{"id":660,"date":"2016-06-27T15:22:59","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T15:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/blog\/2016\/06\/27\/what-type-of-helm-should-i-look-for-as-a-14th\/"},"modified":"2020-02-14T12:39:45","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T18:39:45","slug":"what-type-of-helm-should-i-look-for-as-a-14th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/blog\/2016\/06\/27\/what-type-of-helm-should-i-look-for-as-a-14th\/","title":{"rendered":"Helms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What type of helm should I look for as a 14th century English fighter or 12ty century Norman for heavy fighting?<\/p>Anonymous<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n

I had to reach out to some martial types for this answer.<\/p>\n

Master Sir Edwin AtteBridge says, \u201cTwelfth century, the famous \u201cnorman\u201d conical helm with nasal that we\u2019re all officially wearing in the SCA. 14th century generally bascinet, although kettle hat is also appropriate (but less popular because of SCA handicaps). Inbetween, slowly-evovling \u201cbarrel\u201d or \u201cbucket\u201d helms. Basically they took the norman design, started adding a faceplate and covering more of the head, simplifying the construction while they were at it, and when they were done realized that the pointed top they had started with was a better design and went back to an improved version of it. The 13th century is full of dead ends like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/a>

Norman Conical Helm<\/h2>\n

Wikipedia entry: [link<\/a>] –<\/p>\n

be sure to look at the Notes and External Links<\/p>\n<\/a>

Bascinet<\/h2>\n

\u201cSpotlight: The 14th Century Bascinet\u201d
by Alexi Goranov
MyArmory.com: [link<\/a>]\n

Wikipedia entry: [link<\/a>] – be sure to look at the Notes and External Links<\/p>\n

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\"image\"<\/figure>\n

Image from the Wallace Collection: [link<\/a>]Visored bascinet
Unknown Artist \/ Maker
<\/a>Milan, Italyc. 1390 – c. 1410
Low-carbon steel, air-cooled, copper alloy and leather
Height: 26 cm
Width: 37.4 cm, beak to back of skull
Weight: 2.005 kg, without visor
Weight: 0.82 kg, visor
Weight: 1.24 kg, aventail
Label: Royal Archaeological Society label marked 25 in ink
A69European Armoury I<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What type of helm should I look for as a 14th century English fighter or 12ty century Norman for heavy fighting? Anonymous I had to reach out to some martial types for this answer. Master Sir Edwin AtteBridge says, \u201cTwelfth century, the famous \u201cnorman\u201d conical helm with nasal that we\u2019re all officially wearing in the SCA. … Continue reading “Helms”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[228],"tags":[156,213,195,210,215,211,209,198,212,214,116,123,112],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4eTPU-aE","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions\/1028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}