10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LANCE REST»
Discover the use of
lance rest in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
lance rest and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Jousting in Medieval and Renaissance Iberia
In my opinion it is better to place the lance in the lance-rest sooner because ifa
setback with the lance occurs during the ... time to compensate for it and you will
be able to make the encounter, and if you place the lance in the lance-rest later, ...
2
Handbook to Life in the Medieval World, 3-Volume Set
... distribute the shock over the entire body by bearing against the lance rest that
was lined with felt. the grate was adopted for jousting around the year 13 5 and
was used until the end of the 14th century, when the lance rest was integrated
into ...
Madeleine Pelner Cosman, Linda Gale Jones,
2009
3
The Tournament in England, 1100-1400
This device had a series of cog-like projections which interlocked with the lance
rest on the breastplate (arret de la cuirasse}. The grate and the lance rest
ensured that the jouster took the full weight of his own lance on his chest and
increased ...
Juliet R. V. Barker,
1986
4
Heroic Armor of the Italian Renaissance: Filippo Negroli and ...
... A mail brayette covered with black satin / Another cuirass black from the
hammer engraved and gilt with damascening, Our Lady on the breast, with long
tassets / And a breastplate for this cuirass and a backplate and a lance-rest / A
gor~ get, ...
Stuart W. Pyhrr, José-A. Godoy,
1998
5
The Armourer and His Craft
Arret, Fr. small decorated tabs used on straps for armour and horse-furniture, (J.
Arret de lance, Fr. lance-rest. Arriere-bras, Fr. see rerebrace. Arriere-hilt , the
counter-guard or knuckle-bow of the sword. Asbergo, a breastplate or cuirass, ...
Charles John Ffoulkes,
2008
6
Arms and Armour of Knights and Landsknechts in the ...
Mounted against the right—hand arm cut—out is a lance— rest, affixed to a thick
iron base—plate with two screws with thick domed heads. On the inside, the
penetrating screws engage a separate wrought—iron bridge. The left edge of the
...
7
Chivalry & the Perfect Prince: Tournaments, Art, and Armor ...
A lance rest on the breastplate supported the leveled lance and jousting armors
were sometimes fitted with an additional brace, called a queue, extending behind
the jouster's right arm, which ensured that the lance was aimed at the proper ...
8
Catalogue of the magnificent contents of Alton towers ... ...
997 A SUPERB CAP-A-PIE SUIT OF TILTING ARMOUR, fluted ; consisting of
salade-shapcd helmet, in one piece, with the gorget, back and breast plates,
roundels and lance rest, pauldrons, arm pieces and gauntlets, bat's-wing cuisses
and ...
Christie, Manson and Woods messrs, ltd, Bertram Arthur Talbot (17th earl of Shrewsbury.),
1857
9
Gothic and Renaissance Art in Nuremberg, 1300-1550
In order to accommodate the couched lance, the right pauldron had to be
severely cut back, far above the level of the lance rest (the hook attached to the
right side of the breastplate). The body area most exposed to lance thrusts was
the left ...
10
The Medieval Tournament
On the right side is a lance-rest (Rilst lha den) , and, as is usual in armour for both
Gestech and Scharfrennen, there is a heavy queue, termed in German a
Rasthaken, which acted as a counterpoise for holding the heavy lance used in
the ...