Armour & Weapons - The Original Classic Edition

Charles John Ffoulkes

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Now when we consider that the word ‘mail’ itself comes to us from the Latin ‘macula’, through the French ‘maille’ and the Italian ‘maglia’, we find that Meyrick’s ‘Mascled mail’ is but a tautological expression which can best be applied to the net-like fabric of the interlinked chain defence, and so his ‘Mascled mail’ would more correctly be styled a ‘Mascled coat’, and this coat would probably be formed of the chain variety as resembling the meshes of a net more closely than any other fabric.
...The illustration from the Romance of Alexander (Fig. 9) shows the gambeson still worn under the mail, and the legs are covered in one instance with a metal-studded or pourpointed defence; a second figure wears what appears to be scale armour, while the third has no detail shown upon the legs, which may be an oversight on the part of the artist, or may suggest that plain hose were worn.

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• Fiction

Informations

• Publié par: Emereo Publishing
• Date de parution: 13 mars 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781486494934
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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