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- Tue Feb 10, 2015 8:07 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Article on THE BRIGANDINE FROM THE POLISH ARMY MUSEUM
- Replies: 51
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Re: Article on THE BRIGANDINE FROM THE POLISH ARMY MUSEUM
Style and construction, size of plates and nail pattern indicate a date closer to 1500 than 1400. The earliest I'd date it is about 1480. There is a very stubborn and strong opinion to date these far earlier than is likely. The late 14th century fresco's posted show the same general idea, but the pl...
- Thu Sep 11, 2014 12:35 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Scale & Mail Skirts in late 15th or early 16th century?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 890
Re: Scale & Mail Skirts in late 15th or early 16th century?
Evidence for 100 years prior, I don't know about that late, though.
- Mon Sep 08, 2014 8:34 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: "3,900 year old suit of bone armour unearthed" - Siberia
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1058
Re: "3,900 year old suit of bone armour unearthed" - Siberia
Very interesting. I wonder how effective it may have been? The image of the reconstruction makes it look very similar to what developed into typical lamellar. I have to wonder if that is accurate, or knowledge of later armour informing the illustrator.
- Thu Sep 04, 2014 6:48 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Council of War?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 979
Re: Council of War?
Vaughn, in his volume covering John the Fearless, has a battle plan, or plan of march, which was recorded for an Anglo-Burgundian expeditionary force, in 1418. What you are asking for was secret when it occurred, and so beyond ephemeral. The Agincourt plan which was re-discovered some years back is ...
- Tue Sep 02, 2014 9:04 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Robert the Bruce Prints - Reed Fine Arts
- Replies: 0
- Views: 399
Robert the Bruce Prints - Reed Fine Arts
I don't normally advertise things, or sell them, but we have a small selection of prints available, from the renowned Heraldic Artist Andrew Stewart Jamieson, who did a 'Grand Armorial' of Robert the Bruce for us, for which we have the merchandising rights. http://fineartamerica.com/featured/robert-...
- Thu Aug 28, 2014 8:43 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Arming and clothing a European pirate late 14th century?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2969
Re: Arming and clothing a European pirate late 14th century?
Depends in large part on the rig of the vessel. An under-crewed brig might be an over-crewed schooner, transferring crew from one vessel to another. Ship owners have always strived to increase profit, and decrease expenditure. In the case of a caravel, or a cog, we are talking about a vessel typical...
- Wed Aug 27, 2014 8:14 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Arming and clothing a European pirate late 14th century?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2969
Re: Arming and clothing a European pirate late 14th century?
I am hunting, Randall, I believe I saw it in a Boydell catalog. None of these are what I am thinking of, but are on the theme. http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?index=books&linkCode=qs&keywords=9780231123563 http://www.amazon.com/Shipping-Trade-Crusade-Medieval-Mediterranean/dp/1409437531/ref=sr_1_32?...
- Wed Aug 27, 2014 7:46 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Arming and clothing a European pirate late 14th century?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2969
Re: Arming and clothing a European pirate late 14th century?
I have to get that horribly expensive book on mercantile activities in the Med, and see what is out there for information on Europe in general. The primary reasons for switches to the various later ship types were the efficiency and ratio of crew to tonnes of cargo. In the case of the Carrack and Ga...
- Tue Aug 26, 2014 5:25 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Arming and clothing a European pirate late 14th century?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2969
Re: Arming and clothing a European pirate late 14th century?
So, are those Kings ships? Because a caravel or a cog could be sailed by far fewer men.
- Tue Aug 26, 2014 8:33 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Arming and clothing a European pirate late 14th century?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2969
Re: Arming and clothing a European pirate late 14th century?
Sailing crews for a caravel, or a cog could be quite small, a half dozen. Crew sizes increased with larger and more complex sail rigs.
- Mon Aug 25, 2014 7:46 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Arming and clothing a European pirate late 14th century?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2969
Re: Arming and clothing a European pirate late 14th century?
