The Armour Archive

Norman

It is allowed to give a man two cups of root-tea for jaundice providing he was already impotent . But even this is prohibited! This is ludicrous. Note how in the same quote it says - "this is allowed" but then "even this is prohibited"? And a few sentences before, there is anoth...

Norman

Reread the argument about curing jaundice being a bad thing because it is "deliberately" making someone a eunuch. In the words of Indigo Montoya "I don't think it means what you think it means" This is the problem with quoting decontexted Talmudic discussion. All sorts of people...

Norman

Karen, Thank you tremendously for your research Heh I guess I should have started in the logical place to start on this issue - ask a rabbi ...now I'll have to find one who'll humour my inquiries Your title specified Early Medieval Rome, which would be Western Europe. Byzantium would be the title of...

Norman

Yes chef, I am familiar with everything you advise about (I'm stuck with a prohibition against having fish and meat in the same course of a meal because Maimonades thought it would be a bad idea based on that whole humours theory) However - there are degrees of medicialness, The drink Karen found ci...

Norman

Jewish legal discussions cite to the Talmud in discussions pertaining to the brewing of tea. ... Anyone have any more on this? Yep. This is (probably) not the tea you are looking for. [...google books talmudic quote on medicinal mixture...] Nope. I'm talking about a drink of leaves steeped in water...

Norman

The recent coffee discussions got me thinking -- Jewish legal discussions cite to the Talmud in discussions pertaining to the brewing of tea. Unfortunately, I have yet to see the specific text but it seems that the Talmud talks about a drink made by pouring hot water onto leaves -- and the said disc...

Norman

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Norman

The Bayeux Tapestry does show kites with center bosses but that in no way means they were center gripped . In a number of cases, the picture shows the inside with the double-strap center grip attachment I described above. Again, there are much more "realistic" illustrations (one particula...

Norman

As hot as she is, I gotta say -- that armour always made me gag. Now *this* is how you do Japanese chicks in armour: Miss Japan, Kurara Chibana. Right spot on. I prefer Lucy's but I wasn't looking for anything "authentic" -- I like the contrast between the brass, red, black, flesh Plus, w...

Norman

I was just about to recomend Puppy as well.

(what is that called? - he Ninja'd me?)

He is Khan of the Silver Horde (SCA household)

Norman

I'm with chef on this. The book sounds interesting and probably gives some great information, but as an unlocking of some shoking newness about the role of women? Doesn't Chaucer's (or maybe it was Boccaccio's) forward talk about his being a book to amuse women? And there are some wonderful stories,...

Norman

I liked her scale armour
...but can't find any photos online

-- maybe I was the only one - and that's why I can't find it online -- it's the only costume she had which was essentialy a full dress
(and the only essentialy "real" armour)

Norman

That's a great photo of the Yaroslav helmet! Thanks for the find. The hat of Monomah is here m the cross and fur were added at sometime after the 1517-1526 (when a German diplomat described seeing it) also - there had at the time been dangling golden medalions which "moved about like snakes&quo...

Norman

Y'all just had to bring this back right? but it was not the human populations at all that was compared, that was a deliberate misquote, the structure of the Mongol Empire was called parasitic, ie it rode on the backs of the ruled. Every ruling despot (or despotic class) can be described in that mann...

Norman

The Bayeux Tapestry has a number of illustrations of the inside of teardrop shields (same as kite right?). Centergrips are quite common and appear both vertical and horizontal. The best illustration of the inside of a centergripped teardrop shield that I saw was an initial letter (I think 12 cent) s...

Norman

Diorama of Kiev in the Kievan Rus period (roughly 10-13 cent) AWESOME. I have a friend who chose to punish himself by adopting a Kipchak SCA persona, and he's putting armor together. Wants my help with the hat. I ran into a picture of a similar looking helmet face on your site, actually. I assume t...

Norman

This one?
http://jas-townsend.com/product_info.ph ... cts_id=706

Norman

I've been plowing through here for the last few hours. it's all in Russian Worse -- that's Ukranian Whatever Діорама Києва часів Київської ...

