Ancient Armour and Weapons in Europe: From the Iron Period of the Northern Nations to the End of the Thirteenth CenturyHewitt, John
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Ancient Armour and Weapons in Europe: From the Iron Period of the Northern Nations to the End of the Thirteenth Century
Hewitt, John
Armor; Weapons
Chausses, iron, 134;
studded, Pt. ii. 134, Pt. iii. 243, 255;
of chain-mail, 241;
of chain-mail, laced behind, 241;
of banded-mail, 242;
with poleyns, 242.
Chausson, 242;
with knee-pieces, 243.
Childebert I., 30, 47.
--------- II., 18.
Chinese armour, 120.
------- incendiary weapons, 331.
Chivalry, 94, 97.
Church, armed contingent of, 9.
Circle, the ornament of the coif and hood of mail, Pt. iii. 235, 237.
Clavones, 347.
Clergy militant, Pt. i. 14, Pt. ii. 108, 113, 153, Pt. iii. 220.
Clientes, 196, 208.
Clovis, 9, 17.
Club, 324.
Code, military, Pt. ii. 103.
Cœnomanici, 9.
Coif of mail, continuous, Pt. ii. 130;
flat-topped, Pt. iii. 235;
rounded, 235;
how fastened, 235;
worn with or without other head-defence, 236;
under-coif, 238;
with, front of plate, 291.
Coin, with figure of a Frankish warrior, 31.
Collarium, Pt. iii. 234.
Communal militia, Pt. i. 99, Pt. ii. 166, Pt. iii. 195.
Connoissances, Pt. ii. 167, Pt. iii. 196.
Constables, Pt. iii. 211;
of bowmen, Pt. iii. 214;
of cavalry, Pt. iii. 215.
Contus, 155.
Copita, 348.
Coterelli, 99.
Coudières, 234.
Coustillers, 196, 204.
Crest, fan, for helm, 142;
for knight, 347, 368;
for horse, 347, 368.
Croc, 324.
Cross-bow, Pt. ii. 158, Pt. iii. 325;
various kinds of, 326, 353.
Cross-bows figured, 201, 205.
Cross-bowmen, mounted, Pt. iii. 195, 202;
in thirteenth century, 201;
wearing armour, 204;
placed on the wings, 225.
Cuirie, Pt. iii. 240, 368.
Cultellus, Pt. ii. 154, Pt. iii. 210, 314.
Cultellarius, 155.
Culvertage, Pt. iii. 213 and _note_.
Cuneus, Pt. i. 16, Pt. iii. 223.
Cuton Moor, battle of, 108.
Dagger, Pt. i. 7, 43, 51, Pt. ii. 110, 154, Pt. iii. 318;
of bronze and iron, Pt. i. 53;
inlaid, 53;
carved on knightly tomb, Pt. iii. 318;
at Durham, of the thirteenth century, 318.
Daggers figured, 52, 244, 283.
Dagger-sheath, Pt. i. 43, 53.
Danes, Pt. i. 12.
Danish axe, Pt. i. 12, Pt. iii. 219, 320.
Destrier, Pt. iii. 197, 340.
Divers employed against shipping, Pt. ii. 177.
Duel, Legal, 375.
Eagle, Imperial, 164, 332.
Effigies, knightly, Pt. iii. 193;
works illustrative of, 194 _note_.
Engines, military, Pt. i. 87, Pt. ii. 173, Pt. iii. 224, 348;
Arabic in thirteenth century, 329.
Eorl, 9, 38.
Espée à l'estoc, 314.
Esquire, Pt. ii. 95, Pt. iii. 195.
Espringale, Pt. iii. 224, 353.
Exempts, 9.
Exercises of military aspirants, Pt. i. 83, Pt. ii. 181, 185, 188.
Falarica, 89.
Falchion, Pt. iii. 312.
--------- figured, 313.
Falkirk, battle of, 217.
Falx, faus, or falso, Pt. iii. 211, 323.
Faussar, 324.
Female warriors, Pt. i. 15.
------ spies, 209.
Fetel, 10.
Feudal levy, Pt. i. 95, Pt. ii. 103, Pt. iii. 195.
Fitzstephen, his description of London games in the twelfth
century, 185.
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