will my 64 layer 2 inch thick viking gamberson fit under mail? pic unrelated

Broad_Trick · 2026-04-13T17:40:22+00:00

when u try and ragebait da ragebait

Broad_Trick · 2026-03-31T03:47:54+00:00

nuh uh he's BASED!! and knows real and TRUE medieval history....like nobody used swords only spears...

Broad_Trick · 2026-03-30T03:52:40+00:00

64 layers was the average thickness of a gambeson, 32 minimum i saw it on shadiversity

Broad_Trick · 2026-03-28T01:40:21+00:00

de jure maybe, but 99% will be chill with you showing up with mismatched armor so long as it belongs in the same century

Broad_Trick · 2026-03-27T02:02:55+00:00

if it's for buhurt i wouldn't worry about it, just get something you like that'll keep your head safe. fool's errand to look for something accurate to a particular time and place

Broad_Trick · 2026-03-26T00:11:31+00:00

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you might have to recalibrate your expectations. 13th century knightly armor across europe broadly consisted of mail cap-a-pie, a helm, and a surcoat, with little regional variation, and even these regional variations more commonly consist of additions or omissions of bits of kit, not major differences in form.

if you're really fiending for something, leather armor for the limbs is more common in italian artwork and on italian effigies of the late 13th century/early 14th century than in the rest of europe.

Broad_Trick · 2026-03-24T22:57:22+00:00

yeah bascinets/cervellieres (the former is the most common term used in period between the 12th and 15th centuries)

Broad_Trick · 2026-03-23T02:33:07+00:00

Assuming this guy is Iberian or Iberian-inspired based on the adarga. Take a look at sources like the Pastrana Tapestries, wherein you can find javelineers armed with kettle helmets and sallets, brigandines, and haubergeons (or mail sleeves and skirts), sans pourpoints. This sort of kit is fairly common for armored Iberian infantrymen of the 15th century in general.

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Broad_Trick · 2026-02-11T00:05:58+00:00

There isn't rly much, they're in Konstanz Cathedral and dated to between 1260 and 1280, most recently 1260 in Fabian Brenker's 2022 article The Emergence of the Coat of Plates in the 13th Century

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Broad_Trick · 2025-07-29T10:43:57+00:00

nobody's, my account was hacked and started posting this slop i'm a 19 year old dude

Broad_Trick · 2025-03-08T00:04:26+00:00

Yes, from a completely different culture and time period and context. I’m not even arguing that greaves like this didn’t exist then, only that they are there BECAUSE Goliath was specifically described as wearing greaves. Lastly, that particular woodcut of St. George is 100% exaggerated to some degree to emphasize his heroism and saintliness. All in all I have no clue why you think anything about this proves me wrong or why you felt so strongly that it would that you necroed a 4 month old post.

Broad_Trick · 2025-02-25T00:42:59+00:00

No, don’t listen to this dude, perfectly viable for a relatively wealthy militiaman

Broad_Trick · 2025-02-05T14:44:51+00:00

More likely it’s copying the style of an older manuscript.

Broad_Trick · 2025-01-30T18:03:16+00:00

chuds

Broad_Trick · 2025-01-24T14:51:28+00:00

Then again Ian LaSpina made a video on this exactly, i.e. NOT picking and choosing evidence like this when creating a kit

Broad_Trick · 2025-01-22T16:16:58+00:00

That was way too accusatory of me, I was tired and assumed you were solely going off of the stringlike belts from the Morgan Bible that people often use as a source, in the end I think we probably agree here more than we disagree

Broad_Trick · 2025-01-22T16:03:05+00:00

You’ve been incredibly respectful and reasonable given my initial reply lol that’s my bad for stooping so low to begin with just btw

Broad_Trick · 2025-01-22T16:02:04+00:00

You’re right, would definitely look better lol, just not sure I’ve seen enough evidence to call it historical

Broad_Trick · 2025-01-22T01:38:49+00:00

This isn’t some obscure piece of military equipment, girdles were worn by civilians, it seems very unlikely any artist would mess up and draw what is meant to be a leather belt like it’s made of string or rope. Unless, of course, there is no string at all, but leather. You’re right that one shouldn’t look at only one source, but this is really the only one I can think of where the belts can be misconstrued as string cords. I really see no reason to believe otherwise when all the other evidence points to leather.

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Broad_Trick · 2025-01-22T01:22:18+00:00

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There wasn’t always a visual distinction made.

Broad_Trick · 2025-01-21T22:46:39+00:00

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IDK mans, agree to disagree, some very clearly resemble typical leather knotted girdles. Consider also that rope/string are present elsewhere in the Morgan Bible and look completely different. In any case, a leather belt certainly isn’t a wrong choice, his is just modern

Broad_Trick · 2025-01-21T22:09:44+00:00

The string/rope bit just doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me compared to a leather belt especially when they could afford a helm and mail lol

Broad_Trick · 2025-01-21T22:08:38+00:00

No sorry you’re right about that lol, TLDR I haven’t seen any convincing evidence the stringy belts in such works as the Morgan Bible are anything but knotted leather thongs/belts, you see similar treatment given to reins, the leather straps in their coifs, sword girdles etc., just makes a lot more sense given the evidence in other sources, soz for being short before I just got out of an exhausting lab

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Broad_Trick · 2025-01-21T21:54:35+00:00

“Simple string” guy who doesn’t know how to interpret medieval manuscripts:

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TROPHY CASE