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Helmet
A hard head defence for war and later sport. Not close-helmet or bascinet as specialty forms alone, and not every named myth helm.
Also known as Helm
Helmet is historically related to Iron.
Meyrick’s armour catalogue seats helmets among iron and steel head defences of many forms. A named helmet beside iron as ordinary shell metal, not close-helmet or bascinet as specialty types alone.
from Samuel Rush Meyrick · A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour, 1824
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Close helmet is historically related to Helmet.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the close-helmet among fully enclosing hinged-visor helms of later plate harness, keeping the form in the helmet neighborhood rather than as an open burgonet or Italian armet twin alone. A named close-helmet in that antient-armour speech, not a great-helm pot and not a morion comb crest.
from Samuel Rush Meyrick · A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour, 1824
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Bascinet is historically related to Helmet.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the bascinet among pointed open and visored helms of later medieval harness. A named bascinet in that antient-armour speech, not a great-helm enclosure, not a sallet tail, and not an armet hinge suite.
from Samuel Rush Meyrick · A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour, 1824
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Burgonet is historically related to Helmet.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the burgonet among open peaked helms with cheekpieces of later sixteenth-century field and parade use. A named burgonet in that antient-armour speech, not a close-helmet enclosure and not a morion comb alone.
from Samuel Rush Meyrick · A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour, 1824
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Sallet is historically related to Helmet.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the sallet among flared rear-tailed helms of later fifteenth-century harness, often worn with a bevor. A named sallet in that antient-armour speech, not a bascinet point and not a morion crest.
from Samuel Rush Meyrick · A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour, 1824
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Armet is historically related to Helmet.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the armet among close-fitting hinged Italian and European helms of later plate harness. A named armet in that antient-armour speech, not a bascinet, not a sallet, and not a close-helmet English twin flatten alone.
from Samuel Rush Meyrick · A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour, 1824
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Morion is historically related to Helmet.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the morion among comb-crested open helms of later sixteenth-century infantry and parade. A named morion in that antient-armour speech, not a cabasset almond bowl and not a sallet tail.
from Samuel Rush Meyrick · A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour, 1824
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Cabasset is historically related to Helmet.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the cabasset among almond-shaped open infantry helms of later sixteenth-century practice, often Spanish. A named cabasset in that antient-armour speech, not a morion with tall comb and not a pickelhaube dump.
from Samuel Rush Meyrick · A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour, 1824
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Barbute is historically related to Helmet.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the barbute among open-faced Italian helms with T or Y cheek cut of later fifteenth-century practice. A named barbute in that antient-armour speech, not a sallet, not a close-helmet, and not a bascinet twin flatten.
from Samuel Rush Meyrick · A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour, 1824
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Nasal helm is historically related to Helmet.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the nasal helm among conical early-medieval helms with a nose-guard. A named nasal-helm in that antient-armour speech, not a great-helm enclosure, not a spangenhelm band construction alone, and not a bascinet.
from Samuel Rush Meyrick · A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour, 1824
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Great helm is historically related to Helmet.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the great helm among fully enclosing cylindrical helms of later high-medieval practice. A named great-helm in that antient-armour speech, not a nasal-helm, not a bascinet, and not a frog-mouth joust form alone.
from Samuel Rush Meyrick · A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour, 1824
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Kettle hat is historically related to Helmet.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the kettle-hat (chapel-de-fer) among wide-brimmed iron war-hats of later medieval infantry. A named kettle-hat in that antient-armour speech, not a great-helm enclosure and not a burgonet cheekpiece form.
from Samuel Rush Meyrick · A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour, 1824
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Spangenhelm is historically related to Helmet.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the spangenhelm among early segmented helms of metal bands joining plates or a bowl. A named spangenhelm in that antient-armour speech, not a nasal-helm as nose-guard alone and not a great-helm pot.
from Samuel Rush Meyrick · A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour, 1824
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Frog-mouth helm is historically related to Helmet.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the frog-mouth helm among heavy jousting helms with a horizontal vision slit. A named frog-mouth-helm in that antient-armour speech, not a great-helm field form alone and not a close-helmet parade visor.
from Samuel Rush Meyrick · A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour, 1824
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sources
- A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour · Samuel Rush Meyrick
Samuel Rush Meyrick, A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour (1824).