The Armour Archive

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Having looked at those what is different about this one, just stylle or substance as well. Are there lots of characters or just a few.....

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You sure like assuming things and putting words into other people's mouths, Brent. But I suppose that's what needs to be done when you keep trying to win a pointless semantic argument. No I am not putting words into other peoples mouths. And pointless semantic arguments are the best. I never said E...

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[quote="Gerhard von Liebau"] I read that, and none of it tells me if or how much the book deals with late 13th century tournaments or related material culture. Not a single word of that description helps me to reckon whether or not its relevant to studying the purchase roll from Windsor. If I were s...

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Firstly, Brent, I did click the link. I don't regularly use WorldCat.org and was unable to go beyond the immediate page you linked to find any valuable information. All I could reckon was that "this item is not available online," after finding a link to the HathiTrust library. Then I went to Amazon...

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Sean, Gerhard's reply is exactly why your wishful thinking on these things is a waste of time. Gerhard, was not even willing to take the minute it takes to click and open the link and look further into the book I asked about to see if it answered his questions. And yes that statement is why I asked ...

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In the case of this particular historical document, it's contents are unique in many respects but overall it is also an oddity, unlikely to fit in with research topics that go beyond contemporary tournaments and the associated arms and accoutrements. And, as we know, most of the books and articles ...

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The historical fencers are a great example of what people can do when they put their minds to something and organize! And the antiquarians in the 19th and early 20th century are another good example, because for the most part they were not being paid. The way anyone gets good at a dead language is ...

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These were not in the British library and there is this thing called the Sun that shines light through windows. Most educated people in the 19th century were much better at latin then we are today. And just like today many notes are taken instead of copies. And there is nothing wrong with wiping one...

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Two things. Firstly part of it is that antiquarians looked for neat things to publish. While historians occasionally publish neat things it is frowned upon to go looking for them to find neat things. You are suppose to approach sources in some sort of systematic way. Hence less cool stuff being publ...

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I think the two parameters are a bit much. Let people search by time period and let them decide whether a group is "serious" or "fun" enough for what they want/need. Also, the time periods are too narrow at the upper end. I think most people will simply look by century or general time period --"med...

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I think the two parameters are a bit much. Let people search by time period and let them decide whether a group is "serious" or "fun" enough for what they want/need. Also, the time periods are too narrow at the upper end. I think most people will simply look by century or general time period --"med...

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I am building a new website to help people connect to other people and groups doing their time and place and people nearby who do different periods. Its still pretty early on but I need content to start filling it so I can see how it all ends up working. Please join and put your impressions and grou...

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If you want to do more than one or two piece that way your going to need is a grant of $10s if not $100s of thousands of dollars. You going to pay to either take the pieces to the machine or the other way around and the people to run it and make it worth the while of those who have to be involved. F...

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For such small thickness differences you would need extremely accurate scanning equipment to get good readings. Calipers is the way to go. You just need to get an outside caliper that has measurements built in that is big enough to reach the point you want to measure. As for moving around steel when...

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For sun forger flame retardant I would assume the same. I looked and found nothing but was more curious what you were up to.

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Whats in April?

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Just because someone lives in Ukraine or was born in Ukraine doesn't make them Ukrainian. Same is true for Russia. In fact the majority of people who lived in the Crimea in 2014 identified as Russian. Well, on his Facebook he says he lives in "Simferopol, Ukraine." I suspect he's not a Russian livi...

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His videos are great! By the way, he's Ukrainian, not Russian. At least until he gets used to living under Russian auspices in Simferopol. ;) Just because someone lives in Ukraine or was born in Ukraine doesn't make them Ukrainian. Same is true for Russia. In fact the majority of people who lived i...

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From back when 75 years was a thing.
http://www.liebaart.org/helm/

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Today it is 7 degrees F out. Even with gloves, my fingers were starting to lose finesse after sanding the three plates I have for my spaulder, and I think any warmer gloves I have will be too thick to work properly. Any thoughts? Here is what I did for gloves in the cold when I pruned trees one win...

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Hrolfr wrote:
MediumAevum wrote:The SCA is dead.
Or maybe just this forum.

Rule 1

Which apparently is the reason for statement one.

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The SCA is dead.
Or maybe just this forum.

