The Armour Archive

Egfroth

I've done a bit of research on this, and found some interesting pics. If I can access them (I'm short of time at the moment) I'll post them.

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Egfroth

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Egfroth

And it was acceptable to beat your wife, or even, in a "crime of passion", kill her. No, I think I prefer today, for all its faults.

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Egfroth

"Power; it corrupts! I can FEEL it!!
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Egfroth

Definitely the Moors in Spain - apparently there was a distinction at the time between the "white" Moors and the "Blackamoors", who are shown in murals in the Palacio Berenguer de Aguilar in Barcelona showing the conquest of Majorca in 1229 (painted about 50 years after the event). The faces are jet...

Egfroth

Sounds very good, Edwin. I look forward to the photos.

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Egfroth

"Power; it corrupts! I can FEEL it!!
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Egfroth

Maybe remove the top few rows till they're the right length? Or will that interfere with the fit on the leg?

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Egfroth

"Power; it corrupts! I can FEEL it!!
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Egfroth

What are they basing the armour on? Do they have any accurate info to work from? Too often "Byzantine" is an excuse to do some mish-mash of "exotic" armor, when in fact Byzantine armour followed a few very sharply defined styles, and can be pretty definitively described and reproduced. See the links...

Egfroth

My pleasure. If and when she makes her kit, some photos would be nice.

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Egfroth

"Power; it corrupts! I can FEEL it!!
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Egfroth

I posted this at the Armour-Design and Construction site at http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/Forum1/HTML/007497.html , but it may be more appropriate here. Have a look. Very pretty.

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Egfroth

"Power; it corrupts! I can FEEL it!!
see my webpage at www.geocities.com/egfrothos

Egfroth

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Murdock: I was at Gulf wars i saw this KSCA. #2 A guy in a tabbard (Calontir?) wearing leather kness taped to his bear legs, a weight belt, a jock strap, and leather elbows ...

Egfroth

Just a question - what period (ie what century) are you interested in for this Irish thing? Irish gear changed over the centuries, in line with evereywhere else in the world. What an Irish Viking wore in 900 AD was very different from the Irish who opposed King John in the 12th century, and those wh...

Egfroth

I posted this earlier on a separate thread, but I think it go sort of lost, so I want to share it with you. It's at http://www.geocities.com/egfroth1/Goldmail.html - It's in the Topkapi Palace Museum in Istanbul. didn't copy down the label, but I believe it to be the armour of a 16th century Ottoman...

Egfroth

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Alexi: ok so some modifications to my plan: I'm going to be making them 3inch high by 2 inch wide. I decided the 4 inches in height would be prohibitive to bending. One of t...

Egfroth

So, who's a pretty boy, then?

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Egfroth

"Power; it corrupts! I can FEEL it!!
see my webpage at www.geocities.com/egfrothos

Egfroth

The Osprey book is ok _if_ you stick to the primary source pictures and ignore the colour plates. However, for 12th-13th century Byzantine, I would recommend she look first at Tim Dawson's "Levantia" page - http://www-personal.une.edu.au/~tdawson/Levantia.html -, which is very carefully researched (...

Egfroth

For contemporary pictures of the decoration on helmets of this gebneral type, look at the Maciejowski Bible (c. 1250 AD) at http://www.keesn.nl/mac/mac_en.htm and at various pictures at http://www.callisto.si.usherb.ca/~croisade/IMAGES/Webimages.htm - particularly http://www.callisto.si.usherb.ca/~c...

Egfroth

(Sigh). No, it can't be justified. But try telling that to the jocks. Bad as we in Oz and elsewhere feel our own accuracy can get, the metal weapons crowd just don't use plastic where it can be seen - not at all if possible (ok, groin protection, stuff like that). But then, the great majority of us ...

Egfroth

More info is available at http://web.missouri.edu/~rls555/RUSH/valsgarde.htm#1 and Halvgrim (whose site it is) might be able to tell you where the helmets are kept.

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Egfroth

"Power; it corrupts! I can FEEL it!!
see my webpage at www.geocities.com/egfrothos

Egfroth

Very pretty. The C14 isn't my area of specialty, but the guys look really good. A couple of questions - is one guy wearing boots on his calves, or cloth covered greaves? And the guy on the right of the 3 in front of the red-topped tent - is his helm a funny shape? It seems to look a little wierd - y...

