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The lantern shield is a type of buckler combined with a lantern, in use during the Italian Renaissance (15th and 16th century Italy). A number of specimens survive. Their defining feature is a small circular shield with a hook from which to hang a lantern, intended to blind the opponent at night or in duels fought at dawn. Some elaborate examples are known, some with integrated gauntlets, spikes, added blades, etc. The most peculiar example is the one now kept at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, made in ca. the 1540s. Swordsmen duelling at dawn are reported to have carried lanterns during the 16th and 17th centuries, and fencing manuals of the period integrated the lantern into their lessons, using it to parry blows and blind the opponent.〔http://www.classicalfencing.com/articles/Angelo.php accessed 7/25/2009〕 The manuals sometimes show the combatants carrying the lantern in the left hand wrapped behind the back.〔http://pages.sbcglobal.net/blyle/Angelo/46.png accessed 7/25/2009〕 ==See also== *Pata (weapon) *Russian targe (:ru:Тарч (русский щит)) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lantern shield」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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