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29-Jul-2016 00:27:05 - Last edited on 29-Jul-2016 00:28:08 by Venom1383
Annie, you still have not replied to my questions.
lol, oops, np Chasers, that was also my fault for not checking. I just thought it was a dream he had. I will edit-out my post. Heh, different characters would help.
Here's my next imgur post!
Spiky armour, probably from one of Fiore dei Liberi's treatises, or perhaps a joke or hoax I fell for. If this is authentic, it is one of the few rare depictions of spiked armour from history (unless this is depicting something else), this treatise dating to around the late 14th century (probably from around 1370-1405). I've not been able to specify the original user or source that uploaded this image to the internet, as I've not been able to find this with search engines. This figure wears the contemporary plate armour of his day but with added spikes on the vambraces, rerebraces, couters, sabatons, greaves, cuisses, and poleyns. Also seems to be wearing a crown atop his sallet. He wields an estoc or longsword (Oakeshott typology XVII) with a pear- or fig-shaped pommel, and cruciform hilt, gripping the sword by the handle and blade in half-swording technique, so as to utilize the weapon as a lever to wrench or wrestle opponents down, but also to spear with it into the gaps of armour or into the eye slits of a helmet. Fiore dei Liberi was an Italian fencing master of the late 14th century, known for making combat treatises in wrestling, armored combat, sword fighting, dagger fighting, mounted combat, dueling, and even how to throw a longsword like a javelin. He does not seem to specify the reason for spiked plate armour. Presumably, it would be useful for preventing unarmoured opponents wrestling with you, but also useful for kicking or punching with the spikes. Probably used for dueling rather than the battlefield. Gauntlets sometimes had gadlings, which were studs on the knuckles, and probably used as knuckle-dusters.
lol, oops, np Chasers, that was also my fault for not checking. I just thought it was a dream he had. I will edit-out my post. Heh, different characters would help.
A green pear.
Here's my next imgur post!
Spiky armour, probably from one of Fiore dei Liberi's treatises, or perhaps a joke or hoax I fell for. If this is authentic, it is one of the few rare depictions of spiked armour from history (unless this is depicting something else), this treatise dating to around the late 14th century (probably from around 1370-1405). I've not been able to specify the original user or source that uploaded this image to the internet, as I've not been able to find this with search engines. This figure wears the contemporary plate armour of his day but with added spikes on the vambraces, rerebraces, couters, sabatons, greaves, cuisses, and poleyns. Also seems to be wearing a crown atop his sallet. He wields an estoc or longsword (Oakeshott typology XVII) with a pear- or fig-shaped pommel, and cruciform hilt, gripping the sword by the handle and blade in half-swording technique, so as to utilize the weapon as a lever to wrench or wrestle opponents down, but also to spear with it into the gaps of armour or into the eye slits of a helmet. Fiore dei Liberi was an Italian fencing master of the late 14th century, known for making combat treatises in wrestling, armored combat, sword fighting, dagger fighting, mounted combat, dueling, and even how to throw a longsword like a javelin. He does not seem to specify the reason for spiked plate armour. Presumably, it would be useful for preventing unarmoured opponents wrestling with you, but also useful for kicking or punching with the spikes. Probably used for dueling rather than the battlefield. Gauntlets sometimes had gadlings, which were studs on the knuckles, and probably used as knuckle-dusters.
29-Jul-2016 00:43:25 - Last edited on 29-Jul-2016 00:43:46 by Azi Demonica
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