As plate protection for the throat (circa 1320) precedes the introduction of the arret (circa 1350)

We can actually find examples of plate protection for the throat as early as the 13th century. For example we find a "collarium ferreum de placcis" in an inventory of 1277 in south Italy.

Its surprising that the European crossbows have no wooden core, just horn wrapped in sinew European crossbows have a wooden core. Survived composed bows are made also with wood and if you see the list of material posted by Zanetto, you can find also "bowstaves". ergosum, what is the source for the ...

The Norwegian King's Mirror ('200), Hals Talhoffer ('400), and I think Sir John Smythe ('500) all talk about spanning and shooting the crossbow from horseback. A new article by Jack Gassman called "The Use of the Crossbow in Medieval Cavalry" has some details but its in a very expensive volume from...

IN this case it is logical that they used longer bolts and had a bigger power stroke and possibly heavier bolts For sure they had havier bolts: from the capitolare of blacksmiths of Venice we know that 1000 "quadrelli de strove" should weight 35-38 libre, 1000 "quadrelli de ballestra da duos pedes"...

I am an Assyriologist doing this for fun, if you want archival research hire a trained medievalist. I have an academic preparation, however I also do this only for fun. My previous questions were only "rethorical" ones. Now in my free time I study statuta of towns, maybe one day I will examine also...

The phrase 'arming doublet' certainly exists, but in the medieval and renaissance texts I have read, its not the most common way to describe the doublet worn under harness. Its much more common to be told that it is a damask doublet, or a linen doublet, or a used doublet, or a strongly built double...

It looks to me like jupe, jupon, and zupello/zuparello are three different words with three different histories. Jupe had spread from El-Andalus to Iceland by the beginning of the 1200s, and outside of Italy it generally refers to a garment without stuffing, but jupon seems to have been popular in ...

The sources from Venice move back the first usage of jupon from 1342 to 1288. 1288? From the statuta of Padova of 1236 (but this rubrica, where the maximum prices of the clothes were defined, was previous): "pro zupa de armare solidos octo, pro zupello sine manicis solidos quinque et si habuerit ma...

Quite interesting is the resolution of Maggior Consiglio of Venice in 1295: it imposed for the poorest citizens "unum bonum çuponum ab armare, unam bonam sopraensegnam de libris VIII boni bambacii, Who have given an imprestitum of 50 pounds have to have unum bonum çuponum ab armare, unam bonam sopr...

Do you know of any dictionaries which list sopraensegna/suprasigna (which they seem to have seen as a first declension feminine?!?) No, I haven't found this term. Also the dictionary of Accademia della Crusca is not useful. v curaçe de canevaça (5 canvas cuirasses?) The external fabric is made of c...

Probably sovrosbergae, vernachiones and sopraensegnae are very similar things: a padded (always padded?) overgarment which can have heraldic decoration. You can find sopraensegnae also in an addition of 1294 of the Capitulare de zupariis of Venice (rubrica 43): "ordinamus et volimus quod quilibet de...

Its surprising to see a 'coat of arms' stuffed with 8 Venetian pounds of cotton, but 1295 is early, they could use words differently than in later periods Why it's too early? We have previous proofs. For example in 1283 the Maggior Consiglio of Venice decided to store 500 "vernachiones de pignolato...

Quite interesting is the resolution of Maggior Consiglio of Venice in 1295: it imposed for the poorest citizens "unum bonum çuponum ab armare, unam bonam sopraensegnam de libris VIII boni bambacii, (...)".

]Rules of the Armed Societies of Bologna, 1230-1288: Members of the society had to be equipped with body armour of which the çuppa/zuppa ( jupe ) and guayferia (only known in these laws, may be local slang) were two possible kinds. The term guaiferiam is also used in The Rules of Bologna of 1288. T...

Ergosum where have you found the full text of those documents? See here http://tlioweb.ovi.cnr.it/(S(v1sghtvdwtnzsobui0rvhu55))/CatForm02.aspx Buy a copy of Medieval Warfare VIII-1 (John Hawkwood and the Condottieri) and find out! It should be available for pre-orders in a week or two. A very usefu...

my source from 1368/9

Francesco Datini?

in this archive coretti are listed with the maglia Normally the word coretto described a maille. For example a work of Egidio Romano (1243-1316) says "conviene che i coretti sieno molto larghi, acciò che l'una maglia soppapponga all'altra" ("it's better if the coretti are large in order to one ring...

Mine is probably not the best example

See there https://it.pinterest.com/pin/496029346437271920/ .

Does that sound right?

To me, it's right.
The verb "salvo, as, avi, atum, are" is a little bit odd for classical Latin, but for medieval Latin is absolutely right.

Unless I am grievously mistaken, it should be: A furore Normannorum nulla te salvare possunt. - to a single person. A furore Normannorum nulla vos salvare possunt. - to a group of people. Be careful; nullus/a/um is an adjective: If you want to say "no one thing", you will use "nihil", if you want t...

Hi!
Resipisce and Noli are two imperatives, II person singular.
Peccare is an infinitive.
Amplius and iam are two adverbs (iam is quite useless in this sentece, but the latin of Vulgata is terrible).
Do you need more help?