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Now for the law of unintended consequences: on a blacksmithing site we have the author of a very good book on building propane burners for craft work of various types. It was quickly pirated to his dismay until he found out that the legit sales of his book *doubled* after it was pirated! Now he is ...

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This has been illusions MO for over a decade, or decades.
They also haven't much changed their prices either.
They are who they are.

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It could also be a problem that the people with a 'living history' mindset know that they can't portray the people who got an alabaster effigy when they died without being rich themselves. I once looked up all of the late 14th century Italians in Effigies and Brasses and it was a real 'who's who.' ...

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If it's that late in 15th, quite possible an artist transplanting a rondel from a contemporary (to the artist) armet that he was familiar with to an older bascinet. The place I saw it dated it to 1420 but I knew that was way too early, I'd say its 1460s-70s. http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84...

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Ivar Kullberg wrote: Do you remember where did you see those pictures, or do you have a link to them?

I remember that the sallet with the rondell on the back was in an illumination distinctly mid century 15th century French. The others weren't smoking gun enough to be worth sharing.

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I believe that you will find some artist who put a rondell on the back of an aventail. It won't actually be evidence of anything other than an artist putting rondells in places. I would guess I looked at well over 1,000 illuminations from 1390-1450 plus some other, almost all of which had helmets in...

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Because in history, all you have is evidence, absence from the evidence is absence unless you find evidence. Excusing for basics of biology and the like. The reality is that they are probably making the correct assessment, but if you look hard enough, there is a decent chance you can find a piece o...

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Because in history, all you have is evidence, absence from the evidence is absence unless you find evidence. Excusing for basics of biology and the like. The reality is that they are probably making the correct assessment, but if you look hard enough, there is a decent chance you can find a piece of...

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He was very proud of those legs and he would say my armourer is James Arlen Gillaspie. He'd say some of the stuff he wore was by his friend Johannes but his armourer was James Arlen Gillaspie.

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Also non natives would have been less likely in these documents unless they were denziens.

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You can certainly take the data further back by going to the calendar of close rolls and I think I just used the index. If I recall correctly, they are almost all suits about loans or sureties for things.

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I'm pretty sure my use of "pretty" in the phrase "pretty common" was pretty overstated :D Keep in mind that I'm not a native english speaker so sometimes I include words because I find them pretty ;) I was thinking that you might not be a native speaker then Sean M. jumped in and due to the geograp...

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This is really difficult to quantify, and there are examples that go contrary to what you might think. Like this example of Paul Dolstein who was a Landsknecht at the turn of the 16th century. He and his buddies were hired to invade Sweden on the orders of the Danish king at the time. In this case ...

Re: Can anyone help me find this manuscript?

Re: Source: The Windsor Tournament Roll of 1278

Re: Source: The Windsor Tournament Roll of 1278

Re: Source: The Windsor Tournament Roll of 1278

Re: Source: The Windsor Tournament Roll of 1278

Re: Source: The Windsor Tournament Roll of 1278

Re: Source: The Windsor Tournament Roll of 1278

Re: Source: The Windsor Tournament Roll of 1278

Re: Source: The Windsor Tournament Roll of 1278

Re: Need Help with Impresion/Group website

Re: Need Help with Impresion/Group website

Need Help with Impresion/Group website

Re: Approximating the thickness and weight of historical arm

Re: Approximating the thickness and weight of historical arm

Re: Tent Canvas

Re: Tent Canvas

Re: New videos by Andrey Yumanov

Re: New videos by Andrey Yumanov

Re: Great Helm Patterns pre 1300 a.d. needed.

Re: Working in the cold

Re: North Carolina SCA Heavy Fighter Practices?

Re: North Carolina SCA Heavy Fighter Practices?

Re: Some books online on medieval armor

Re: Anyone heard from Illusion Armoring?

Re: Modern Armour in the English Style

Re: Neck-rondells in bascinets, fiction or not?

Re: Neck-rondells in bascinets, fiction or not?

Re: Neck-rondells in bascinets, fiction or not?

Re: Neck-rondells in bascinets, fiction or not?

Re: Neck-rondells in bascinets, fiction or not?

Re: An old friend passes

Re: Lock up the data

Re: Lock up the data

Re: Anyone seen this before

Re: Anyone seen this before