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Transitional armour describes the armour used in Europe around the 13th and 14th centuries, as body armour moved from simple mail hauberks to full plate armour. The couter was added to the hauberk to better protect the elbows, and splinted armour and the coat of plates provided increased protection for other areas.
Age of Armour. 14th century transitional suit of armour. During the 14th century armour styles were transitioning from primarily chainmail to full plate.
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In these fragmented post-Roman polities, metal armor represented an enormous investment of time, effort, and material wealth in societies that revolved around the payment of food rent. Since every miner, metalworker, smith, and apprentice represented another pair of hands who could not be put to work in the fields, a suit of fine maille was an enor...
During the Crusader period (1099-1291), chainmail armor developed to its greatest extent: the full-length hauberk was augmented by acoif (hood),chausses (leggings), sabatons (foot coverings), andmitons (mitten-gauntlets) all made from maille. Knights now frequently wore the great helm, enormous barrel-shaped steel helmets that were worn over layers...
Thus, armorers, knights, and soldiers began to experiment with alternatives to chainmail around the start of the 1200s CE. Some of this was likely systematic, but a lot was probably done as a matter of ad-hoc experimentation! Historians refer to these as “transitional armors”, since they were part of an experimental interregnum between the supremac...
By the end of the 14th century, medieval plate armor was being produced on a large scale for the first time since the Roman Empire. The fact that plate armor re-emerged in this period tells us a lot about the degree of interconnected trade networks that were required for the production of this kind of armor; it required the significant division of ...
Plate armor revolutionized warfare. Now, the battlefield was dominated by small (but increasingly large) numbers of heavily-armored mounted elites who were near-impossible to stop. Swords, spears, and most other ordinary infantry weapons were more or less useless against a fully-armored knight. Poorly-armed troops could overwhelm a lone knight by s...
Transitional armour is somewhere between mail and full plate, where vulnerable areas are reinforced with plate pieces. Learning the skills and processes of heat-treating iron, which was in plentiful and cheap supply (at least when compared to copper of antiquity), was a long process.
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Jun 1, 2018 · For the most part, combatants in the SSG opt either to go with transitional armour of the late 14th and very early 15th century, or sporting equipment. Really, our range goes from 1350 - 1450 or so. One of the underappreciated things about the surviving treatises is that they often depict details of arming clothing, footwear, and armour not shown anywhere else. Sometimes these are fanciful ...
Transitional armour describes the armour used in Europe around the 14th century, as body armour moved from simple maille hauberks to full plate. The couter was added to the hauberk to better protect the elbows, and splinted armour and the coat of plates provided increased protection for other...
