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Mace, a legandary medieval weapon
Posted on June 9th, 2009 3 commentsLearn About the Medieval Mace
Capable of slamming its way through the most tough armor, a mace is a weapon of offense, made of steel, iron, or latten. The first ceremonial maces, which they later became known as, were made to protect the king. They were born by the sergeants- at- arms, who were royal bodyguards started in France by Phillip II, and also in England, most likely by Richard I. When the 14th century rolled around, there was a noticeable difference in maces, since now most of them were covered in precious metals. There is shown to be a civic mace in the 13th century, even though there are no known examples from the time period now in existence. Since the king’s sergeants were worthy of having civic maces that were encrusted with expensive metals, they were given ornamented civic maces because of this. Read the rest of this entry »
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Medieval jouseter, leather gauntlet gloves
Posted on June 4th, 2009 No commentsA Better Understanding of Gauntlet Gloves and Their Origin
Gauntlet is a word formed from a French diminutive. This root meaning is gant, defined as glove. A large form of glove is commonly described as a gauntlet; and the steel-plated gloves of medieval armor is a good example. Since the hands were so very vulnerable during the existence of hand-to-hand combat, gauntlets were quite popular. With the onset of new weapons, however, gauntlets lost their demand due to a decrease in hand-to-hand combat. Read the rest of this entry »
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King Arthur – The knights of the Round Table, Grail Legend
Posted on June 3rd, 2009 No commentsThe Round Table of Knights
In the days of King Arthur, the round table was used to keep Arthur’s knights from fighting with each other over who had the higher status. Where the round table comes from is not known. It isn’t talked about by Geoffrey of Monmouth, and the first recorded mention is from Wace, where his translator, Layamon, describes a fight, on a particular Yuletide day, among the knights for the highest status with Arthur, and describes the massacre that happened that day. Arthur sought revenge for the massacre by killing the family of the knight who began the conflict, and then cut off all of his women’s noses. To keep this from happening any more, a very clever workman of Cornwall told Arthur that he could design a table that 1600 knight could sit at and all be equal. This offer was accepted, and the man made the round table, which resulted in peace among the knights Read the rest of this entry »