"Misconceptions and Questions Relating to Armor" Topic
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| Tango01 | 16 Mar 2018 11:50 a.m. PST |
"The field of arms and armor is beset with romantic legends, gory myths, and widely held misconceptions. Their origins usually are to be found in a lack of knowledge of, and experience with, genuine objects and their historical background. Most of them are utter nonsense, devoid of any historical base. Perhaps the most infamous example is the notion that "knights had to be hoisted into their saddles with a crane," which is as absurd as it is persistent even among many historians. In other instances, certain technical details that escape an obvious explanation have become the focus of lurid and fantastically imaginative attempts to explain their original function. Among these, the lance rest, an object protruding from the proper right side of many breastplates, probably holds first place…"
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| goragrad | 16 Mar 2018 1:42 p.m. PST |
Some items of interest there. |
| Tango01 | 17 Mar 2018 11:46 a.m. PST |
Glad you enjoyed them my friend!. Amicalement
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