Mail and plate armour (plated mail, plated chainmail, splinted mail/chainmail) is a type of mail with embedded plates. Armour of this type has been used...

gradually replaced chain mail. In Europe, full plate armour reached its peak in the 15th and 16th centuries. The full suit of armour, also referred to as...

Chain mail (also known as chain-mail, mail or maille) is a type of armour consisting of small metal rings linked together in a pattern to form a mesh...

widely used by the Mughals. The use of Mail and plate armour in india declined in the 18th century. Mail and plate armour was documented Battle of Plassey in...

mirror armours, but have the same construction: Roman phalerae Byzantine klivanium (Κλιβάνιον) Japanese yukinoshita dō armour Mail and plate armour Mail (armour)...

Lamellar armour is a type of body armour made from small rectangular plates (scales or lamellae) of iron, steel, leather (rawhide), bone, or bronze laced...

typically show it on the limbs of a person wearing mail, scale armour, a coat of plates or other plate harness. Knights in effigy are depicted with leg...

various pieces of body armour worn from the medieval to early modern period in the Western world, mostly plate but some mail armour, arranged by the part...

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...

Laminar armour (from Latin: lamina – layer) is an armour made from horizontal overlapping rows or bands of, usually small, solid armour plates called lames...

After the rise of the Joseon, Korean combat armour saw a change from mainly using chain mail, plated mail, and lamellar armor to mostly brigandine. By the...

or earlier. Partial plate armour was popular from the Eastern and Southern dynasties (420–589), and mail and mountain pattern armour from the Tang dynasty...

armour were commonly used at different times by various cultures, including scale armour, lamellar armour, laminar armour, plated mail, mail, plate armour...

White armour, or alwyte armour, was a form of plate armour worn in the Late Middle Ages characterized by full-body steel plate without a surcoat. Around...

of plates is a form of segmented torso armour consisting of overlapping metal plates riveted inside a cloth or leather garment. The coat of plates is...

doublet) is a padded defensive jacket, worn as armour separately, or combined with mail or plate armour. Gambesons were produced with a sewing technique...

Dō (armour) Kabuto Karuta (Japanese armour) Kikko (Japanese armour) Kusari (Japanese mail armour) Lamellar armour Laminar armour O-yoroi Plated mail (tatami-do...

Scale armour is an early form of armour consisting of many individual small armour scales (plates) of various shapes attached to each other and to a backing...

soldiers and mounted cuirassiers. During the Late Middle Ages, plate armour was expensive and tailor-made for the wearer. Consequently, it was generally reserved...

wore brigandines, along with plate armour arm and leg protection, as well as a helmet. Even with the gambeson and the mail shirt, a wearer was not as well-protected...

single-layer robe') is the Japanese term for mail armour. Kusari is a type of armour used by the samurai class and their retainers in feudal Japan. When the...

armour was scale and lamellar made of hardened leather and iron, laced together onto a fabric backing, sometimes silk. Mail armour was also sometimes...

called a pizaine, was a collar of mail often worn with plate armour. The standard protected the throat and neck and usually extended over the shoulders;...

of plate armour consisting of small, horizontal lames that protect the small of the back or the buttocks. Usually a skirt of chain mail or a mail brayette...

leg armour; routinely made of mail and referred to as mail chausses. They generally extended well-above the knee, covering most of the leg. Mail chausses...

infantry and firearms. The first element of body armour to fall out of use was foot and leg protection. Around the same time plate and mail horse barding...

Sudanese hauberk European hauberk Japanese hauberk Mail and plate armour – a type of mail with embedded plates DeVries, Kelly (2012). Medieval Military Technology...

splinted armour, which consists of long metal splints connected by mail/leather used for arm and leg protection. The final description of metal plates riveted...

breastplate is the front portion of plate armour covering the torso. It has been a military mainstay since ancient times and was usually made of leather, bronze...

on the breast-plate, nine on the back-plate, and one on the shoulder-plate. Although no bullets actually penetrated through the armour, each bullet to...