From Encyclopedia
- Arquebus
- Also called Harquebus, Hackbut or Hagbush. A short gun used by infantry throughout the sixteenth and early seventeenth…
- Compound-Hilt & Complex-Guard
- Term for the many forms of hilts in Renaissance and on some late-Medieval swords. Ususally consist of finger-rings,…
- Falling buffe
- Hinged, face part of a helmet. Can be secured by a leather strap and has flexible lames so it can be lowered for better…
- Lucerne hammer
- A staff weapon with a hammer-head balanced by a fluke, popular with Swiss infantry in both the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
