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Hrtnberk - A gannent of mail which Cretan helmets of various shapes.
fitted over the whole body and sizes and patterns, first constructed
which was generally made in one of padded leather and then of
piece with the mail coif or hood.
bronze. followed by the famous
Attic Helmet, into the Norman era
Haute Piece - By 1430 the inner when either a conical or flat topped
edges of the pauldron had been helmet was combined with the mail
turned up as a fom of protection coi£ and ventail, to the various
for the neck. A few years later these types of metal helmet including the
bascinet, the snout type, the great
were attached to the guard braces.
bascinet, tlie barbet armet, sallet.
morion and burgonet.
Hindtasse - Worn on the opposite
side of the leg to the foretasse (q.v.).
Hood of Mail - The mail coif.
Hopütai - Part of the Athenean
army consisting of free citizens who
formed the main phalanx of the
heavy infantry of the early Greek
smy.
Haute Pieces
Horse Amour - The first attenipl
at horse armour consisted of the
Heater Shield - The type of shield mail barding used by the Roman
that succeeded the kite shaped catafractus in the 4th century. This
variety used by the Normans. It was was not successful and was dis-
rather sirndar to the bottom of a carded. The next attempt in the
flat iron but shaped to the body.
early 14th century consisted of metal
plates over the head, neck, chest
Heanme - The continental name for and fianks. These included the
a helmet.
clianfron, crinet, pey tral, crupper
and flanchard which were generally
Heh - The particular pattern of
used in conjunction with the capari-
helmet used in a tournament. This son or trapper as it was sometimes
had a jurting lower half of tlie part called. Later on, much of this was
covering the face wliich slightly discarded but the neck plates and
overlapped the upper hale and there chanfron were retained for another
were narrow slits for vision. It century or two.
appears almost impossible to have
been able to see out of a helm but, Hosting Harness - In this sense
providing the shoulders are hunched hosting means ' Batde ', therefore
and the head slightly bent fonvard the expression refcrs to battle
as though charging with a lance, armour.
visibility is comparatively good.
Hehet - A general term embracing
al1 the various types of head cover-
ing frorn the earlier Greek and