While very interesting, those are Kings ships arrested for service in expeditions - not ships issued with letters of marque to recover their lost goods ("Pirates"), which would be relying on their own resources, not the crowns armouries.
- Sun Aug 24, 2014 8:27 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Arming and clothing a European pirate late 14th century?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2969
Re: Arming and clothing a European pirate late 14th century?
You have to keep in mind the likely size of the crew, Randall. Depending on ship type, that may be more arms than working crew.
- Sat Aug 23, 2014 8:42 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: 15-16thC kneepads
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1296
Re: 15-16thC kneepads
But that could mean cut away at the back of the knee, which there are more visual examples of.
- Fri Aug 22, 2014 11:48 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: 15-16thC kneepads
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1296
Re: 15-16thC kneepads
I have no idea with what is going on with the leggings. I have seen no parallel in German art, regarding the legs (hose separated at the knee). The once extant mail chausse example is cut away in the back - not the front, and this is seen in some art (a de Joinville Manuscript, French, 1480's)
- Wed Aug 20, 2014 8:31 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: 15-16thC kneepads
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1296
Re: 15-16thC kneepads
I'm not so sure, chef, as he appears to be one of the soldiers gambling over Christ's robe. Does the right knee look like it's articulated to you? The imagery in the painting is non-traditional. From the colour of his clothing, he would be a 'Jew', and so not a Roman, but then Longinus (presumably)...
- Tue Aug 19, 2014 2:15 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Historical helmet question that has been nagging me...
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1227
Re: Historical helmet question that has been nagging me...
No on both counts, I believe he was mounted, and by the account of Shrewsbury, it penetrated his visor.
- Tue Aug 19, 2014 6:30 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: 15-16thC kneepads
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1296
Re: 15-16thC kneepads
Looking at it in the context of traditional crucifixion scenes, he is likely the carpenter (they usually assign a carpenter to the task in such paintings) who drove the spikes/nails. They usually make the fellow in German gothic art, to be a brute, and he often is wearing trade-specific items of clo...
- Fri Aug 15, 2014 3:52 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Arming and clothing a European pirate late 14th century?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2969
Re: Arming and clothing a European pirate late 14th century?
Interesting how the earlier images are as I describe - no real difference between land or sea basic clothing in the 13th & 14th centuries, but by the mid 15th century, specific items of clothing seem to develop - long 'slops', possibly over hosen (if they are like later 'slops'), and those funky str...
- Fri Aug 15, 2014 8:29 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Arming and clothing a European pirate late 14th century?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2969
Re: Arming and clothing a European pirate late 14th century?
Note - a sailor is not a soldier in the 14th century, if you see Men at Arms on ships in a Northern European context, overwhelmingly these are normal soldiers who normally fight on land, trying to fight at sea.
- Fri Aug 15, 2014 8:28 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Arming and clothing a European pirate late 14th century?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2969
Re: Arming and clothing a European pirate late 14th century?
In the 14th century, the vast majority of ships in England used in military actions were merchant ships which were 'arrested'. In essence, they were drafted into military use - usually from the Cinque ports. Royal ships were only a handful, and often kept in poor repair. They primarily were troop tr...
- Thu Aug 14, 2014 8:08 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Medieval key rings/chains ?
- Replies: 52
- Views: 2791
Re: Medieval key rings/chains ?
One will note that the surrender scenes generally depict the keys to the gates or gatehouses, and towers of a town, not a domestic household arrangement. The 'key sticks' are likely a temporary gathering of such keys.
- Tue Aug 12, 2014 7:36 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: 15th century German elbow gauntlets
- Replies: 12
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Re: 15th century German elbow gauntlets
These are not vambraces, they are gauntlets that extend to the elbow, and replace the need for a vambrace. Looking at the armour, I would describe the whole arm defence as a light form of demi-cannons of the vambrace, or a form of 'splints' (Spleynts, as they are called in English documents of the e...
