Article: Art infused with purpose. (late medieval armor art lesson; includes related material) (Cover Story)

Dictionary definition: plate armor
The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military;      247 words ...plate armor protective armor of metal plates, especially as worn in medieval times by mounted knights.

Article: Imaging body armor
Military Medicine;  April 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... the principal component of soft armor, has favorable photon attenuation characteristics. Plate armor of composite material also did not ... Delaware Army National Guard. A plate armor sample was provided by the Office ...

Article: Passion turns to profit for Renaissance man and his armor ...
Porterville Recorder (Porterville, CA);  November 28, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... you've stepped back in time. Plate armor gauntlets, breastplates and helmets ... own armor. "I wanted a set of armor and I knew the only way I could ... re looking for, a full set of plate armor can run from $1,800 to $25 ...

Article: THE KNIGHT IN SHINING ARMOR RETURNS
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  November 10, 1991 ;     700+ words ... ... 1400. For most of the Middle Ages, in fact, armor wasn't what we today think of as armor. It consisted mostly of suits of mail, constructed from interlinked steel rings. Plate armor was developed around 1350 as a defensive response ...

Article: Arms and the Man: The Curious Inaccuracy of Medieval Arms and ...
Film & History;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... it is. It is as if the armor was "written" in an unfamiliar ... the Garden State suit of armor itself is commendably accurate ... reasonably Italianate suit of plate armor, replete with a cod piece ... succeeds where other filmic armors fail. Consider the armor ...

Article: En garde! A Minneapolis museum curator and retired Army reservist ...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  January 15, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... preview of the show. Over the centuries, changes in armor design have been driven largely by developments ... mail, soldiers began adding steel plates to their armor. Then gunpowder made plate armor pretty much useless on the battlefield. Swords ...

Article: What's that noise? Just a guy making custom-built suits of ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  December 27, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... culminate her studies: a full suit of armor, custom-fit, hand-made, in ... were books about knights in shining armor, and he devoured them even as he ... association. The first thing he wanted was plate armor, but nobody knew how to make it ...