 '4" joseph was a beauty to behold, otherworldly in grace and physique one would swear before you was an angel of masculine beauty. He was possessed of dark hair which hung to the back of his knees in flowing waves of midnight that was both thick and held a shine of health to it. His skin like poured moonlight passed across angular jawdropping features that lead the eye to wandering across them as if to feast and feed a hunger, and the more the wanton eye wandered the more

Ephesian 6:10-20 states Put on the whole armor of God that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the

mail required a lot of time and energy. So, they started using plate armor. Plate armor was cheaper to make making it more affordable and it provided a bit more protection than chainmail. Plate armor slowly started to replace chainmail armor, but chainmail was still being used with plate armor. One of the troubles with plate armor is that it can’t protect many of the joints. So, they continued using chainmail to protect areas that plate armor couldn’t like the armpit or the groin. Around the 15th-16th

He was too excited to even wonder who this Balthazar was. The new armor was just what he needed and he examined it carefully. It was wonderfully stylish with silver wolf emblems on the chest plate, gauntlets, gloves and boots. The helmet looked like the open mouth of a wolf with a visor to cover his face. His gauntlets also had wolf claws engraved on them. He didn’t even need a sword because now he could do hand-to-hand combat without one, if he so chose. Its most impressive feature, it had

Historical Fiction Novel Project “The Pale Horseman” by Bernard Cornwell, is in 871-899 AD in Wessex, an Anglo-Saxon territory in England. The main character, Uhtred, is a warrior. He was born a Viking but adopted into an Anglo-Saxon clan and as his story unfolds in a series of conflicts with his own clan, the church and outsiders, his background differences from Anglo-Saxons highlight many features of this time period. The author is careful to be historically accurate in many details, including

years. Many armor in history has used linens, leathers or animal hides, and a variety of metals. “In the 11th century bce, Chinese warriors wore armour made of five to seven layers of rhinoceros skin, and ox hides were similarly used by the Mongols in the 13th century ce. Fabric armour too has a long history, with thick, multilayered linen cuirasses (armour covering the body from neck to waist) worn by the Greek heavy infantry of the 5th century bce and quilted linen coats worn in northern India until

A Tale of Two Mammals: The Analysis of How to Make it in Society Connected by the delicate branches of the tree that sprouted from the constantly expanding lineage of the Mammalian family, the hedgehog and the armadillo are also separated by millions of years of evolution. The choice in animals for the poems did not fall under the laws of natural selection, they were hand selected to represent the separate, yet connected underlying messages. Paul Muldoon, author of “Hedgehog”, and Yusef Komunyakaa

it was made of 30 layers of silk, which in that day could stop a black powder bullet it was nicknamed “soft armor.” But then when firearms became more powerful it became useless. So a priest from Chicago made it better by weaving 1.6mm steel plate between four layers of silk, he proved it was “bullet proof” by having a man shoot at his chest from 10 paces (25 feet) away with a 44. Caliber handgun, when it hit him he said he only felt a tap. So the inventor tried to make a life off of his

The sand seemed to retreat in fear as the men clad in steel armour trod upon it. The crowds parted as the foreign men climbed the crumbling stone steps that approached the palace, a single strong soldier clad in thick armour considerably different from the group who had so uninvitedly approached the palace stepped forward and halted the group from proceeding. “State your business in Macedon!” the guard yelled menacingly. “We are simply here to negotiate with King Phillip” The leader of the group