Armour & Weapons
Forfatter: Charles Ffoulkes
År: 1909
Forlag: At The Clarendon Press
Sted: Oxford
Sider: 112
UDK: 623 Ffou
With A Preface By Viscount Dillon, V.P.S.A. Curator Of The Tower Armouries
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CHAP. IV
PLATE ARMOUR
flutings of the scallop-shell (Fig. 24). The main lines of the
suit are heavier and more clumsy than those of the Gothic
variety. The breastplate is shorter, globose in form, and made
in one piece as distinct from the Gothic breastplate, which was
generally composed of an upper and lower portion. The pauldrons
are larger and the upstanding neck-guards more pronounced. The
Fig. 33. Gothic suit. Turin
Armoury.
Fig. 34. Maximilian suit. Vienna
Armoury, 1523.
coude and genouillière are both smaller than in the Gothic suit,
and fit more closely to the limbs. In imitation of the civilian dress
the solleret becomes shorter and broader in the toe. This variety
is known as the ‘ bee de cane ’ or ‘ bear-paw ’ soleret. Some
writers use the term Sabaton for the foot-defence of this period.
This term is found (sabataynes) in the Hastings manuscript referred
to in the preceding chapter. The pauldrons of the Maximilian