Encyclopedia of historical weapons - Xiphos
Bronze sword with a tanged metal blade fitted into a plain wooden hilt.
From Encyclopedia
- Court-sword
- See Small-Sword.
- 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…
- Riser
- Opposite of a fuller. Makes a sword more rigid yet with a flixible spine.
- Doublet
- A man's close-fitting jacket with or without sleeves, worn chiefly from the 14th to 16th centuries.
