Pedro Paulo Gaião wrote: |
Thanks a lot, Alex. You could tell me why all these archaeological and artistic evidence findings are always in the historical regions of Italy, Germany or Scandinavia? It's like most of the medieval western nations, such as France and England, had not known these armors until the last two decades of the fourteenth century or whether they only were slow to adopt them anyway. |
Sorry for the late reply. I'll try to answer your question, but I'm only a hobbyist and have no formal education on the matter and this is simply my best (if at least a little educated) guess; Italy and the HRE were basically the main producers of armour at this time. Most of the english and french were ordering their armour from Milan, Nuln, or various other armour producing cities. Mostly only the fabulously wealthy were getting local smiths to custom tailor their personal armour, whereas, the rest were getting their armour made in the aforementioned armouring cities, to be made to measurements sent in, never meeting the armourers in person. It was much, much cheaper to do this way, and the armour was still fantastic, but not quite the work of art the local smith would make for the Fabulously wealthy.
Also keep in mind that the English were still getting "English" armour made in Milan, as that was what they needed, and the armouring cities would often make armour suited to the local fashions of their clients.
This is just what I have gathered from reading various books and discussions, and could be entirely wrong, and if so I would greatly appreciate it if someone more knowledgeable could correct me so I can be ever so slightly less wrong.