The Armour Archive

earnest carruthers

"The ones that bring the money in to the English Heritage Society." Not from the reenactors' perspective, most reenactors' prime motivation is not the public, even though they may enjoy dealing with them, I do a lot but it is not why I do what I do, it is not to raise money for a Government charity ...

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Halv "If its the same 'nice' fellow Nigel from Conquest that is on the Hastings Yahoogroup Id rather have my asshairs plucked by an epileptic than have to meet him. " Yep sounds like him. 'Nice' is a relative term. Whilst abrupt and sometimes snippy he is very well intentioned and utterly honourable...

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As Glen says, there are some very good groups going to this one, Conquest namely, who are very good at this era not just militarily. All look out for a large ginger chap called Nigel, he is a Norman... Shame about the shots of some of the kit, it is not a good advert. but hey it is EH's biggest batt...

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Second medieval writing, url listed above. Diane Tillotson, a Tasmanian Paleographer has made a great and very useful site, the excercises are well worth persevering with. Also there is Medieval English Handwriting, Borthwick papers, published in the 1970s, Amazon 1.50 UK pounds, but after many many...

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My two are yet young, but I see the expense curve on the rise....

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" Anyways..Thank you very much...You all have contributed in financially ruining me, because she will probably want every book you have mentioned. Now my horses will starve, and I will still not be able to afford my new armour, and I will probably have to get another job Shocked Laughing Laughing " ...

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What kind of German sallet? As said above there seems a distinct lack of uniformity, unless seemingly for ease of drawing. However you could try looking up Venus and Mars, The world of the Medieval Housebook. Prestel ISBN 3-7913-1991-4 Excellent book for lots of reasons. There are some very well kno...

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Maeryk, are you talking about the whole pavise being curved, ie basically a shield? There is a Burgundian one made that way in the Army Museum at Delft, it is as you say coopered, kind of, It looks that the individual pieces are about 2 inches wide, butted together and not cut parallel, seems like a...

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Mike, according to hanawalt, women generally outlived men, more widows than widowers and more older women than older men. Mind that doesn't actually mean they were necessarily very old of course, relatively speaking, oh I will get back in my box.

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Depending on what era and nation you could still be learning to read and write, or already schooled. Ref Margaret Paston to ame but one lettered woman of 15thC England, Agnes Paston, Mawd Rose, all the Paston women seemd to be literate to varying degrees. As were many others involved in trade or bus...

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To add to Wolf Barbara Hanawalt, the ties that bound, gives interesting break downs of actvities of people of all ages at the point of accidental death. Henrietta Leyser, Medieval women - 450-1500 (in England) Erika Uitz, `Wome in the medieval town (europe) Depending on nation and where in that nati...

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We coped with the rain when camping in a French car park some years back by digging drainage trenches and then buying lots of calvados to distribute to our mates.

Similar thing last year in Holland too, any excuse for strong liquor

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Italian and looks good fun

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LOL at BFV

I thought Crowe was good in Gladioli and as Jack Aubrey and he was good in LA Conf, I would rate him way above Gimpson.

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I suspect the term 'poleaxed' is relatively modern, relating to Poleaxe for sure, but it doesn't seem to exist as a verb in the medieval period.

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Cap', Alan is your man for that kind of stuff, the Libel of English Policy is a book about the protection of English trade against the predations of the Flemish, it is a work of verse, almost medieval hip hop, ie political and rhyming, it mentions the Scots but also just about everyone else, a reall...

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" Ok, so, how's this - for mid 14th cen scottish, use early 14th cen english clothing but use coarser fabrics? " Scotland had defined trading links with europe and England Scotland supplied fleeces, fells and hides and bought and sold fabric and had seemingly a strong trade with Flanders. I refer to...

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Adam, I meant two etymological schools of thought for the word 'poleaxe', as the verb poleaxed is derivative of either, but as you say that in itself has options too. Mike "Anyhooooooo....as long as I can mash people with 'em... Twisted Evil" Well of course. I can imagine two foes of yesteryear squa...

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Mike " It does not refer to an axe being mounted on a long pole (althought the term pole-arm is used for these and other weapons). " It does according to Partridge. well mounted on a pole (pale) at least, length not specified. You can have a poll of an axe that is not a pole axe, ie a hatchet which ...

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According to Eric Partridge, etymologist extraordinaire, pole-axe itself is a description of an axe on a pole, pole being a derivation from 'pale' stake. A poleaxe is an axe on a pole. L palus, stake, becomes Old English Pal, whence Middle english Pol, Pole, English Pole, the Middle english Pollax, ...

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I am pretty sure the sentiment was reciprocated.

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Hi David, are you aware of the description of a doublet of fense? not fencing but defence, similar thing, it is not a full on jack but it is quilted and seems slimmer. English account mid to late 15thC, howards accounts, I toke to the dobelete maker..to make me a dobelete of fense, fore hevery for q...

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Hausbuch Venus and Mars also has a guy extruding.

he in the foreground, bad scan I am afraid but his little package can be seen clear enough

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Museum of london has some leatherware.

Leatherware included small costrels for water or beer to really large ale testing things.

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Alcyoneus have you any sources to point me to? I am aware of cloth printing there from one primary source, Cennini plus the few surviving pieces mostly seem to be Italian*, the Sion textile is apparently, but not aware of the extent in the middle ages. * there is a Flemish printed and coloured texti...

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Captain Jamie " would like to know how much the English reenactment groups are supported by organisations like EH. Do the groups have any other source of funds and how much (if any) of their personal equipment is funded by the group?" To different degree is the answer, not all and not even the major...

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James B "England has War of the Roses, Roman, and Viking events that are time specific and are not mixing the time eras together" We also have events like Kelmarsh Festival of History, all eras covered but not in one mass, displays throughout the weekend, although I was told of a fun all periods fig...

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It has been brung, check the old PM.

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No, thank you sir! Yes it is finely printed stuff. There is a large 14thC printed textile the sion textile historisches museum basel is in two or three parts (ie in separate collections), black and red block printing, linen etc. Huge too. Can't find any images on line, although it is in print. I hav...

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James B. "Dressing medievalish and hitting a guy with a sword is not history. " Well as long as they are wearing the right kit and fighting 'proper;y' then I would say it is equally LH. I have only learned from surfing this site that there is a distinction between what is seen as LH in UK and in the...

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Klaus "ut it does appear to shoot a hole in the general theory that expensive decorative fabrics (for people or objects) had to be wool or silk" by all accounts all fabrics were used, linen was very commonly used for wall hangings, altar cloths etc. Quite well documented as to restrictions on their ...

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Duncan. "I don't know. A lot of the pics I have seen of large meeles in England seem fairly mixed on the Quality of harness and ever very much on the time period. Nearly as anacronistic as the SCA and while many of the kits were better than the low end of the SCA I wouldn't say that the majority of ...

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Nice one jehan.

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Nice kit.

Nice price. No mortgage to buy it.

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Oswyn " I was not in any way trying to imply that LH groups were exclusive. I am sorry if it might have came across that way." Nor did you mate, so no need to apologise in the slightest, in a similar vein to my reply to William's I was counterpointing it rather than challenging you because there are...