From Encyclopedia
- Coat-armor
- Top-covering piece of clothing. Popular in tournaments where it presented the beholder’s coat of arms.
- Compound-Hilt & Complex-Guard
- Term for the many forms of hilts in Renaissance and on some late-Medieval swords. Ususally consist of finger-rings,…
- Dolabra
- Axe-like tool/weapon used by legionnaires; socketed head attached to a wooden handle.
- Gladius
- The Legions patterned their short swords after those of the Spanish Celts. The historian, Polybius, says they were introduced into the army during…
