From Encyclopedia
- Lucerne hammer
- A staff weapon with a hammer-head balanced by a fluke, popular with Swiss infantry in both the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
- Sallet
- Helmet with (usually) a hinged visor and a long tail for protecting the back of the neck. Comes in many forms. In England known as a …
- Steel
- An alloy of wrought iron and carbon, capable of being hardened by heating and then quenching (rapid cooling) in water. This hardening process could…
- War hammer
- Also called martel and horseman's pick. A short-hafted hammer used mainly in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries…
