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Images? References? I havent seen too many images of the backs of chausses (or havent been looking), so I would definately be interested. I kind of second the "Show Chausses" thread, so we can start getting some primary references together. Not really images from the back so much as from ...

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To add another point of consideration, many chausses shown before 1240 or so have open backs which are laced over the calf and back of the thigh.

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In my haste to complete my previous post before leaving for work, I forgot to add the attachments. The images were taken from the Memoria Project's open images, which have sadly been moved to Manuscriptorium's "pay for view" site. Small thumbnails with big fractals are still available for ...

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The riveted strips or overlap on such bascinets is clearly shown in several folios in the Czech "Velisalova Bible", NKCR XXIII.C.124, particularly fo. 32r (Laban and his followers) and fo. 34v in the upper register,

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Of course Hohenklingen's mail aventail extends from beneath his cloth one, so you could always add that.

I think the richly embroidered escutcheon on the front would be a nice touch too.

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I concur that the African trabanter would not have been slaves. I am merely pointing out that the need for slaves in the Spanish New World had brought Africans to Europe. Even into the 1600s skilled Africans would fall more into our concept of indentured servants, working their term of duty and then...

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By the 1520s, the slave trade was going strong between Africa, Europe, and the Caribbean. Albrecht Durer sketched a negro man in 1508, and a negro woman in Antwerp in the 1520s.

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Romance of Alexander, Bodley MS 264. Folio number doesn't spring to mind, but it's a bottom marginalia next to the binding, a recto if I recall.

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Guys, Excuse me. Brain Fart. I have no idea why I suddenly came up with a pre-12th century date. Too many hours at work as of late I hope, and not some sort of early-onset senility. Yes, the specific references to aketons in all their various spelling appear in the late 12th century per every schola...

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I must say that I find the whole "leather armor" concept to be peculiar. No one speaks of "metal armor". We speak of mail, scale, lamellar, plate, etc., that is, we speak of the construction method, and not of the general material. Leather which had been hardened might have found...

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OTOH, such garments were in common use in Byzantium and among their Arab and Turkish opponents. It is possible that they spread to the west after the Crusades, but we have no real evidence to back that up. Egfroth, It's almost certain that the terminology (aketon, haqueton, etc.) come from Arabic's...

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I recall seeing regulations prohibiting the storage of mail in panniers (saddle bags). From chef's post I gather the same is true for helms as well.

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I don't think there is such a uniform code for any of the crusades. Certainly, the religious orders had given rules which differentiate the equipment required for sergeants, knights, tucopoles, etc.. There are also regulations from various cities and kingdoms requiring people of a certain worth or r...

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This is certainly an interesting experiment. Several of us have been debating which historic methods might have been used to paint helms in the 13th and early 14th centuries. Painting directly onto iron, painting over gesso, and gluing a fabric or hide cover to the iron (followed by paint or gesso a...

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He was beheaded in the normal manner, along with Ankokuji Ekei and Konishi Yukinaga, at the Kyoto execution ground, RokujÃ´gahara (a riverbank below the Sixth Street Bridge), on 10/1/1600. No bamboo saw. Blame "Shogun." A famous incident relates that, on the way to the execution, he compl...

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Dice. We need more dice. Saw and drill.

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for the battle of Wisby you're probably looking at something like a simple bascinet. depending on who you portray a visor as well. you may want to look at early attempts at basciney visors- like the triangular nose gaurd that is attached to the maille and fastens to the brow. I disagree. Since Coif...

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Odo was Williams brother, the bulk of the higher clergy were noblemen (it was among other things a good way of generating a livlihood for a younger brother) The "baculus" (club) was both a weapon, and a symbol of authority so arguing that a nobleman wouldn't use one is somewhat off. http://www.medi...

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Several years ago the topic of early flails came up on the "75 years" board, and I was able to provide this image which also shows a late 13th century cudgel. m The original manuscript source is Biblioteca Trivulziana, Milan, Codex 1025, "Moniage de Guillaume", folio 142. This is part of the William...

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Is it now surprising that the renaissance re-awakening to classical culture made contemporary copying of classical forms popular?!? In the case of Italy, is it surprising that they copied the monuments around them in an attempt to recall the glory days of Rome? The Roman symbolism adopted on America...

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Put black wool on the barn floor.
Put white wool on the barn floor.
Send a bunch of kids to trampse through the wool.
Want lighter gray, add more white.

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Does the lead seal retain any hallmarks?

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Two-piece gores are fairly common. If you put the half-gores in "backwards", then voila!

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There is a horseman with schynbalds in Matthew Paris' "Lives of the Two Offas".

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Steve, There's one of the old Osprey titles concerning Crusaders which shows a pair of (possibly) historic "soupcan" poleyns. The back side shows the line of "rivets" along the top is really like a mini-vervelle, and extant mail is attached through the post. There has been some debate as to whether ...

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There are a couple of examples in an Italian manuscript from c.1330-40, now in the Czech National Library (NK). Look at XII.E.17, fo.11v on the right hand side. m I was going to add the attachment, but there's always other stuff to look at in primary sources, so I hope the link will give more viewin...

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A search on this site for "scale AND helmet" should give plenty of scale helmet pictures. For lamellar helmets, a Google Image search for "tibet helmet" would likely do.

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The Wisby examples were cut into pieces, and showed evidence of having the rows riveted into a foundation garment. It could be that no one knew how to re-lace the lamellar, or merely that they wanted to appear more up to date by wearing a CoP. You may find 14th century examples in Russia or the Balk...

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Since James asked, I looked up the appropriate code. It seems that firearms are a felony, but edged weapons are "only" a misdemeanor 6 mos./$1k offense. There are exceptions for educational use, but the teachers/principals here are very unlikely to approve such a thing, at least in the public second...

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Wisby, Ch.4 pp. 159-160 gives the average calculated height for those KIA at about 168cm, around 5'6". You may note the discrepency in average height compares to the "shortness" of the armor.

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I regret that I can no longer do such demonstrations. Bringing a sword to school is a felony offense with "Zero Tolerance" where I live.

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You mention that, even without overlap, the CoP is 5" too short. How tall are you? How tall was the original owner?

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The last helmet is possibly Polish, in the "Sarmatian" style, and might date to the 1700s. I'll have to check through some images from the RÃ¼stkammer, as I believe I have seen this or similar helmets from the Dresden collections.