European combat helmet design of late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
A surviving Spangenhelm, 6th century (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)
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The Spangenhelm, or segmented helmet, was a popular medieval European combat helmet design of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages.[1] They are often contrasted with Eastern lamellar helmets.
^From the German Wikipedia, in heraldry a different kind of helmet is known as a spangenhelm. The latter helmet was a fifteenth and sixteenth century tournament helmet style.
The Spangenhelm, or segmented helmet, was a popular medieval European combat helmet design of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. They are often...
covered in scale armor or, less often, plated mail. Their helmets, of the Spangenhelm type, would have been adapted throughout the Sasanian period. Also horses...
plate, cheek guards, and camail. They are distinct from the contemporary spangenhelm and crested helmets also found in Europe; unlike those, which are influenced...
a single sheet of iron or be of composite, segmented (spangenhelm) construction. The spangenhelm variety was, in general, the earlier method of construction...
cavalry helmet Black Mongolian helmet Iranian, 7th or 8th century CE Spangenhelm Early 15th century bascinet with hounskull visor 15th-century German...
probably a rarity. The Huns may have used a type of helmet known as the Spangenhelm, but Hunnic nobles may have worn helmets of various types. Ammianus reports...
May 2016. "Fólkvangr, Freyja welcomes you to the Field of the Host". Spangenhelm. 20 May 2016. Archived from the original on 15 September 2017. Retrieved...
superior protection than previous helmets, such as the nasal helm and spangenhelm, it limited the wearer's peripheral vision, and in addition to being...
tribe or clan symbols, such as animal drawings. Helmets were often of spangenhelm type, often with cheek and neck plates. Spears were used both for thrusting...
Chinese helmet from the Northern and Southern dynasties period 6th century Spangenhelm. Eastern European conical helmet from the 11th century German great helm...
that it was a Byzantine development. Early examples were made in the spangenhelm method, of a skull composed of framework filled with separate triangular...
Buskerud, Norway. This helmet was made of iron from four plates after the spangenhelm pattern. This helmet has a rounded cap, and there is evidence that it...
an terminus post quem of the Central and Western Asiatic pear-shape spangenhelm type helmets The David Collection helmet and its place in the evolution...
the Narona-type band helmet, the Leiden/Novae-type spangenhelm, and the Baldenheim-type spangenhelm. Niederstotzingen-type lamellar helmets were also in...
Kane, Njord (2019-09-02). History of the Vikings and Norse Culture. Spangenhelm Publishing. ISBN 978-1-943066-31-5. "Ship - 17th-century developments...
ISBN 978-0-19-215882-6. Kane, Njord (2019). History of the Vikings and Norse Culture. Spangenhelm Publishing. ISBN 978-1-943066-29-2. Kirby, D.P. (2000). The Earliest...
an terminus post quem of the Central and Western Asiatic pear-shape spangenhelm type helmets The David Collection helmet and its place in the evolution...
Sometimes made integrally with the hauberk, sometimes a separate piece. Spangenhelm 4th to 11th A metal (usually iron) frame with plates (metal, leather...
ISBN 978-0-8014-8530-5. Kane, Njord (2019). History of the Vikings and Norse Culture. Spangenhelm Publishing. ISBN 978-1-943066-29-2. Keynes, Simon; Lapidge, Michael (1983)...
been unarmored. Some of the wealthier men may have worn gambesons and spangenhelms, while the wealthiest might wear mail. As the Viking Age began, the leidang...
were more open helms such as the nasal helmet, and later forms of the spangenhelm. The lack of more facial protection lead to the evolution of more enclosing...
battlefield. They were eventually replaced by the ridge helmet and the Spangenhelm during the late imperial period. From early imperial times to after the...
and passim. Kane, Njord (2015). The Vikings: The Story of a People. Spangenhelm Publishing. p. 32. Ann Christys, Vikings in the South (London: Bloomsbury...
an terminus post quem of the Central and Western Asiatic pear-shape spangenhelm type helmets The David Collection helmet and its place in the evolution...
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