Encyclopedia of historical weapons - Genuillieres
Plate pieces to protect the knee.
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- Burgonet
- A light, open-faced helmet popular in the sixteenth century as an alternative to the close-helmet for light cavalry. It was usually…
- Mitten gauntlet
- A gauntlet with articulated transverse lames covering the fingers, rather than the fingers each being separately protected by a series of…
- Quillions
- Special (Renaissance) term for two straight or curved cross-guards (front and back). Called just cross or guard when on Medieval …
- Targe
- Small, more flat wooden shield covered with leather or metal-trimmed, later all- steel.
