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What (who) is Bascinet - definition

MEDIEVAL EUROPEAN OPEN-FACED MILITARY HELMET
Basinet; Hounskull
  • Bascinet without accessories.
  • Bascinet with a bretache (nose protection) and aventail (chainmail neck protection).
  • Early great bascinet, c. 1400, with plate gorget and exaggeratedly tall skull. Note how the skull of the helmet is riveted to the rear gorget plate.
  • Later great bascinet (c. 1440) with rounded skull and visor - showing the position of the wearer's head and the rotation of the visor
  • orle]]. The helmet would be free to rotate within the gorget. English c. 1450
  • A great bascinet with a rounded visor.

Bascinet         
·noun A light helmet, at first open, but later made with a visor.
Bascinet         
The bascinet – also bassinet, basinet, or bazineto – was a Medieval European open-faced combat helmet. It evolved from a type of iron or steel skullcap, but had a more pointed apex to the skull, and it extended downwards at the rear and sides to afford protection for the neck.
Basinet         
·noun ·same·as Bascinet.

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Bascinet

The bascinet – also bassinet, basinet, or bazineto – was a Medieval European open-faced combat helmet. It evolved from a type of iron or steel skullcap, but had a more pointed apex to the skull, and it extended downwards at the rear and sides to afford protection for the neck. A mail curtain (aventail or camail) was usually attached to the lower edge of the helmet to protect the throat, neck and shoulders. A visor (face guard) was often employed from c. 1330 to protect the exposed face. Early in the fifteenth century, the camail began to be replaced by a plate metal gorget, giving rise to the so-called "great bascinet".