Encyclopedia of historical weapons - Mace
Metal ball attached to a wooden handle. All steel in the later times. Often a symbol of power.
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- Gauntlet
- Armored glove mostly consisting of a single plate for the back of the hand and a smaller and flexible part of overlapping plates for the fingers. See…
- 'Maximilian' armour
- A modern term applied to the style of early sixteenth century armour characterized by narrow, parallel fluting, popular during the…
- Pommel
- Also called pummel. A variously shaped counterweight to the sword blade, riveted to the end of the sword tang above' the …
- Sabre
- A sword with a curved, single-edged blade (probably originally derived from Eastern scimitars).
