Anime (armor)

Anime (armor)
Information
Weapon type:	Protective weapon
Designations:	Anime, anime breastplates
Use:	armor
Working time:	around 16th century
Region of origin / ; author:	Europe , armory
Distribution:	Europe
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The anime , also known as “railed piece armor” or “cancer”, is armor and a protective weapon from Europe.

description

The anime is usually made of steel. It is a breastplate that is constructed like a lamella . The top piece, from the neck to the arms, is made in one piece. Below the arms, it consists of strip-shaped plates that are fastened horizontally and overlapping. The overlaps are laid out so that they are slightly open towards the top. This construction makes the tank very flexible, so that the wearer could move very easily. The disadvantage was the opening of the lamellas towards the top, as this arrangement meant that a blade, pushed down from above, could easily penetrate between the lamellas. As a result, this type of armor was only used briefly. A very fine example is on display in the Metropolitan Museum in New York.

literature

The Connoisseur: a magazine for collectors, Volume 155, Issue 2, Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1964, pages 227, 228.
Society of Antiquaries of London, Archaeologia, or, Miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity , Volume 80, The Society, 1930, p. 126.
Margery Corbett, RW Lightbown, The comely frontispiece: the emblematic title-page in England, 1550-1660, Routledge, 1979, ISBN 978-0-7100-8554-2
Johannes Schöbel, Jürgen Karpinski, Princely arms and armor: a selection from the Dresden collection , Verlag Barrie & Jenkins, 1975, page 32

Web links

Anime Armor from La Valletta owned by the Grand Master's Guard at Eve Anderson

Individual evidence

↑ Auguste Demmin, The historical development of war weapons from the Stone Age to the invention of the needle gun: a handbook of weapons , Verlag Seemann, 1869, page 596
↑ George Cameron Stone, Donald J. LaRocca, A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor: in All Countries and in All Times , Courier Dover Publications, 1999, page 10, ISBN 978-0-486-40726 -5

[1] Auguste Demmin, The historical development of war weapons from the Stone Age to the invention of the needle gun: a handbook of weapons , Verlag Seemann, 1869, page 596

[2] George Cameron Stone, Donald J. LaRocca, A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor: in All Countries and in All Times , Courier Dover Publications, 1999, page 10, ISBN 978-0-486-40726 -5