The Armour Archive

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Portrayal question. Noble class gentlemen at arms certainly didn't cook or clean-up for themselves, so how are such duties handled? Or maybe a better question is who does carry out these types of things? This is one of the reasons why most serious LH groups are dominated by impressions of the middl...

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While I won't know until next week if I can for sure get the week off to attend Crossroads in Time the 21-29 of June, I figure its time to start talking about who might want to go from Texas, and since the route goes through NM your welcome to chime in as well. I know Russ mentioned possibly going. ...

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If you're not in the SCA for the history, then what does it offer you that you couldn't get from one of the boffer LARPS (Amtgard, Dagorhir, etc.)? They've got imaginary kingdoms, knights, fun, etc.--everything you seem to be after. Why did you choose the SCA? Josh if you have never been to the big...

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You pretty much hit the two major sources. Probate inventories are great because they tend to give you a broad look at the whole body of good that someone owned, or atleast as complete as we usually get. Wills can be useful but because they typically only list goods that are bequeathed they have the...

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It implies an organisation where hired horses were worked between venues, would this have been used for armies on the move as much as private mounts? While I have to find my copy of the records the town I spent some time studying this past spring basically paid for horse hire any time anyone went s...

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Pretty much, unless you are portraying besiegers at a siege, or the like. Or nobles at tournament, or a Pas d'Armes. It is important to note that this changes over time and as the nature of warfare changes. It is much more difficult to billet in more sparsely populated areas or as armies get vastly...

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Thank you for your explanation, Jehan. I understand your position. Let me give you the context for what I'm trying to do. My persona as it stands now is a countrywoman of the Scottish Borders in the 1540s, a period of active warfare between Scotland and England. I'm not a soldier; therefore, a &quo...

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[img]http://www.mediumaevum.com/aa/carival.jpg[/img]

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I personally wouldn't base a tent on those. The first image is some sort of carnival parade and judging by the similarities between the two images I'd guess they depict the same thing. Especially note the stick coming out of both with the pot hanging off of it. While the design would work for a tent...

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In the first one do you mean the thing in front of the barrels kinda on the left hand side? I don't see the last one, the one from the met. The real key usually isn't finding a piece of artwork that shows what your looking for but to find the ones that have the positive evidence as to how it was don...

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Who's afraid of the big bad wolf. If you think that was a bad flame war then you missed the good old days where there was nearly monthly flame war posts, many that were LH vs. SCA. The number one thing about your original post to ask yourself, was it a valid question. While I don't remember what the...

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Jehan de Pelham wrote:Also, it has come to my attention that the links above do not go to any useful imagery.

They do and they don't for some reason it goes to where you wanted it and then resets back to cedar city.

So is the date finalized?

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Anybody got a good idea as to how much water a horse needs a day?

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I have a dissertation on Knighthood in Lancastrian England that takes 160 knights who swore a national oath for keeping the peace in 1434 and uses them to do a prosopographical study of knighthood at this point in time. The list was made from the returns of notable people who swore the oath from 29 ...

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That is already relatively short. I'd choose one of the two words that have meaning, or another option if the banner looks longer then the actual space for the letters you can actually just start the motto and cut it off making it look like it is the whole thing if the banner were wholly visible. Oh...

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Obviously Jehan is just a meanie for telling Flittie to burn her pimple tents. How dare he say such an ignoble thing.

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Partially in but definitely after there becomes a growing disconnect between Knighthood and cavalry service in England.

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Not really. There is a sharp divide at the border in dialect, for instance. Like calling a bloody Spaniard a Frenchman... Harumph. One day I might actually find the time to research the Dumfries/Galloway area where my family seems to have come from. The actual origins are lost because we are Ulster...

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You don't have the German Cloister book? It's THE chest book - detailed drawings and photos of a couple hundred Chests, mostly clamp-fronts and arks. You wood people are strange. You can also try these terms under material object in the institute for material culture database. Kiste Tisch Rahmen Tr...

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Did you go through karen's site yet.

http://www.larsdatter.com/caskets.htm

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can you post a basic image of what that shape is. And does it have to be a photo of an actual piece of would a good painting work?

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I can only speak to Slovenia which I believe was already under attack by that time and not surprisingly dress seems to remain heavily south German(Austrian) in influence. There is a book I saw in the last month I think that the book store that dealt with westerners painting Turkish subjects in the l...

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Even now, Pipes are used in Northumberland, and other parts of Europe not considered "Celtic". You get that far north and you might as well be in Scotland. But even lowland Scots haven't been part of the celtic fringe Nothing LIKE modern Scottish pipes were used, even in Scotland. As Bren...

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Argyle the Wanderer wrote:DeCalmont wrote,

imagine the very first time a bagpipe was used a fight broke out there and then...

waht so wrong about bagpipe music? i love it! im listening to some right now!

Many medieval pipes had fewer drones which give them a slightly different sound.

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Jehan de Pelham wrote:Those are very interesting. German mid to late 15th century?

I think the last one is earlier in the 15th century. I actually did a broader after I posted and saw more but I didn't pay any attention to the dates of most of those that weren't late-15th century.

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Ever since I saw these paintings I thought this would be an interesting solution.

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Raulin Arbor wrote:This thread needs more chicks kissing!

Chicks making out is period right?

[img]http://www.mediumaevum.com/aa/leskiss.JPG[/img]

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Tried to Delete but Maeryk is too quick

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Hey Doug, I will be at Blackstone Raids this year if you still want to do a deed of arms. Doug you should go! I am sure we can scrounge up enough gear for you. Plus you are only about 30 min away from the site. You should go Doug. While I'm sure Vitus will ensure you get a couple of good bruises to...

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You might check Contamine's(sp?) article on music or instruments and warfare in the later middle ages. It is in French and I believe on the De Re Militari website. The earliest visual references to instruments being used to keep time in like a march I think is like 1460 in Italy. But you see instrum...

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My point is, you said soemthing along the lines of "that favor puts you with everyone else in the SCA". It doesn't. Not even a little bit. Have you seen Sir Rhys' kit? He fought with illegal gauntlets for _years_ because they were right for his persona, period. The SCA has a buttload of l...

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Yea the details of the first level of no ground fires is really what I was most interested in. Like what about things like a fire box like thing that is above ground. While it is always nice to hope for the best the better prepared for the worst you are the better.

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We _DO_ use them in the SCA. You are the dicksmack who thinks that holding a group to a standard it does not hold itself to, and then snarking it makes you somehow a beacon of goodness and light. You know I don't think I've ever heard the term dicksmack. You know you really are one of the best just...

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MattB wrote:My next 15thC Harness!!!!!!

Well you know that helmet looks an awful like those ugly c1510 flat face salletish helmets.

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I know more than a couple hundred people lived during the middle ages, though I have no _evidence_ of their individual existance. Part of the problem is the idea of the Middle Ages as a period. The evidence changes so radically over the course of that time that what you can say based off the eviden...

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