Say what you will about Richard 111 - he was definitely a brave badass who was always at the front in the thick of battle. Both him & his brother Edward 1V were true warriors.
In those days the armorer did not work alone. There were people to finish the armor (platners) People to do the leather work. others still to decorate and line the armor. In the current day the modern armorer must wear many hats. This explains the time it takes the one man shop to get things done.
Can someone tag me if this gets captions? *I can't hear because of a disability, if someone happens to know if he mentions how long it takes to make plate armour, I would appreciate them replying to this
I'm absolutely amazed :-o Fantastic stuff! Thank you. It so interesting, well structured and eloquent. And I am not even interested in armour :-D So thank you, RU-vid, as well, offering me an insight into a new fascinating world, I didn't search for. (Got a video on archery - I didn't search for), watched it, it was very good, got a video on Agincourt - I didn't search for, very good, too - and then this, which I didn't search for. Amazing!)
You know what might help entice more people to study medieval armor? If he released anything but super expensive coffe table books that become completely unavailable within a few years. Are entire pages of black really necessary to present his beloved topic adequately? Did he have to pose in the most badass looking armor imaginable?
41:00 poor city guards painting there cheap helmets in the city colors is the simplest way to identify them in their role. And drastically decrease maintenance. 50 men can share 12 helmets and not worry about one of them not whipping this morning's rain of. 59:20 there are only 5 kinds of medieval bridges along the camino de Santiago (from France) each river has mostly one model, Dating to within 50 years.
I always thought it was funny that when the body was discovered and confirmed to be Richard III, the anti-Shakespeareans smugly pronounced that Shakespeare *was* wrong after all! Richard III wasn't a hunchback...he had Scoliosis! The odd thing being that no one ever accused Shakespeare of being a historian. He was a dramatist and as such, wanted to create drama, which meant create a bad guy for the audience to jeer. Nevertheless, doesn't the Scoliosis somewhat exonerate Shakespeare? After all, would a doctor at the time really distinguish between a "true" hunchback and one who hunched to one side, with a twisted back? Had the skeleton had beautiful, symmetrical spine, then yes, we could say Shakespeare was misinformed by the stories of the time. But all things considered, it's eerie how accurate he was in that regard, considering the play was written over a century after the events in question.
@Ellie5621 If you are referring to Bin Laden, we have the testimony of Rob O'Neill that he personally killed Bin Laden. In the case of Edward's sons, we do have a mystery. It is a disappearance and not yet proved to be a murder. The only remains claimed to be the victims have not been properly identified via carbon dating or DNA. The "confession" is not in written or recorded form and is hearsay. If the bones turn out to be Edward's sons we then have a double murder and can proceed to whether the "confession" holds water. That is how they would do it in court. But you can believe whatever you please. Oh, and scoliosis does not equate to "hunchback". That is kyphosis, a different condition entirely. And there were no contemporary reports beyond one shoulder being slightly higher, which is not the same condition.
Except for the scoliosis in the man they found to substitute for Richard III experiment with custom made armour. For medical reasons he had not had his scoliosis corrected.
i dont think you understand what the phrase means. its not intended to be polite, its meant to be extremely blunt and straight to the point. for example, "would you like a mint?" is a polite way of saying "your breath stinks"
@@warshipsatin8764 I don't know why someone would voluntarily denigrate themselves, in front of a large audience, if they understood how vulgar the expression sounds to international viewers. It's unnecessary and appears to be in conflict with the goal of gaining monetary support. If someone walks up to a stranger and says "your breath stinks", they're not making a friend and they're certainly not eliciting charity. They're making any polite listener really uncomfortable to be there, having witnessed such an absence of grace. It's a similar irony to people who say "I was the perfect gentleman". A real gentleman would never consider any alternative: the phrase categorically disqualifies its speaker from being a gentleman. Likewise, if you say "this is my polite way of saying", nobody who hears it is ever thereafter going to think of you or anything you say as "polite", because you've betrayed that your thoughts are ugly, regardless of the disingenuously prettified concoctions that you may project. PS. I don't think you quite have a firm handle on the term "blunt". When speaking bluntly, one doesn't flounce around with framing language, one simply immediately says what one means. Take this flowery, but almost as petty and obscene parallel: "I think you're really "great", which is to say, I think you're really fat!", a blunt way of saying it would be "I think you're really fat.". I hope you can see that the former example goes to extra effort to be less blunt and more rude.
