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Offline Paul

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Re: Medieval News
« Reply #300 on: April 16, 2015, 04:30:22 PM »
And I always thought Trial  by combat/Battle was two blokes Meeting on the day with whatever weapons and the winner took all.It appears it was way more involved and complicated.

They actually made up duel lists with all the pieces of a knight’s harness from the underwear out, with lawyers creating  specifications for everything from the dimensions of the weapons to the metal of the rivets in the armoured gauntlets and the materials for making the tie-strings for the  underwear   o_o
Would the tie strings of someones Pants influence the outcome of a fight?

Interesting (if Long- over 300 sides) read
https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/67806/3/elema_ariella_m_201211_PhD_thesis.pdf
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Re: Medieval News
« Reply #301 on: April 16, 2015, 08:38:56 PM »
Such horror, to bring eternal shame upon your family, because the judge found out that your braie's drawstrings were overlong by an inch during a judicial duel.  o_o

Interesting reading judging by first looks, I'll see if I can make some time to properly read it this weekend.
(I do love the fact that such theses are publicly accessible these days!)

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Re: Medieval News
« Reply #302 on: April 18, 2015, 05:02:01 PM »
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Digging beneath the building, the family soon discovered a subterranean world, “tracing back before the birth of Jesus: a Messapian tomb, a Roman granary, a Franciscan chapel and even etchings from the Knights Templar
:..and all that I find when digging a hole is, well, the bottom of the hole...
http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/man-intent-fixing-toilet-uncovers-centuries-old-subterranean-world-020299

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Re: Medieval News
« Reply #303 on: April 19, 2015, 11:03:23 AM »
Wow, amazed (and glad) he kept at it and made it publicly accessible. Most people would have either covered it up or do a token, minimal effort to appease city preservation guidelines...
(Trying so hard not to make a "find old crap when fixing the toilet" quip right now... lol)
I hope I remember about this if/when I ever find myself in southern Italy.

Offline Steve F

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Re: Medieval News
« Reply #304 on: April 19, 2015, 11:07:01 AM »
Would the tie strings of someones Pants influence the outcome of a fight?

That's been the big omission in every set of skirmish rules I've ever used.

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Re: Medieval News
« Reply #305 on: April 20, 2015, 02:38:45 PM »
They actually made up duel lists with all the pieces of a knight’s harness from the underwear out, with lawyers creating  specifications for everything from the dimensions of the weapons to the metal of the rivets in the armoured gauntlets and the materials for making the tie-strings for the  underwear
The full text describing clothing and equipments of the (14th century) Beaumanoir vs Tournemine duel, mentioned in the thesis, is easy to find (in French) it was copied from period sources in the 18th century. The first time I've read it I was astonished by so many details.

Would the tie strings of someones Pants influence the outcome of a fight?
As a Re-enactor I have always been wearing pants and underwear as authentic as possible, so I can answer  to this question with my own experience.

And the answer is: Yes. :( :'(

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Re: Medieval News
« Reply #306 on: May 15, 2015, 07:52:34 AM »

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A series of "very unusual burials" were found at the site, including a woman found in a face down position, another who was a victim of blunt force trauma to the back of the head, and a stillborn child.
?? How do they know it was stillborn?

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-32706059

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Re: Medieval News
« Reply #307 on: May 15, 2015, 07:56:58 AM »

Italian "witch Girl"

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Like other deviant burials, in which the dead were buried with a brick in the mouth, nailed or staked to the ground, or even decapitated and dismembered, the prone burials aimed to humiliate the dead and impede the individual from rising from the grave.
http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/medieval-witch-girl-likely-just-suffered-from-scurvy-150502.htm

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Re: Medieval News
« Reply #308 on: May 28, 2015, 05:39:41 PM »
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Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of hundreds of medieval scholars, all fallen upon hard times, on the site what is now a Cambridge College.
Well, at least one (far left) was buried with a glass of beer ::)


http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/skeletons-of-scholars-found-in-cambridge-university-photos-150401.htm

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Re: Medieval News
« Reply #309 on: August 14, 2015, 02:42:26 PM »
NDXOXCHWDRGHDXORVI ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVRG94JLMus#t=25
(Ignore the annoying  "anonymous" style voice)

Offline Atheling

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Re: Medieval News- After Bannockburn on BBCi again
« Reply #310 on: August 20, 2015, 01:25:59 PM »
For those who may have missed it the first time around or simply want to watch it again:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b05p3d0l/after-bannockburn-1-war-of-the-three-kings-part-one

Darrell.

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Re: Medieval News
« Reply #311 on: August 20, 2015, 04:25:10 PM »
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BBC iPlayer TV programmes are available to play in the UK only.
:'( :'( :'( :'(

Offline Atheling

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Re: Medieval News
« Reply #312 on: August 20, 2015, 04:47:46 PM »
:'( :'( :'( :'(

Maybe someone's uploaded uo on Youtube Paul?

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Offline Atheling

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Re: Medieval News
« Reply #313 on: August 20, 2015, 04:49:36 PM »
Maybe someone's uploaded uo on Youtube Paul?

Darrell.

In fact they have:

Part 1:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU6fSBBML8w

Part 2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw2KlTiNoJw

:)

Darrell.

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Re: Medieval News
« Reply #314 on: August 20, 2015, 08:00:27 PM »
Brilliant!!! Thanks Matey  :) :) :) :) :) :)

 

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