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times quilted, to which smail plates generally made in one piece with
were lacd as a means of body pro- the hauberk.
tecdon. The plates were so arranged
that there was always a double Cohort - A Roman unit of 600
thickness of metaI.
men.
Code of CàivaIry - It is almost irn- Collar - Generally constmcted of
possible to reconcile the code under plates, it replaced the gorget during
which the Knights of the Middle the 16th century.
Ages lived and fought and the near-
est we can corne to it is by referring Conical Hehet - Generally refers
to Leon Gautier, a French scholar to the Norman type helmet, either
who devoted the greater part of his of pointed or 0at-topped design.
life to the study of the literature of
chivalry. Frorn his researches,
Gautier worked out what he des-
cribed as Lis ten cornmandments of
Knjghtly conduct. These were:
1. Unswerving belief in the Church
and obedience to her teachings.
2. Willingness to defend
Church.
3. Respect and pity for al1 weak-
ness and steadfastness in defend-
ing them.
4. Love of country.
5. Refusal to retreat before the
Conical Helmet
enemy.
6. Unceasing and merciless war
against the jnfidel.
7. Strict obedience to the Feudal tial to the armourer, in order to
overlord. so long as this duty make his product so that it would
did not conflict with duty 10 protect the wearer and yet not
God.
hinder bis movements, to have a
8. Loyalty to truth and Co the sculpter's understanding of human
pledged word.
anatomy. He had to understand the
9. Generosity in giving. the Contours of Armonr - It was essen-
play of every muscle and the hing-
10. Championship of the right and ing of every joint both human and
the good in every place and at in tlie metal. As the result the con-
times against the forces of evil. tours of amour foltowed those of
the figure it was designed to protect.
Cod Pieces - The front part of the
skirt of the armour which was often Copper - Between the age of the
replaced by a piece of mail. stone weapons which terminated
about 5000 B.C. and the inception
Coi - A kind of avenlail made of of bronze about 200 B.C. the only
leathcr or canvas. The name coif metal available for weapons was
has also been given to the close fit- copper. This material, in very rough
thg mail hoods worn at the time of fom, was used both for swords and
the Battle of Hastings. These were daggers, the blades of which had
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