The Armour Archive

"A man who is not remembered while alive, will not be remembered after his death. That same man will be forgotten as the bells toll."

"What greater thing can a king own than the armour which protects his body during the combat?"

Do any of you know the source of these quotes? Are they from the same paper, or just associated?

A&A of the Western World 1964, trans. from the German which was pub. in 1963 (Written by Thomas, Gamber and Schedelmann)

Hi Alcyoneus,

That might be from an early semi-biography/hagiography of Maximilian "Die Weisskonig", which I have never read, and am really primarily aware of from the plethora of engravings that show up in a variety of sources, but most recently have liberaly illustrated "Martial Arts of the Renaissance".

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Bob R.