Norman

anyone have a picture of one of these? Sun hats: Among archaeological finds is a round summer hat plaited from pine roots with a flat crown and rather large brim from Novgorod, reminiscent of the later Ukrainian brilâ€™ [бриль], or stylish at the beginning of our centu...

Norman

Great! So I can use Bazubands with my Madu! As you ride into Pennsic woods battle on your Viking War Elephant Oh be serious. No way an elephant is going to survive a Norse winter! As a matter of actual fact, Charlemagne had an elephant at court, it was given to him as a gift by the ruler of Persia ...

Norman

I haven't fought SCA rattan in like over 10 years and even then I always prefered steel weapons so take anything I got to say in that vein. I was raised as a steel armourer so the idea of using anything else never entered my mind. But when I started in my lovely Turkish suit I got lots of suggestion...

Norman

I see no problem with a plastic CoP, as long as it is covered, nor a plastic corenza (sp?) as long as it is covered. It's spelled Credenza and wood would be much nicer than plastic ...a nice cherry with brass handles. Probably not too comfortible to fight in though ...maybe a castle siege defense s...

Norman

Sigifrith Hauknefr wrote:Great! So I can use Bazubands with my Madu!

As you ride into Pennsic woods battle on your Viking War Elephant

Norman

PS - quilted mittens were definitely used as a hand armour by the Russians as are hard (leather and brocade) back of the hand protections in the shape of mittens (attached to Naruchi/ Bazubands) in later periods both as Russian and "Oriental" armour OOHH that sounds very promising.... any...

Norman

I think this last is "Oriental" probably Mamluke
Compare: http://www.geocities.com/normanjfin/bel ... yrblt.html

Norman

http://horvathdp.googlepages.com/CLOTHING.pdf This might help you a bit. There are four mittens shown at page 10 of the article. PS - quilted mittens were definitely used as a hand armour by the Russians as are hard (leather and brocade) back of the hand protections in the shape of mittens (attache...

Norman

Voila!
Try here --
http://alternathistory.livejournal.com/41495.html
At the bottom there is a link to a PDF file that seems to be the book
I'm not sure since my company firewalled the link

Norman

they're from : Michail Gorelik "Armii Mongolo-Tatar X-XIV " ... in Russian only Pictures have no language. How picture heavy is it? It might be worth looking into for me anyhow. Well... You do need to know what a line drawing or painting is based on or what it is supposed to represent -- ...

Norman

Its kinda weird if the gauntlets don't even fit the guy who took the photo for the site.

Norman

What you have posted, however, is very (VERY) similar to mittens seen in 14th & 15th century Netherlandish art, usually on the hands of shepards, in pictures of the Adoration. I would therfore suspect such mittens are a long-standing, contnuous tradition in Northern Europe. No indication of any...

Norman

Dang. I was complementing you man.

Both Torum and I will benefit if you constructively criticise the one answer I had available for him
even if you do choose to rip me a new one while you are at it (which you have done every time).

This time you are not being constructive though

Norman

This has been sitting unanswered for so long. Maybe if I pipe up people will yell at me and a conversation will start. You Suck! did that help any? Na You gotta learn from Chef. I need an extensive paragraph with citations and references proving that I suck with respect to the conversation at hand.

Norman

I'm guessing that since he's published a book, he'd rather you bought it than swiped patterns for free
http://helmschmiedt.narod.ru/book.html

Um ...just realised this conversation is from 2005

Norman

I have a small leather lame loose riveted much like you would rivet the steel lames at the top and bottom of an elbow coup.
Here is another option based on 16th century Mogul art.
[img]http://www.geocities.com/normlaw/r-brace.gif[/img]

Norman

This has been sitting unanswered for so long. Maybe if I pipe up people will yell at me and a conversation will start. Firstly I believe by common definition Vendel is not the same as Viking -- Vendel is 5 to 7 century. Viking start about 8th see also Valsgarde -- Vendel and Valsgarde are both actua...

Tea in classical and early medieval Rome and/or Persia ??