Adarga
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The adarga was a hard
appliques and borders.[1]
The adarga was a traditional defense employed by the Moorish
Conquistadores in the Americas and it continued to be used until the early 19th century by soldado de cuera in New Spain
. These adargas were often decorated with the Spanish coat-of-arms.
Some impressive examples of the adarga are preserved in the Royal Armoury of the
armory of the Mons Clara Monastery at Częstochowa, Poland.[1] The majority of surviving adargas are highly ornamental with painted decoration and were used by iberian nobles in tournament cavalry combat, particularly in the juego de las cañas (es) / jogo das canas (pt) ("game of canes"), a sport of the 16th and 17th centuries involving teams of horsemen who hurled javelins made of cane
at one another that had to be dodged or deflected with the adarga, imitating past battles against the Moors.
See also
References
- ^ ISBN 0-671-42257-X.
External links
- Adarga at History Wired
- The Feather Adarga of Philip II in the Real Armeria
- The Spanish Adarga
- Al-Andalus: the art of Islamic Spain, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Adarga (see index)