10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VAMPLATE»
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1
The Archaeological Journal
By JOHN HEWITT. JOUSTING VAMPLATE OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY,
FROM THE ROYAL ARTILLERY MUSEUM AT WOOLWICH. The High Vamplate
for the jousting-lance here figured is from the original preserved in the Royal
Artillery ...
2
The Armourer and His Craft
Archegaye, a staff sharpened at both ends carried by estradiots, XV cent.
Archibuso, It. see arquebus. Arcioni, It. the fore and aft peaks of the saddle. Arcon
, the saddle-bow. Arescuel, the grip of a lance, R. Arest de lance, vamplate, ...
Charles John Ffoulkes,
2008
3
Handbook to Life in the Medieval World, 3-Volume Set
... or crownackles. these permitted the jouster to thrust his opponent firmly without
the blade's penetrating his armor or body. the vamplate was the hand guard
adopted routinely in the 14th century, customarily made of iron, conical in shape,
...
Madeleine Pelner Cosman, Linda Gale Jones,
2009
Vamplate of lance of the sinteenth century. Museum of Dresden. 42. Vamplate of
lance of the sixteenth century. Meyn'd: Collection43. Vamplate of lance of the
sixteenth century. llfqrr'ek (7th 44. lance-rest (Bisthadm in German) of the middle
of ...
5
A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and ...
434. Did labour to mnke valure, strength, choler, and hatred, to an- swere the
proportion of bis love, which was infinite. Ibid. p. 251. VAMPLATE, or
VAUNTPLATE. The armour in the front of the arm ; called also the vambrace, from
avant bras.
6
The Tournament in England, 1100-1400
This left the lance arm vulnerable and so the vamplate was developed in the
fourteenth century. The vamplate was a convex, circular metal guard on the lance
immediately in front of the hand grip. It gave protection to the hand and, as it ...
Juliet R. V. Barker,
1986
7
Archaeologia: Or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity
1 Cornal, orcoronel; the head of a tilting lance, so called from its resemblance to
a little crown. k Vamplate. A round plate or shield of iron, fixed at the end of the
tilting lancr, to guard the hand. c Grapers. Hooks for the tilting lancet. Fr. Agrafe«.
8
European Weapons and Armour: From the Renaissance to the ...
It was generally without legharness, vambraces, pauldrons or gauntlets, the large
vamplate, much bigger than in lances for the gestech, and the renntartsche, a
shield covering all the left arm, side and even the chin (in a special little beard-
like ...
9
The Medieval Tournament
The lance, tipped with a coronal, is lighter than that employed in the German
Gestech and in Scharfrennen and the vamplate is circular in form. Feather
plumes are worn. Plate 46 pictures the Gestech or German joust (Das gemeine
deutsche ...
10
Gothic and Renaissance Art in Nuremberg, 1300-1550
278 KUNZ LOCHNER Chanfron and Vamplate Nuremberg, about 1 5 55 Steel,
etched, partly gilded, and painted 22'/2 x 14 '/4 in. (70 x 60 cm.) New York, The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, I 92 1 21.42 This chanfron was part of
a ...