Guisarme
| Guisarme | |
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| Information | |
| Weapon type: | Polearm |
| Designations: | Gesa, Gisarme, Gysarme, Jasarme |
| Use: | weapon |
| Creation time: | approx. 11th century |
| Working time: | approx. 11th - 19th century |
| Region of origin / author: |
England |
| Distribution: | Europe |
| Overall length: | approx. 250 cm |
| Handle: | Wood |
| Particularities: | Blades in the shape of a scythe or in the shape of a Knipp |
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A Guisarme (also Gesa , Gisarme , Gysarme , Jasarme ) was one in Europe common rod weapon coming out of the farm tool of Sense emerged.
history
The Guisarme was developed from the scythe. In many older specialist books it is assigned to the glaive , the partisan or the battle ax , but belongs to the war or storm scythes . The first examples of the Guisarme are already described in England in the 12th century. It was a popular and widespread weapon in the Middle Ages, probably also because it was easy and cheap to manufacture. The Guisarme - or the storm scythes - was used from the 11th century to the beginning of the 19th century.
description
The Guisarme consists of a more or less long or wide scythe blade , which is reinforced on the back. Most versions have another narrow and pointed blade on the back of the blade. This blade is short and slightly curved upwards or long and straight. In other designs, a smaller pusher blade is attached to the tip of the scythe blade. In some versions, the blade does not resemble a scythe blade, but rather the blade of a hip . There are Guisarmen from England , Germany , Italy and France .
literature
- 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, ISBN 978-0-486-40726-5 (reprint).
- Wendelin Boeheim : Handbook of the armory. Reprint d. Ed. Leipzig 1890, Fourier Verlag, Wiesbaden 1985, ISBN 978-3-201-00257-8 .
- Edwin Tunis: Weapons: A Pictorial History. Verlag JHU Press, 1999, new edition, ISBN 978-0-8018-6229-8 , google.de/books limited preview in the Google book search.
- David Nicolle : Arms and Armor of the Crusading Era, 1050-1350. Verlag Kraus International Publications, 1988, ISBN 978-0-527-67128-0 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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, ISBN 978-0-486-40726-5 (Reprint), p. 255.
- ↑ Wendelin Boeheim: Handbook of Armament. Reprint of the Leipzig 1890 edition, Fourier Verlag, Wiesbaden 1985, ISBN 978-3-201-00257-8 , p. 353.
- ^ Eugène Viollet-le-Duc : Guisarme . In: Dictionnaire raisonné du mobilier français de l'époque carlovingienne à la renaissance . 1874, p. 492 ff. (French) Textarchiv - Internet Archive