Also known as lance spear, lance weapon
thumb|300px|Normans|Norman cavalry attacks the Anglo-Saxon [[shield wall at the Battle of Hastings as depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry. The "lances" depicted here are held with a one-handed over-the-head grip, and so their use is not the same as the "lances" of the later medieval period, when they were fitted with a "grapper" designed to engage a lance rest attached to the wielder's plate armour and used couched in the charge.]]
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Within Vinony's link graph, ランス is referenced by 636 other articles, and connects out to pole weapon, Warring States period and spontoon.
It is catalogued under topics including Hunting equipment, Indigenous weapons of the Americas and Lance.
Its subject is documented across 32 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- pole weapon
- Image
- Clevelandart 1964.357.j.jpg
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- Commons category
- Lances
- different from
- Kopie
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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Article · 日本語
ランス（英: lance）は、中世から近代まで主にヨーロッパの騎兵に用いられた槍の一種。語源はラテン語で槍を意味するランケア（羅: lancea）。日本語では、「騎槍」と訳される。 戦場だけでなく馬上槍試合でも用いられた。ランスは兜、鎧、剣、メイス、盾と並ぶ、騎士を象徴する装備の一つであり、ファンタジーRPGなどでは、細長い円錐の形にヴァンプレイトと呼ばれる大きな笠状の鍔がついたものがよく描かれているが、必ずしも全てのランスがその形状をしているわけではない。後述の文については主に狭義の意味でのランスについて説明する。
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