The Armour Archive

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I received mine come time this week.

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Heraldry et al should go under Interpretive Recreation or Historical Research depending upon the direction the person is going. Why put things in two spots when you can give it a spot of its own, since it comes up frequently enough? A single heraldry question should only belong in one spot or the o...

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This is without point as you are obviously bigoted against Rome.

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Actually I am stating that they chose political motivations over scholastic motivations. We cannot look at the events of the Counter-Reformation and say that they were not primarily political motivated instead of being religiously motivated. The enforcement of the Vulgate on the general populace wa...

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Your assuming they knew the Greek versions were more accurate, they chose the conservative route. Unfortunately their weren't a lot of Greek Orthodox theologians to help out. We also tend to forget that there were other new Latin versions of the Bible out that the Vulgate was also dealing with. Toda...

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Absolutely. Which is fascinating to me since there were at least two excellent (for their time) Greek Bibles available which is what the protestants used. But when the Catholics chose to translate they went for the Vulgate. I hope to someday get a copy of the Douay Rheims and compare them with the ...

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It was technically illegal but for practical purposes it became widely copied, once you get into the 15th century a bit there are fewer problems because the Lollards cease to be a real threat. Mikhail this whole conversation about versions of the Bible before the reformation. The only reason I broug...

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The Douay-Rheims Bible is the official English translation of the Vulgate, which is the Latin version most widely used in the Middle Ages. Now if you want you can try and track down verses translated into English before the reformation but once you get into the 16th century most bible translations t...

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I think the word most people are missing in the phrase is devoutly. For example Ramon Lull would have said he was not a devout Christian before his conversion. That doesn't mean he wasn't a practicing and believing Catholic it just means he wasn't necessarily devout about it. As a practicing and fai...

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Something to always keep in mind is that there are still people today who are practicing members of the major religions of the Middle Ages. They may take offense if they feel you are slighting their religion. While it is good and well to talk about what is allowed according to the rules sometimes it...

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To those of us who know that stuff we take it for granted but people who aren't as versed in it don't think about things like the fact that the Neville's were opposed to Richard of York being declared king even though they supported him in general. To us these seem normal because the period is full ...

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Randall, sorry I wasn't paying enough attention, I had just been looking at the military assessment of 1457 and was thinking in terms of London and not York. Something that needs to be remembered is that the country wasn't divided into Lancastrians and Yorkists. There were probably a dozen major aff...

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It should also be noted that steel sold as 16gauge today is not to the specification in the rules so you can't start with 16 gauge steel sheet for a helm.

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The Oracle has spoken.

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Randal are those London numbers just from the town or does it include the suburbs or do we even know?

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Gordon makes a good point.

Unless your with a group of people with high quality kits your going to stand out, if your lucky people won't look at you funny.

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Had an interesting conversation yesterday and it may be that the origin of the practice of short sleeve tunics in the SCA comes from over tunics without full length sleeves from like late saxon period or something but they would have been worn over a full length sleeve.

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Is the class being taught by an Literature prof or by History prof? Was there any sort of examples of subjects or advice given on whether it should be mostly primary works and something not heavily covered in secondary literature? Certain things that come to mind would be the idea of the paramour wh...

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When did you end up at Ft. Hook Roak? I always thought you were up north.

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Thats going to be a big list, want to narrow by place some too.

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I happened to need something to read this morning and I happened to have part of the black book of Edward IV in car so I looked up the Yeoman and so I thought I'd post it because it shows how unnovel they are. Yeoman of the Crown, XXIII, most semely persons, clean and strongest archers, honest of co...

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So what were they? To give an extremely short version. They are a development in households most notably royal or great nobles like Burgundy. Where a certain group of servants develop more royal "guard" like functions. Some argue that Henry Tudor brought this idea with him from France whe...

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Maelgwyn, Clermont, audax, Barnet and likely others.
Is said person in Austin proper or another town?
The Barony also has loaner armour and what not and several people who are very good with new comers.

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His hair cut is quite unusual for the era. I wonder what the story is behind that. Could be some sort of Italian reference. You see short hair like that on some people in Italy from Giotto into the 15th century. I'm not familiar enough with 14th century art to know if such cross cultural things are...

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Northern Italy gets hot as hell for half the year too.... The temperature of Hell is relative. Austin, TX has an average of 95 for July and 96 for August Milan has an average of 83 for July and 81 for August Naples has an average of 84 for July and 85 for August Seville, Spain has an average of 95 ...

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I must admit, seeing women run around in cotehardies with no underdress and no sleeves from a couple of inches above the elbow down is one of my big pet peeves. but a lightweight linen underdress doesn't add to the discomfort factor at all. What a lightweight linen underdress does do is protect the...

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Northern Italy gets hot as hell for half the year too.... The temperature of Hell is relative. Austin, TX has an average of 95 for July and 96 for August Milan has an average of 83 for July and 81 for August Naples has an average of 84 for July and 85 for August Seville, Spain has an average of 95 ...

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This isn't strictly on-topic, I guess, but this forum was the best fit I could figure, and I think it'd be of interest to the metal-workers on the Archive. I would generally say that the armour forum proper would be the best place but I think it brings up an interesting question as to whether or no...

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There are a two pictures on the breeches page Karen linked to showing Lancelot in his boxers. In one he's killing a guy. m My lore fu is weak. What's the story behind that? Quarrel at a gentlemen's bath house? Lancelot for some reason I don't remember stubles across a pavilion and goes in and sleep...

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If you don't get a buyer in a week or so drop me a PM. I should have the access to the money by then.

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If Techniques of Medieval Armour Reproduction 14th Cent <pending> falls through let me know I'm sure I've got some stuff that would interest you.

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Jesus isn't a noble, he may be the son of God but he's also the son of a carpenter. Unless you want to count sleeves which are open and show the shirt underneath I'm gonna have to say that I can't think of any lower arm exposure. At least as part of normal dress. One thing that as a culture we seem ...

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You might ask Maelgwyn about wool felt for insoles because he has some and I think someone else locally has extra or some such. Reality is that your likely going to need something more significant then that for fighting on concrete. I wonder if a double sole might help. Although I don't know anyone ...

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I do a similar thing for soles on turnshoes. I use a dremel with a very small bit to do the holes. I use a ruler though. How do the holes come out looking compared to just doing it with a straight awl? Never really paid a lot of attention to how they looked one way or another. I wouldn't be surpris...

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Michael de Buslingthorpe wrote:All of my stitching is done by hand. I just use a marking wheel to lay out my stitches, and then I drill my holes with a drill press and a really friggin small bit.

I do a similar thing for soles on turnshoes. I use a dremel with a very small bit to do the holes. I use a ruler though.

Re: Yeoman Warders and Yeoman of the Guard

Re: Credit Long Overdue

Re: "Document holder" water bottle carrier