Limitations imposed by wearing armour on Medieval soldiers' locomotor performance

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1729, 2012, Pages 640-644

  Askew, Graham N ^a   Formenti, Federico ^b   Minetti, Alberto E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Energetics; Locomotion; Medieval armour; Metabolic power; Power

Indexed keywords

BIOENERGETICS; BIOMECHANICS; LOCOMOTION; MEDIEVAL; METABOLISM; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; STEEL; WAR;

EUROPE;

EID: 84855658377     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.0816     Document Type: Article

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