Armor
- Armour – overview—Types and history
- Mail armour – overview—Types and history.
- Ringmail – overview—What is ringmail?
- Spiked armour – overview—pros and cons.
- Chinese armour – overview—Style and history.
- Components of medieval armour—An alternate table.
Anything worn for protection but not considered as typical clothing
Read more about this topic: List Of Traditional Armaments
Famous quotes containing the word armor:
“When a strong man, fully armed, guards his castle, his property is safe. But when one stronger than he attacks him and overpowers him, he takes away his armor in which he trusted and divides his plunder.”
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 11:21.22.
“In such an armor he may rise and raid
The dark cave after midnight, unafraid....”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“Certain anthropologists hold that man, having discovered tools, ceased to evolve biologically. Animals, never having discovered them, continue to fashion drills out of their beaks, oars out of their hind feet, wings out of their forefeet, suits of armor out of their hides, levers out of their horns, saws out of their teeth. Whether this be true or not, all authorities agree that man is the tool-using animal. It sets him off from the rest of the animal kingdom as drastically as does speech.”
—Stuart Chase (1888–1985)