The Armour Archive

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Your costume friend is an idiot. The date may be a little early but not later then 1420.

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Correct I have not seen anything more then the published bit. The yogh thing is understandable, the yogh generally goes away earlier then the thorn and there is no movement to return it to the English language like there is with the thorn. I will contact my friend in England who I shared the Ashmole...

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I'm having trouble following this. Partly because it is only the beginning and ending of the recipe. the ... section is in the manuscript but not in the published edition. It seems, in general, like this procedure has us making a thing with two thicknesses of leather glued together with the flesh s...

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There are hundreds if not thousands of middle English recipes in Ashmole manuscripts so it could happen.

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So I avoided being put on a 72 hour hold and then getting rear ended by a semi who had to go into the ditch as I had to go on to the shoulder to avoid the car infront of me. So I've decided to reveal more information I've been keeping secret. Index of Middle English Prose Handlist IX ASHMOLE 1389 p3...

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Since I've never got off my butt and actually done anything in a long time I thought I would share a super secret material I came across for making brigs and what not that can use 1 1/4 in wide strapping. What you want to find is steel strapping to the specification ANSI A225.1 It is a high tensile ...

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RandallMoffett wrote:So I have moved to Northern Utah

Did you get a TT job up there?

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Sean where is your impression from and what is his role in this?

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This sort of thing is especially bad among 15th century English historians. It is a historiography thing. A well trained historian would not bother trying to decide the exact date unless they were going to really find out. Speculating when things happened by playing funny math is not really what his...

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First off the Church at that point in time was not good about documenting that stuff. The rise of that sort of document is generally a product of the Reformation. Secondly you are assuming that there aren't documents that encompass all of those things or that give a clear way to calculate the date. ...

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I think the foot is just badly drawn, it is just a woman with bare legs and side slits on. I believe we see similar in a City of God from 1470s France.

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Actually it isn't as different as you think. If I asked you to name the date of the combat of thirty tournament at last pennsic without looking it up there is a decent chance you would be close but not right. If we looked at an actual document from it then it would likely have the exact date, same i...

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You really should look through the IMAREAL database as there are more armour combinations in 15th century Germany then many think and a lot of the really uber high gothic suits are quite late. Here are some images I gathered real quick. http://tarvos.imareal.oeaw.ac.at/server/images/7001129.JPG http...

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I had seen this on the uk national gallery website but I don't like googles interface. I like a nice thumbnail interface.

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You find lots of big shield shapes in southern Europe but they tend to be at least slightly curved and tend to have more rounded edges the a sharp 90 degrees. The question with historical research is when and where. You can document just about anything if you have 1000 years and a whole continent as...

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I have mirrored them on my website to hopefully relieve some of the slowness.

http://mediumaevum.com/yorkfinds/

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Instead of trying to make something fit something you are better off finding what is appropriate. There are a lot of depictions of Germans tourneying in helmets that would become the frogmouth. I'll see if I can't dig up some images later if other don't post any first. Also after the Joust of Peace ...

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Just because something is in copyright doesn't mean someone hasn't put it on the internet.

And the website is listed in this thread, it appears to be dead.

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As in that book itself? the query is kinda unclear.

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Can you post a link to the viking answer lady page, my off the cuff guess would be late-13th century for the image.

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There are a number of people we know about whose life stories really are as bizarre as some SCA persona stories.

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There are lots of ways to get things but not exactly like pubmed.

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There have been a decent number of studies in other languages and at least one in English about the Swiss in this period. There is certainly more to learn without going to Switzerland.

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Some mishmashes are period.

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Vaughan's book on Charles is a must read if you are interested in this and are a English reader. Especially since it is not strictly chronological but thematic so certain details are not always where you might want them to be. I'm sure Chef will post when he gets around to it.

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Living in Texas and having to deal with the impact of him on the WMA community here I will say this. He helped open the doors to academic recognition of the WMA community as being something real among professional medievalists. Even to the point where I saw academic historians come to the WMA commun...

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Tracy Justus wrote:Medieval Decorative Ironwork in England by Jane Geddes. Kind of expensive- look for it through a library first.

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Inter-Library Loan (ILL) is your friend. Ask your local librarian, and they can get it for you.

Some books you just buy sight unseen.

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Leo Medii wrote:Man, wish I lived on the west coast.....

Apparently you didn't get the hints in the ad such as Lone Star or Lake Austin.

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And after 20 years it's a shame to see they *still* have not moved beyond the coif under hat stage. Maybe I didn't read it well enough but I didn't see anywhere the idea of a coif under hat. Pictures, mate. Pictures in the guide? cause I even checked the different versions and still didn't see one.

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Black Swan Designs wrote:And after 20 years it's a shame to see they *still* have not moved beyond the coif under hat stage.

Maybe I didn't read it well enough but I didn't see anywhere the idea of a coif under hat.

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use some sort of glue instead of just water.

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The other possibility would be to find someone who references that article. So looking through notes and bibliographies of armor works written after we think this article was published might lead us to the original location.

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Frederich All that has already been done by myself and I think Mord and we are both of the conclusion that it is likely a smaller journal out of the UK. Based on the possible date range likely something small enough not to have been scanned in Google Books. I even went through an index I found and t...

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Are they miss cataloged or just funny connections. I have the American equivalent set up to send me updates for "Middle Ages" and "fifteenth century" every week and every once in a while I get stuff on middle aged people. no, just random. I now have several papers on early education instead of the ...

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Are they miss cataloged or just funny connections. I have the American equivalent set up to send me updates for "Middle Ages" and "fifteenth century" every week and every once in a while I get stuff on middle aged people.

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