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Post by Sir Didymous LaRoth on Feb 13, 2013 22:16:56 GMT -5
Does anyone else find it odd/ comical that we are reliving various events from the middle ages? The Pope steps down (1400's) Scottland wishes to leave the UK (1200's) and Richard III's death is considered news again. The US military also redesigned the standard combat equipment over the last 10 years to include the flack jacket (brigandine), groin protection (cod piece), and the helmet is modeled after a german gothic sallet.
Now is a great time to be a medievalist.
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Post by Frere Reynald de Pensax on Feb 21, 2013 3:45:02 GMT -5
As Confucious said, 'If thou would'st know the future, study the past'. The Antikythera mechanism proves just how advanced ancient technology was, and many of our modern ideas are just re-hashes of old ones.
One point I'd like to make about the brigandine: they are sometimes described as a poor man's substitute for plate. William Catesby's 1484 inventory lists a brigandine of his covered in cloth of gold: now I ask you, does that sound like the equipment of a poor man?
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Post by Sir John Karloff II on Feb 9, 2014 17:16:55 GMT -5
it tis fun to be a reenactor! you can try to kill each other and get away with it! ya gotta love it!
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Post by Dame Dorothia Karloff on Feb 16, 2014 15:54:41 GMT -5
I like the clothes of our time period because there way more comfy then the stuff they wear now.but look at leggens,knight gowns,prom formals,shoes,etc.they look pretty close to midevil. Reinactor wear.just sayen!
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Post by Lady Latitia LaRoth on Feb 19, 2014 21:52:24 GMT -5
But some things that would be dare to of shown is thier wrist ankels and thing like that or even most stuff that inpiered is of a closer time and then it more inccentuate the body
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Post by Dame Dorothia Karloff on Feb 20, 2014 21:00:14 GMT -5
it tis fun to be a reenactor! you can try to kill each other and get away with it! ya gotta love it! i wouldn't mind going a round with ya but ya probably would kill me or i would kill myself. sewing or sword? i think i do enough damage to myself with a needle.i''ve lost alot of blood over these last few years.
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Post by Lady Latitia LaRoth on Feb 21, 2014 14:19:11 GMT -5
I feel that the United State are going to be the way of the romans bc they are alowing pervertion rull what laws we have
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