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283: 134: 22: 224:) is shown in the Skylitzes and Madrid Skylitzes chronicles and of the Menologion of Basil II. There were also seen being used by the imperial guardsmen in Constantinople. The armor itself lasted until the fall of Constantinople, as Constantinos Palaiologos himself is recorded as wearing one during the fall. 259: 324: 113: 282: 47: 343: 94: 66: 317: 73: 43: 32: 189:
pins. By the 16th century, the corslet, also spelled corselet, was popular as a light-half-armour for general
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In the 10th and 11th century, the depiction of some Byzantine troops wearing a metallic corselet
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is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as "a piece of defensive
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The word "corslet" was adopted as a so-called "occupational
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is said to have worn a similar device in some battle(s). In
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