Decorative armor in various sizes. The armor protecting the body and attacks were usually metallic or too tough as...
Decorative armor in various sizes. The armor protecting the body and attacks were usually metallic or too tough as leather. Full armor consists of many pieces articulated together having reached up to number 250 in a single fighter with a weight of about 25 to 30 kilos, but the most common medieval armor and important are reduced to about twenty-five, divided into four groups of head, trunk and upper and lower extremities. ARMOR. - HEAD FOR SHELTER The helmet, helmet and the like protecting the top and consists of helmet, visor and barbera the helmet: it was the top of the helmet where there used to be the summit. The hood covering his face. The barbera for the mouth and chin The neck ruff defending ahead cubrenuca defending the neck from behind. ARMOR. - BODY FOR DEFENSE gorget or ruff in the upper chest and back, arriving to replace the ruff. Dickey, in the rest of the chest The purses arriving somewhat lower than the previous The escarcelones, kind of purses would stretch jointed knee The guardarrenes to the loins The Pancera for the belly, made of mesh The rump, to the buttocks, also made of mesh armor. - UPPER LIMB Shoulder pads, shoulder's Armguards the upper arm TheThe underarm dress shields in the struts at the elbow in the forearm Bracers crabs on the opposite side of the elbow mittens hands at the wrists and gauntlets in the fingers and hand ARMOR. - LOWER LIMB The Quixotes or leg loops for defense The knee to thigh knee leg greaves boots and shoes The foot shod to the sink or card, which was added to the hardware in the just and consisted of a escudito which focused on the top and left of the breastplate and who had painted the emblem and the motto of the noble knight.
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