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
Horse, buried in the grave of warrior, 80, 83 _note_;
spare in the field of battle, 116;
Spanish, Pt. ii. 173, Pt. iii. 339;
of William the Conqueror, 173;
with fan-crest, 286;
breeds of, 339;
horses of contending knights fight also, 340;
armed horses come into use in England, 344.
Horse furniture, Pt. i. 79, Pt. ii. 169, Pt. iii. 340;
rich, 80, 340;
of chain-mail, Pt ii. 169, Pt. iii. 197, 335, 341, 343;
of cloth, 335;
of silk, 336;
quilted, 341, 343;
armoried, 341, 345, 347.
Horse troops, Pt. i. 17, Pt. ii. 103, Pt. iii. 195.
Hourds, 358 _note_.
Hungarians, 13.
Húscarlas, 10, 38.
Icelanders, 11.
Irish troops, Part ii. 103.
Iron Period, 2.
Italy, troops in, Pt. i. 12, Pt. iii. 195, 218.
Javelin, Part i. 29, Pt. ii. 156, Pt. iii. 325.
Jazerant armour, Pt. i. 64, Pt. ii. 111.
Joust, 182.
Jousts of Peace, 368.
Knee-pieces, 243.
Knife (see Dagger).
Knight bachelor, 95.
------ banneret, 95.
Knights, of low degree, 96;
tied to saddle, 172;
effeminate, 188;
perform every kind of military duty, 222;
equipment of in 1298, 292.
Lance (see Spear).
Legal Duel, 375.
Leg-bands, Part i. 65, Pt. ii. 134.
---------- defences, 134.
Levy, feudal, Pt. i. 95, Pt. ii. 103, Pt. iii. 195.
Levy, general, Pt. i. 97.
London pastimes in the twelfth century, 185.
Mace, Pt. i. 57, Pt. ii. 153, Pt. iii. 321.
Machicoulis, 357 _note_.
Maître des Arbalestriers de France, 204.
Mallet, 207.
Mangona, Pt. i. 88, Pt. ii. 179, Pt. iii. 348.
Mangonella, 179;
sea-mangonel, 325, 352;
Arabian, 330.
Mantle, 133, 137.
Manufacture of arms and armour, Pt. ii. 162, Pt. iii. 293, 316, 320.
Massue, 324.
Mate-Griffon, 176.
Men-at-arms, Pt. ii. 103, Pt. iii. 197.
Mercenary troops, Pt. i. 99, Pt. ii. 115.
Mines, Pt. ii. 180;
defiances in, 181;
knightly vigils in, 181.
Misericorde, 319.
Monk of St. Gall, his description of the armour of Charlemagne, 8.
Monument of victory in the Campagna di Roma, 361.
Morning-star, 57, 58.
Musculus, 88.
Musical instruments, Pt. ii. 168, Pt. iii. 338.
Mustilers, 367.
Necromancers, 118.
Normans, Pt. i. 17, Pt. ii. _passim_.
Odo, bishop of Bayeux, his armour and arms, 113, 131.
Omens consulted for military purposes, 17.
Oriflamme, Pt. ii 165, Pt. iii. 333.
Otho the Great, ceremonies at his coronation, 31.
Panzar, Part i. 12, Pt. ii. 109.
Pay of knights in the time of King John, 213;
of knights and others in the reign of Edward I., 214.
Pennon, Pt. i. 95, Pt. ii. 103, 167, Pt. iii. 338.
------- of French King to be borne by the Chief Varlet Tranchant, 334.
Petrary, Turkish, 356.
Pictavi, 9.
Pigacia, 137.
Pike, Pt. i. 57, Pt. ii. 162.
Pilete, 207, 342.
Plastron-de-fer, 119.
Plate-armour introduced, 227.
Pluteus, 88.
Poisoned weapons, Pt. i. 40, 54, 59.
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