The Armour Archive

Karen Larsdatter

Good idea, Thomas! I do not mean this to sound insulting, but I think Gies & Gies' Women in the Middle Ages might be a good source to point Ean to (in terms of reading level, and introducing him to some real medieval women, without going too hifalutin' academic). Some more sources (with ISBNs): Wome...

Karen Larsdatter

Is this a pouch for a man or a woman? As Olivier-not-Olsk mentioned, there's the linkspage , but Mittelalterliche UmhÃƒÂ¤ngetasche has some good details of the satchel that comes up a lot on the Maciejowski Bible, and there's construction information at How to make a replica of the 13th Century Satc...

Karen Larsdatter

It looks like a lovely warm cloak made of fulled wool.

Look at the Burnoose of Bishop Timotheus circa 1375, and What they could have worn in Jerusalem in 1184.

Karen Larsdatter

Also, any evidence that such "all-in-one" chausses were ever made all of leather? In some cases, you might be looking at hip-high riding boots, which may have attached via points much like chausses. Some examples can be found in Gaston Phebus' Book of the Hunt , including fols. 54 , 57v , and 70 . ...

Karen Larsdatter

Woodwindy wrote:Hah! That's great!!! I wonder how many folks are running around out there with persona names taken from Disney movies...

The noted German troubadour Minnemaus?

From the Scottish Highlands, perhaps SgrÃƒÂºdh mac Duch?

Or a lovable Anglo-Saxon named WinÃƒÂ ÃƒÂ°e PÃƒÂº?

Karen Larsdatter

Wulfe wrote:The more I think about it, the more I like the idea of silk lining. Any support for it?

Linings (from A comparative study of extant garments relevant to East Denmark in the mid-to-late 14th Century)
An Overview of the Women's Garments in Patterns of Fashion

Karen Larsdatter

Fire Stryker wrote:Hourd might indicate the padded armour for the horses used during the charge.

Is it etymologically related to behourd?

Karen Larsdatter

Thought some people might like to see these, if they hadn't already: BNF Richelieu Fr MS 2692 and 2695.

Karen Larsdatter

Oh! Okay. I will be not sad now. But I will be sad that you're reverse-engineering stuff from boughten clothes ... cos that just sounds kinda wrong, ethically. I'm not going to get too angry at you, because on the other hand, my husband pointed at a cote that he really wanted on the Historic Enterpr...

Karen Larsdatter

I have seen no documentaion one way or another on linings. Umm ... be more specific, because otherwise I'm going to point you at the blue linen lining on the Golden Gown of Queen Margrethe and the linings of other extant garments, and then I'll find something from the Paston letters (like bits from...

Karen Larsdatter

I'd suggest Courtly Culture: Literature and Society in the High Middle Ages by Joachim Bumke, but that's more focused on Germany in the 12th and 13th centuries. (But it is an interesting read, anyway.)

Maybe you'd also like to look at links to 12th century living history organizations?

Karen Larsdatter

apolloniavoss wrote:Any other ideas?

The colors (and to some extent, the geometry) reminds me of carpets (especially table-carpets).

Karen Larsdatter

Just following up here (because I'm not sure if Royce got the email I sent him, or if other people might still be interested in this subject):
Portrait of Sir Anthony Mildmay by Nicholas Hilliard, c. 1585

Karen Larsdatter

BTW Thanks again for showing the chairs from the Bildindex site..Now I just have to read German and I might be able to tell were I'm going in it... Well -- here's your road map . In addition to clicking any time you see the words Sammlungen and Kunstgewerbe (as mentioned in other blithersome postin...

Karen Larsdatter

Sir Eamonn MacCampbell wrote:Thanks for showing it. After seeing yours it makes me want to get busy with mine.

Karen Larsdatter

Argent, in pale three strawberries proper between flaunches gules.

Because I wanted something I'd be able to draw easily.

And because I happen to like strawberries.

Karen Larsdatter

Hmm ... maybe put a felt layer between the collar and the garment? A felt layer in between the ground and the appliqued-on bit will work wonders to give the item more body. Also, along the edges -- maybe couch something over all the edges? That's a medieval western European thing to do to make the g...

Karen Larsdatter

You're welcome The BNF has a bunch of interesting online exhibits like that medieval gastronomy one. Have you seen these? Childhood in the Middle Ages The Game of Chess The Bestiary of the Middle Ages al-Idrisi: The Mediterranean in the 12th Century Cathedrals and Villard de Honnecourt Jean Fouquet...

