Cuisses
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Cuisses (poleyns directly attached to them. Whilst continental armours tended to have cuisses that did not protect the back of the thigh, English cuisses were typically entirely encapsulating, due to the English preference for foot combat over the mounted cavalry charges favoured by continental armies.
Cuisses could also be made of brigandine or splinted leather, but beginning around 1340 they were typically made from steel plate armour.[2] From 1370 onward they were made from a single plate of iron or steel.[2]
Ancient Greece
Perimeridia (
Ancient Greek: περιμηρίδια) and Parameridia (παραμηρίδια) were metal armour for covering the thighs.[3] Though not in common use in the ordinary Greek panoply, are shown sufficiently often on the monuments and vase-paintings as occasionally employed by Greek warriors at least as far back as the fifth century B.C. They are frequently mentioned by Greek writers, of the third century B.C. and downwards, but here almost exclusively as employed by cavalry, both for the rider and his horse (in addition, some writers call the protective armour of the horse parapleuridia (παραπλευρίδια), while others makes a further distinction of παραπλευρίδια for horses driven in chariots and παραμηρίδια for those ridden by the cavalry).[4][5]
Citations
- ^ A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor: In All Countries and in All Times, George Cameron Stone, Courier Dover Publications, Jul 2, 1999 P.245
- ^ a b Smith 2010, p. 70.
- ^ Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Perimeridia
- ^ A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), Perimeridia
- ^ Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Perimeridia
References
- Smith, R. (2010). Rogers, Clifford J. (ed.). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology: Volume I. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195334036.
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