本章中的大部分信息我要感谢C.J.Ffoulkes的著作The Armourer and his Craft(London,1912),还有G.F.Laking的A record of European Armour and Arms (London,1920)和Catalogue of the Armour and Arms in the Armoury of the Knights of St John in the Palace,Valetta(London,1905)。