Английская Википедия:Almain rivet

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Файл:Demi-armure MG 0793.JPG
Almain rivet half-armour, typically worn by Swiss or landsknechts in the 16th century. The tassets consist of five plates each, connected by sliding rivets.
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Almain rivet gauntlets of Emperor Maximilian I, c.1514. Museum of Fine Arts (Kunsthistorisches Museum), Vienna

An Almain rivet is a type of flexible plate armour created in Germany in about 1500. It was designed to be manufactured easily whilst still affording considerable protection to the wearer. It consisted of a breastplate and backplate with laminated thigh-guards called tassets.[1] Almain rivets were generally of fairly low quality, but they were cheap: a royal proclamation issued by Henry VIII in 1542 designated them at 7s 6d, which equated to one sixth of the cost of a suit of demi-lance armor.[2] Almain rivets were frequently purchased en masse as munitions-grade armour to equip royal armies or personal retinues.

Nomenclature

The term rivet derives from the "overlapping plates sliding on rivets" characteristic of this type of armour.[3] Almain is an Early Modern English term for "German" (still used in some poetic and/or archaic senses), from the French alemanique, from the mediaeval Latin alemanicus, from Alemanni, an early Germanic tribe.[4] The term was introduced in about 1530 and remained in use until about 1600. Based on the term almain-rivet, the word rivet itself acquired a meaning of "armour", attested (rarely) during the mid-16th century.[5]

See also

References

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  • Cornish, Paul. Henry VIII's Army. Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 1987. Шаблон:ISBN
  • Ffoulkes, Charles. The Armourer and his Craft. New York: Dover Publications, 1912. Шаблон:ISBN

External links

  1. Paul Cornish, Henry VIII's Army (Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 1987), 34.
  2. Cornish, Henry VIII's Army, 34.
  3. OED
  4. Larousse Dictionnaire de la Langue Francaise, Paris, 1979
  5. OED. Ffoulkes (1912:52) suggests that the term was from French revêtir, to clothe in, embellish with, from Latin vestire (Larousse, op.cit.)