Karen Larsdatter

Do you mean aciphalica or acephalica? The latter would mean "headless" or "without (a) head," I think.

Karen Larsdatter

For German stuff, get friendly with Bildindex . Can you read German? Here's how I'd recommend navigating ... Go to the main site, and click the word "Orte" at the top. An alphabet pops up at the left. This way of navigating requires you to know what city you plan to visit; it defaults to German citi...

Karen Larsdatter

Side note: the Luttrell Psalter, though officially dated to "the second quarter of the 14th century", is probably more to the latter half of that quarter, i.e. late 1330s through mid 1340s, at least based on clothing styles, IMO. I was basing my estimate (for the Luttrell Psalter) on what the Briti...

Karen Larsdatter

Actually, there are several "funky" ways of wearing hoods that appear throughout the 14th century, on men and women; the style which we commonly refer to as a "chaperon" seems to be the most enduring, and evolves into a more stylized form of headwear (with a padded roll and other foof). The men with...

Karen Larsdatter

the guy thats left with the beard, why is he sitting on the lady that is behind him ... Just looks odd to me, was wondering what the meaning behind somthing like that. The artist on this manuscript is ... umm ... a bit lacking in the ability to render depth of field. Perspective is not his strong s...

Karen Larsdatter

The pendant sleeves, hairstyles, and drawing style remind me of the Romance of Alexander (Bodley MS 264, ca. 1338-44), and to a lesser extent, the Luttrell Psalter (British Library Add. MS 42130, ca. 1320-40). The Romance of Alexander was mostly done in a Flemish workshop; I think the Luttrell Psalt...

Karen Larsdatter

Maredudd wrote:I would like to add a byname meaning "the bald" but haven't yet found the appropriate Saxon term.

The word you seek is "calu," I think.

LeofnoÃƒÂ°e ÃƒÂ°e Calu.

Karen Larsdatter

You know, this is another one of those "sure wish they had Sears Roebuck catalogues back then" issues, because we honestly don't know exactly what was meant by some terms that were used for garments, pieces of armor, etc. In the Paston letters, for example, there's a reference in a draft inventory d...

Karen Larsdatter

I realized fairly early on that I was too dull to remember to respond to any name other than my mundane given name. I found a suitable surname and went with it.

Karen Larsdatter

Dunno if this would make discussion easier, but there are ways to link directly to images in Mandragore. There are many illustrations of young men in very short cotes which appear to have hosen all the way up (such as fols. 87v and 92 ), but fol. D (Machaut et Amour) seems to show the most butt.

Karen Larsdatter

Okay, I've done up a quickie roadmap to some of the interesting bits in Bildindex and posted it to my LiveJournal (since that way, y'all can gang up and look at it without causing error messages, like what happens on the Geocities page) You can get to the entry at m Again -- this only covers the Ger...

Karen Larsdatter

There are some other reasonably good websites along those lines, but those are kinda my faves right now. But I also like to use a Google Image Search if I'm looking for something where I know there's a set terminology for the item in question, though it will always throw back random crap. For exampl...

Karen Larsdatter

Okay, this is based on my experience with Bildindex -- I don't speak German (I can read it a little , and my father-in-law has a PhD in German, which helps on words that really get me stuck). I have not had any real luck with the search engine. The key to using Bildindex is to kinda sorta already kn...

Karen Larsdatter

Just out of curiosity ... where did the wooden coffer and the pewter flagon come from?

(The flagon looks like Millingham's, but I wasn't sure.)

Karen Larsdatter

Karen Larsdatter

Aha! Tried it at home, and it worked! (My work computer doesn't have up-to-date plugins, but I don't have the admin access required to update them myself.)

And now I know a new Spanish vocabulary word for a coffer -- arqueta -- in addition to cofre and cofrecito.

Karen Larsdatter

Estos fotos son buenos, me gustan mucho. No te preocupes; me parece que el sitio de la exibiciÃƒÂ³n tendrÃƒÂ¡ mÃƒÂ¡s fotos, porque hay una pÃƒÂ¡gina que se llama CatÃƒÂ¡logo de obras , pero no hay nada allÃƒÂ; tal vez es un ejemplo de lo que en inglÃƒÂ©s se llama "wishful thinking." Habia una exibi...

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