- Tue Aug 12, 2014 7:28 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: 15th century German elbow gauntlets
- Replies: 12
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Re: 15th century German elbow gauntlets
Vambraces. I have not heard Western European armour referred to in Eastern armour terms interchangeably outside of SCAdian circles.
- Wed Aug 06, 2014 12:21 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: What were the garland/wreath decoration on bascinets called?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1331
Re: What were the garland/wreath decoration on bascinets cal
Torse and orle are not synonyms. One will note the torse is on a great helm, which nobody disputes.
- Fri Aug 01, 2014 9:04 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Sugarloaf Helmet
- Replies: 9
- Views: 741
Re: Sugarloaf Helmet
The brass trim kills it. I don't know of any extant greathelm, complete or fragmentary with an indication it ever had a brass cross. Nice shape though, although how accurate the image it is based on, given the problems of perspective in art at the time that existed, is anyone's guess.
- Tue Jul 29, 2014 7:52 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: What were the garland/wreath decoration on bascinets called?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1331
Re: What were the garland/wreath decoration on bascinets cal
The last looks like a chaperone with a padded roll.
- Mon Jul 28, 2014 8:07 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: What were the garland/wreath decoration on bascinets called?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1331
Re: What were the garland/wreath decoration on bascinets cal
I have never seen an example on a bascinet and aventail. Can anybody provide an image? I have always seen them on Great Bascinets.
- Mon Jul 28, 2014 12:35 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: What were the garland/wreath decoration on bascinets called?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1331
Re: What were the garland/wreath decoration on bascinets cal
A torse is a heraldic achievement, usually worn on a great helm, and seen all across Western Europe. An Orle is a padded roll, that seems to have been of rich fabric and sometimes bearing semi-precious stones - they are only seen on depictions of Great Bascinets, and they seem to have been a first q...
- Wed Jul 23, 2014 6:49 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: How would a late 14th century harness progress start to stop
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1291
Re: How would a late 14th century harness progress start to
To the requirements of the indenture, regardless of station, if not by themselves, than by the person signing the contract.
- Wed Jul 23, 2014 6:46 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Is this really a samurai shield?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3882
Re: Is this really a samurai shield?
OK, lacquered iron then. I still think it more likely Korean or Chinese than Japanese.
- Sun Jul 20, 2014 4:29 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: How would a late 14th century harness progress start to stop
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1291
Re: How would a late 14th century harness progress start to
I use the term 'lord' loosely (or more correctly, in the context of social history). A knight is 'lord' to his squire. If you don't have the equipment to fill the role, you aren't useful in it - the role would be filled by someone with the appropriate equipment. Contracts for retinues specify equipm...
- Fri Jul 11, 2014 11:08 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: How would a late 14th century harness progress start to stop
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1291
Re: How would a late 14th century harness progress start to
More like you would have BEEN POVIDED with the items you could not afford yourself, to fill the role. There is plenty of documentary evidence for lords providing their lance or retinue with equipment - it is the very reason they kept armouries. The Castle of Churburg is a extant example, mostly inta...
- Wed Jul 09, 2014 8:00 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: History of Playing Cards
- Replies: 11
- Views: 672
Re: History of Playing Cards
Keep in mind block printing is well in advance of movable type, and block books exist from the turn of the 15th century. You are discussing ephemera, that was once commonplace, but rarely survives beyond a year or two in use. setting a firm date for ephemera, based on nothing more than an infinitesi...
- Thu Jul 03, 2014 2:25 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: History of Playing Cards
- Replies: 11
- Views: 672
Re: History of Playing Cards
Something about the Earl of Sandwich being such a sucker for cards that he couldn't be bothered to sit down to a proper meal, hence the 'sandwich' was born. Is that just urban legend? I believe it is *sort of* accurate, dating to 1762. http://www.wyzant.com/resources/lessons/english/etymology/words...
- Mon Jun 30, 2014 6:12 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Trouble finding info on Teutonic knights
- Replies: 4
- Views: 565
Re: Trouble finding info on Teutonic knights
You could always write to the order directly (they are online), and ask. They maintain museums, records, etc.