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1 The harness and its components. © Dierk Hagedorn

2 Early Italian harness from the Churburg armoury. © Churburg, Schluderns

3 A composite Kastenbrust harness from the Wien Museum in Vienna.

4 Rogier van der Weyden: Saint George and the Dragon, 1432–35. © Washington, National Gallery of Art, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

5 St. George from the high altar of St. George’s church in Wismar, about 1430. © Wismar, St. Nikolaikirche

6 Hans Talhoffer: Harness fencing with the pollaxe, Thott 290 20, fol. 134v. © København, Det Kongelige Bibliotek

7 Armoured combat with fatal consequences in the so-called codex Manesse, Cod. Pal. germ. 848, fol. 321v. © Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg

8 Cod. Guelf. 78.2 Aug. 20, fol. 94v. © Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August-Bibliothek

9 Cod. Guelf. 78.2 Aug. 2°, fol. 109v. © Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August-Bibliothek

10 Cod. Guelf. 78.2 Aug. 2°, fol. 34r. © Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August-Bibliothek

11 Cod.I.6.4°.2, fol. 82v. © Augsburg, Universitätsbibliothek

12 Paulus Kal, Cgm 1507, fol. 19r. © Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München

13 Hans Talhoffer, Thott 290 2°, fol. 108r. © København, Det Kongelige Bibliotek

14 Hans Talhoffer, Thott 290 2°, fol. 107v. © København, Det Kongelige Bibliotek

15 Memb. II 109, fol. 44v. © Forschungsbibliothek Gotha der Universität Erfurt