The Armour Archive

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Hour and a Half Left.

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Hour and a Half Left.

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Hour and a Half Left.

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Vitus von Atzinger wrote: my wife is going to cut off my manhood and nail it to my forehead.

The guy that nailed himself in the head this week said the nail doesn't hurt. the manhood part might though.

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Randal and Earnest did yall read his post that clarified what he meant.

English as in the tongue spoken by his non-norman subjects. Middle English I would guess.
And primary language as in What he would have cuss you out in if you woke him up roughly from a deep sleep.

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I think many kings in England spoke English before the 14th century as a main language, likely much earlier. Matthew Paris makes a comment about Henry III regarding his use of English but I could not find it after a quick look. I think by the 13th century everyone spoke English. There is a differen...

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Once the spring steel pieces are hardened can they be worked at all? And could one special order spring steel pieces not heat treated so they could do little modifications then get them treated themselves?

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Patrick Thaden doesn't use hammers he hits the the steel with his bare knuckles.

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Any chance you could edit the title of this to like First English speaking king after the conquest or something.

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Definitely not before Henry V. He starts writing some signet letters in English at some point during his reign.

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Primary as in first language or primary as in spoken most frequently?

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Gatorade is definitely mixed too strongly so it either needs to be watered down or drunk with water. One trick our water bearers used for Sunday summer fighter practices was to mix gatoraid with about twice as much water as it instructs. Basically if you could stand to drink it you needed to drink i...

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Current popular culture references are always problematic in undergraduate classes because rarely does the prof have much popular culture in common with his students.

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Reminds me of my first (and only) class on Chaucer - we started with works like Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy," presumably to provide some context (sorry, Mord...!). The professor lost me the moment (at the first class, mind you) he said, "Now if Boethius were RAMBO..." ...

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I tend to be a big fan of getting to the details of past societies myself, Glen, but I'm not always sure if all the details even fit together. More importantly, I'm never sure if all the details are still exists. History gets lost, forgotten, or misconstrued. How, then, can you synthesize a larger ...

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Sorry, I am not dissing Hanwei, but I believe we have a more discriminating audience here. Bud Light is not undrinkable, but to mention it in a homebrewer's meeting will raise some eyebrows.... I kinda like that analogy except that we aren't a homebrewer's meeting. Perhaps a beer drinkers guild, so...

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For a while I was collecting Osprey books that I came across for good prices at bookstores. I've never really used them and they are just taking up shelf space. Most I've not looked at since buying them. So I am going to Auction them off in groups. Auction ends Thursday at 7pm CST. The P after the a...

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For a while I was collecting Osprey books that I came across for good prices at bookstores. I've never really used them and they are just taking up shelf space. Most I've not looked at since buying them. So I am going to Auction them off in groups. Auction ends Thursday at 7pm CST. The P after the a...

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For a while I was collecting Osprey books that I came across for good prices at bookstores. I've never really used them and they are just taking up shelf space. Most I've not looked at since buying them. So I am going to Auction them off in groups. Auction ends Thursday at 7pm CST. The P after the a...

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For a while I was collecting Osprey books that I came across for good prices at bookstores. I've never really used them and they are just taking up shelf space. Most I've not looked at since buying them. So I am going to Auction them off in groups. Auction ends Thursday at 7pm CST. The P after the a...

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Sean Powell wrote:As a thought: depending on your persona fight for Athena, representititve of all female fighters, or perhaps pick a female saint who personifies a virtue you favor.

Haven't you ever read Ulrich von Lichtenstein, your suppose to fight for Venus, Queen of Love.

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Perhaps fight for all women who have no one to fight for them.

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First thing is talk to you wife if you haven't. Get a feel for what she thinks about it. And honestly ask her even if you know she will say no. If the tourney will be close enough day trip it if you can convince her. Always start there, not so much to try and get her into the SCA but to remind her t...

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It's interesting, though, that so many of the contributions seem to be entirely literary in nature. You can't neglect the literary aspect in history, of course, but I wonder whether the choice of subjects reflect medievalism in the US adequately? No it doesn't she almost completely ignores the hist...

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It's why I switched to history. Depending on the department that might not help much anymore. I was lucky and our department was relatively conservative in regards to historical practice. We did have one South Americanist who liked theory a lot. Luckily I never took any classes with her. Theory in ...

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matt9625 wrote:Was there something i missed on that site? It all looked like made in india crap.

Agreed but some of it looks like it might be india crap made in heavier gauges, which is one of the reasons why some india stuff has been ignored by people who actually use armour.

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Another potential factor is that over the last few years the production line armourers have improved quality and look without drastic price increases so instead of looking to buy something here people may just be going straight to them. Also one of the things that happens as disposable income goes d...

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...with all medieval clothing and equipment (save for some electric fencing); trailing truck for safety and modern necessaries. You could probably get away with out a trailing truck and what not as long as you planned who you would need to contact along each section of the route if you needed help....

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Waste studies is a brand new academic discipline invented by Susan Signe Morrison, a dark-haired, extroverted 49-year-old professor of English at Texas State University's San Marcos campus. Not only do I know Dr. Morrison but I actually did some research on shit for her. Last time I saw her she sai...

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The only upside to it usually is that pickle buckets were free. And sorry but $725 is insanely high for plastic That pretty much sums it up. There are advantages to plastic armour like you can stick it in your shed for a decade and pull it out and still wear it. But expensive plastic just isn't wor...

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Now you just need to ditch that 14th century helmet and get you a 15th century one.

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how thick is it?

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Here are too of a historical reproduction being worn without the bevor, which it would need that or a bargrill like you did on yours inorder to be legal. [img]http://www.mediumaevum.com/josh/ben2.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.mediumaevum.com/josh/ben3.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.mediumaevum.com/josh/ben4....

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I know what a true sallet looks like, but unless you have the lower section (bevor I believe) it is no where near legal for SCA combat. I only made this helmet due to the overwhelming popularity at one time and the numerous daily emails I was getting for this style. I bought the proto-type from the...

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Well thats why I'm not sure if this is a sallet. This helmet style has been very popular for a number of years. I have had several dozen people asking me for one and now that I have one -no one seems interested. Geuss thats how the hammer falls..... Here is the thing, you have put a distinctly sall...

Re: ATTENTION msg from Atzinger Shieldworks

Auction-Osprey books Fortresses

Auction-Osprey books c.16th century

Auction-Osprey books c.1200

Auction-Osprey books c. 14th century

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