The Armour Archive

earnest carruthers

"But I'm old enough to remember when he was a good looking young black kid."

Yes so do I as it happens.

"PS I been to the UK and... there are good reasons Paul said what he did. "

Sounds like Alaska is a place to go and drink beer then.

earnest carruthers

There is another woodcut showing a few people being impaled.

earnest carruthers

"(the white British beer guy, not the child molesting singer Rolling Eyes )"

Hey, the child molesting singer is white too you know!

earnest carruthers

Ingvarr "In the Regia fishing article it states that the probable line used for fishing/nets/etc. was a nettle hemp. Would this be pretty widespread or would it vary by time and area? I'm shooting for early 11th Century Jorvik area usage. If nettle hemp is proper there, would it be the same nettles ...

earnest carruthers

RF "The style of the illustration is also very much pre-1500, what with the lack of perspective and such." A bit of a red herring, in manuscript images such as this one, perspective was a choice taken to be used or not, they were well versed in perspective before 1500, the use or lack of is no concr...

earnest carruthers

French. 1500/even 1490 at a pinch

earnest carruthers

I know you were not knocking UK beers, but it was more the 'euro' thing because it is a big old place and beers are having a major resurgence in the UK, certanily the last 20 years has seen marked changes and the reemergence of micro-breweries, in no small thanks to CAMRA. Newcastle Brown ale is ok ...

earnest carruthers

"American craft-brewing is putting out better stuff than Europe!" Entirely subjective analysis and beer production in and across Europe is hugely variable in terms of types, tastes and overall quality - in 'craft beer' sense. That is not to contradict your point re good US beers though. Next time yo...

earnest carruthers

"What would be embroidered on them? I find them stunning, and am hearing my purse empty just thinking of what it would cost to have one reproduced. " You can a have a choice of: embroidery applique with some embroidery painting combined with applique or just painted. Ie the main man could have a pro...

earnest carruthers

yep, indeed, so you are really talking about ales. One of our guys made some porter-type ale with some roasted barley and non-roasted malted barely, plus yeast, it was a passable drink, not something I would put at the top of my list but certainly was not awful and had an alcohol content even....too...

earnest carruthers

John,

that is an excellent site, good for exercises etc, also Dianne Tillotson, the lady who runs it is avery approachable for queries etc.

I can vouch for its usefulness, fwiw.

earnest carruthers

Also to add, the ink used in the original is likely to have been more viscous, the ink recipes usually call for a fair bit of gum to make the ink viscous and to give it lustre, not to adhere it to the substrate. Also the original is on parchment/vellum, less absorbent than paper and therefore will g...

earnest carruthers

"They also mention a homebrew recipe for some. "

Alum is a flame retardant, can wash out though.

earnest carruthers

"Yeah, that pretty much ended it for me too."

yeah me too.

earnest carruthers

Sorry Karen, that was typed in a hurry.

I meant things like sex, love etc. It is amazing how often people ask for certain images of the time.

Oh the very heartiest congratulations by the way, that is excellent news.

earnest carruthers

Excellent work as always Karen.

May I suggest sex?

earnest carruthers

Hi RoC,

fine mate, hope you are too.

I would need to see a pot first, I usually don't need to dry my ink, unless really accidentally blobby as I write mainly on paper, which is more absorbent than parchment.

But pins. Email me

cheers

earnest carruthers

Robert, originals are pretty cheap too.

I can recommend a supplier or too of the repro sort, UK and US.

jorge

earnest carruthers

Try the Museum of London, their Thames (wall) findings stop at circa 1450 - the sides of the thames were re-built every 50 years or so form wood, until 1450 then stone. Belts, shoes, loads of junk chucked as in-fill as well as loss.

earnest carruthers

J de P, no not old, but I can't recall seeing it in any book I have read recently. It is possible that I have missed it, like Gandi says I would have expected it at a school level, but I would see the comparison as pointless, a shilling has no real comparitive value with 5p, it is different currency...

earnest carruthers

Excellent workmanship.

earnest carruthers

Stunned, truly

That is nuts.

I need a cold shower.

er I bet he is pre-decimalisation er,

earnest carruthers

marshal "Given that human death and misery was much more common in the MA than now as well, though, wouldn't we expect that witnessing human killings would have been rather less traumatic then than now, for wide swaths of the populations? " that is the gristle, we from our mainly post-industrial san...

earnest carruthers

Yes by ascribing a modern value he intimates some relative value, when it is not about value but translating what a shilling means. Not that helpful if you are not aware of the context. Suspect a transitional book, doesn't seem that common now in history books. "which was a tax of 2s. per cask of wi...

earnest carruthers

Marshal, the last one I had that was complete was from the early 20thc Everyman series, I have another one only slightly later, it doesn't seem to say abridged or anything.

You might need to hunt for an antiquarian book dealer.

If you are in the US you might want to use these people

http://www.oakknoll.com/results.php?s_T ... &s_Catnr=0

earnest carruthers

Jehan, when was that book written out of interest. Gandi I can't say I have noticed new books making the same double entry as it were. Egfroth explained it much better than I did, nice one. I can remember as a child seeing the term 'new pence' whenever compared to shillings etc, now it is not so new...

earnest carruthers

Hammond must be talking about values relative to decimalisation, when we made the change in 1972 (IIRC) the old shilling as you rightly say previously 12 old pence was revalued at 5 new pence. It would depend on the context of what he wrote, ie "Item x was a shilling in 1338 (5 new pence) in 1980" e...

earnest carruthers

"People in earlier times were familiar to the point of the commonplace with killing and slaughtering animals. Why would the same treatment of a man be invariably and in all cases traumatic---even amongst sociopathic personalities?" Because man is taught not to murder, it is a biblical tenet (a tenet...

earnest carruthers

Thanks C and G, useful to know, there are some things we take for granted because a museum might say so and so.

earnest carruthers

James, sometimes museums don't like flash photography because of concerns of light damage to the exhibits, certainly in galleries this is the case, not to mention licensing, but MoL is very public friendly and are very amenable to people asking to see the real things in viewing rooms. Next time you ...

earnest carruthers

From a contemporary stance, Froissart's chronicles of the wars in France and Spain. I know it is not analytical and not a modern review, but it does make very interesting reading and is exciting too. I would choose that one plus a decent modern review to put modern analyses in the picture too. Dusta...

earnest carruthers

As long as it doesn't misrepresent or bring the part maker into disrepute, but if the part is for a use not originally intended by the manufacturer, say for safety reasons you might need to check that out because the part maker might not want any legal liability contests etc. Conversely it may well ...

earnest carruthers

The ones that survived had the better immune systems, but as there was a continued high mortality from lots of infections then there seems to be no group immunity, ie after a few generations the immunity would be better and mortality lower. Post-partum infection killed off lots of women, lots of bab...

earnest carruthers

"How many days of actual combat would the average medieval warrior expect per year?" guesstimate In say england during WOTR, no days would be the average for all men, but for the raised men, then the fighting was one day out of a short campaign. A day? - not including the smaller numbers of actual v...

earnest carruthers

amazing, thanks