Rerebrace

Left and right rarebraces on jousting armour

A rerebrace (sometimes known as an upper cannon^[1]) is a piece of armour designed to protect the upper arms (above the elbow). Splint rerebraces were a feature of Byzantine armour in the Early Medieval period. The rerebrace seems to have re-emerged in England, in the early 14th century.^[2] As part of the full plate armour of the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance the rerebrace was a tubular piece of armour between the shoulder defences (pauldron) and the elbow protection (couter).

References

↑ David Edge, John Miles Paddock (1993) [1988]. Arms & Armor of the Medieval Knight (Crescent Books reprint ed.). New York City: Crescent Books. pp. 79–80. ISBN 0517103192.
↑ George Cameron Stone (1999) [1934]. A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor in All Countries and in All Times (Dover ed.). Mineola NY: Dover Publications. p. 526. ISBN 0486407268.

External links

Cleveland Museum of Art glossary of arms and armor

Components of medieval armour

Head	Armet Barbute Bascinet Burgonet Cervelliere Enclosed helmet Close helmet Great helm Frog mouth Hounskull Lobster tail pot Mail coif Morion Nasal helmet Sallet Spangenhelm Kettle hat

Face	Visor Falling buffe

Neck	Aventail Bevor Gorget Pixane

Torso	Breastplate Brigandine Cuirass Culet Pauncer Plackart Fauld Hauberk Codpiece Lance rest Coat of plates Jack of plate

Arms	Ailette Besagew Couter Gauntlet Pauldron Rerebrace Spaulder Vambrace

Legs	Bases Chausses Cuisses Greave Poleyn Sabaton Schynbald Tasset

Pieces	Gousset Lame Rondel

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