Egfroth

That's like asking "How long is a piece of string?" The Frogs (oops! Showing my prejudices)hardly believe there WAS a Dark Age, because as far as they were concerned Roman civilisation didn't go away, it just passed under new management - the Franks. In Byzantium there WASN'T a Darlk Age - their civ...

Egfroth

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Brodir: Incredible, thanks. I'm surprised to see that longseax dated 10th century, I thought seaxes of near-sword dimensions were more of a 700-800 type thing. This item doe...

Egfroth

I've referred people to these in the past, but you really ought to look at them if you haven't seen them before. Swords, axes, belt buckles and fittings, seaxes, brooches - TONS of them! A very comprehensive lot from the British Museum's exhibits on the Danetre site at http://www.danetre-vikings.org...

Egfroth

[QUOTE]Originally posted by OurDecay: 1) The American Civil War is "our" war . . . On the surface of it this argument seems to make sense. But then how do we explain the (large) numbers of English and Australians (who at least have _some_ connection) and - for god's sake - GERMANS who play A...

Egfroth

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Alcyoneus: Anyone have any info? I saw a drawing of a locking chest in a Viking Encyclopedia that looked interesting- simple enough for me to make. http://www.armourarchive.org...

Egfroth

There is evidence of leather drinking vessels in England as far back as the 11th century. I have a photo of an 11th century _pottery_ water bottle which is very obviously copied from a _leather_ one, right down to the (fake) stitch marks around the edges! I made a leather one, and it works surprisin...

Egfroth

In Australia, there's the Australian Register Of Living History Organisations at http://members.ozemail.com.au/~adjutant/arlho/ and that links to similar lists thoughout the world. The only one I can't see on that is the Hastings 2000+ list, at http://www.smartgroups.com/group/group.cfm?GID=1155938&...

Egfroth

There is still controversy about this one. The Bayeux Tapestry (c. 1070-80) appears to show both integral and separate coifs, while those on the Maciejowski Bible (c. 1250) http://www.keesn.nl/mac/mac_en.htm (see particularly the second picture, The Capture of Lot) were definitely integral. Though t...

Egfroth

Really beautiful helmets. I've added them to my Favourites list.

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Egfroth

"Power; it corrupts! I can FEEL it!!
see my webpage at www.geocities.com/egfrothos

Egfroth

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by jcesarelli: "A pelican in her piety" is a pelican depicted as picking at her chest over her nest in order to feed her chicks with her own blood. It is supposed to symbolize man...

Egfroth

Ah, well; another thread killed . . .

Egfroth

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Konstantin the Red: . . . The only thing Englishmen knew about leopards was that their walk was said to be utterly noiseless. So, a lion just walking (heraldically depicted...

Egfroth

All very well, but in fact (admittedly _after_ shields had stopped being used for personal identification on the battlefield), escutcheons began to be made composite; on the alliance of two families, it became common to "quarter" the escutcheon with the two family coats of arms - I believe the more ...

Egfroth

Seems to be modelled on a late Roman cavalry helm, but not very well.

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Egfroth

"Power; it corrupts! I can FEEL it!!
see my webpage at www.geocities.com/egfrothos

Egfroth

I've just checked my photocopy of the original of the picture on p23 of the Osprey book, and honestly, the original is much more open to interpretation than Osprey makes it. What is shown as a baldric in Osprey could just as easily be a line of missing paint on the manuscript. You really need to see...

Egfroth

Ok; the pictures of James I's conquest of Majorca come from wall paintings in Barcelona, courtesy of the Museu de Arte de Catalunya, Barcelona - mine was published in a book in the Golden Books "Echoes of the Ancient World" series, called "The Moors: Islam in the West". You might be able to get it f...

Egfroth

Late 12th century is a little difficult for me to find, but there is an excellent pictorial record of a mid-thirteenth invasion of Majorca by one of the Spanish kingdoms, and I also have photocopies of what are described as (I think - can't lay my hands on them at the moment) thirteenth century copi...

Beautiful Ottoman armour - pics

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Photos of LOTS of Viking Age artefacts from archaeological f