![]() ![]() Their artisanal workshop in St-Laurent, Quebec has become synonymous with painstakingly accurate, high-quality replica arms and armor. Our histprical reproduction of an Armet Helmet is made for us the truly excellent Darksword Armory. Its service straddles two worlds: it was used both by soldiers in full-plate, wielding greatswords in the Wars in Lombardy, and by light cavalrymen on horseback shooting snaplock pistols in the face of bombardment by cannon almost two centuries later. It was the first helmet which both enclosed the whole head from collar to crown, in the manner of a great helm, and could also rotate with the ease of a simple bascinet. It is this world which produced the armet : a second steel skin. The age of gunpowder and steel was fast approaching. The age of chivalry was receding into the mythical past (if, indeed, it ever existed in the first place). Basic black powder weaponry and cannon were being created and refined, although they were not yet decisive on the battlefield. Steel plate armor was becoming accessible to more and more soldiers, and new forms of heavy weaponry had arisen to puncture and defeat it: the crossbow, the pike and the halberd. The medieval Armet Helmet stands at the cusp of an era. (About): A Period-Accurate Replica with Fully Authentic Riveted Articulation
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