Oh no, more tips for us Americans. From a Scot-Irish, English descendant, Middleton, Hepburn, Graham, Hamilton. My Aunt taught & won your Carnegie Award in England 1939, Kings School, Headmistress Miss Eleanor Doorly (The Spitfire). Writer of the Radium Woman who traveled in circles you could only dream about. Now, no more tips thank you very much.
i guess scoliosis is rare in the west? i'm from the Philippines and I've met at least 5 people with scoliosis from school alone. and yes, it's not that noticeable with clothes
I had a visible case, but from young age I had special exercises and now I technically still have slight scoliosis but nothing visible, even without clothes
Really interesting lecture. I also saw the show and thought it was fascinating to hear the backstory. For me, one of the most informative parts came at the very end - as little as 45 seconds to turn and charge back? And Richard may have only missed Henry Tudor by a few feet? Dang!
That English armour is a thing if beauty! It looks so lean and quick unlike the Italian armour for fighting on horseback. A suitcase full of money is a nice thing, too, I guess.
godofimagination sounded to me like a 'gunstone'. It's not a term I'm familiar with, but I believe that early cannonballs were made of stone. Maybe it was that?
Aglara Andune a skirt of plates is called a fauld, on which tassets are straped to. in the 16th century tassets turn from solid plates hanging from the fauld to articulated lames themselves, part of the fauld
Cannot believe Dr Tobias does not know the full story of the discovery! A Woman is responsible for pinpointing the exact position of Henry 3rd body? she had the "feeling" that he was under the car park for a long time? it is more complicated than this. and it proved absolutely correct! she knew and was totally convinced that he was there? nobody else was? but when they found the misshapen skeleton, well, all involved were gobsmacked? and only when DNA info came back was she totally believed.
Bryn Noble yea there's a lot more to it than that. And while I wouldn't downplay or minimize that lady's contributions to the find, she does seem a bit loopy with her histrionics and her assertions of ESP. Also, there were plenty of highly qualified people who deserve credit for doing all the technical work on the project.
no she did not, pin point the position. she also claimed he did not have problems with his back, so when they dug him up and see the bent back bone, she said o no meaning its not him. how wrong she was and wrong for a very long time
I think it was probably because there was an introduction that went for more than 4 minutes with nothing but a hand-drawn pencilling sword on the screen whilst asking for money to produce video lectures, followed by a video lecture that actually isn't a video lecture, but a set of slides with an audio lecture over the top of it.
Medieval battles would of been exhausting anyway so would he get much more tired than any other knight? Probably not so much that its a big disadvantage. Henry Tudor must of been shitting himself seeing Richard and his mounted knights charging straight for him to end him. Richard could easily of retreated and lived to fight another day like most leaders do when battles aren't going their way so why did he charge knowing it probably certainly meant his death? He knew Stanley was almost definitely going to fight for Tudor. Stanley stood to gain a lot more from Tudor than Richard if victorious and Richard must of known this. Was he too confident that he would kill Tudor before Stanley commits? Or was it just for honour and pride. His reputation was not good after the princes disappeared so he must of just thought if he succeeds then Henry tudor is dead and Richard is still king and if his cavalry charge fails then he will have a glorious and legendary death to be remembered by men
I would imagine King Ricard III, being a renowned warrior and military commander, was confident that he could take out the inexperienced upstart Henry Tudor before Stanley could get to them, especially given the fact that Henry Tudor wasn't particularly good at fighting. It almost worked too. Henry was running for his life and if not for his retainers fanatically threw themselves at Richard III to slow him down, Henry would've died.
+Timothy Heimbach Black was a colour used by the elite - the process of blacking (& blueing) is a process of oxidation (like the Attic/Greek vases) and showed the observers that the wearer could afford for it to be done that way therefore a statement of wealth, power, prestige and magnificence. From my brief studies I know that Henry VIII's Tonlet was Black with Gold gilding but there are other examples of black armour elsewhere - check out the Wallace Collection.
+Timothy Heimbach Hi not sure how Toby did his but this essay might help show you some techniques - I'm studying 16th Century armour decoration. www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/dect/hd_dect.htm
Timothy Heimbach To blacken the steel (also known as blueing), all you need to do is slowly heat it up to a certain temperature, I used an oxy acetylene torch and just carefully heat the metal until it all turns a consistent color. Not sure if that's how they did it. It's not expensive to do at all so I doubt only the wealth would have blued armors.
