Posts: 1,420 Location: New Orleans
Sat 12 Jun, 2010 6:07 pm
| Gottfried P. Doerler wrote: |
thx, thats very enlightening.
i think i will buy "knight and the blast furnace" myself, although it seems to be not in stock at the moment. (at amazon) |
Yeah it's about $300 in used book circles last time I checked. Hopefully they will reprint it i think there is some demand, a lot of HEMA people and weapon and armor enthusiasts / collectors are really interested in it.
There is a partial scan of it on google books, here:
http://books.google.com/books?id=GpVbnsqAzxIC...mp;f=false
J
EDIT: I'd like to also add, I recently read an interesting anecdote about Reiter (pistol-armed) knights in the 16th early 17th Century; apparently when fighting other heavy cavalry (including other Reiters and lance-armed gendarmes etc.) they were advised to shoot at point -blank range, almost touching, and aim for the thigh, or face (in many cases open in armor of this period) or at the neck of the horse, because these areas were less heavily armored. I thought that was pretty interesting.
Posts: 2,698 Location: Indonesia
Sun 13 Jun, 2010 2:14 am
| Jean Henri Chandler wrote: |
| I'd like to also add, I recently read an interesting anecdote about Reiter (pistol-armed) knights in the 16th early 17th Century; apparently when fighting other heavy cavalry (including other Reiters and lance-armed gendarmes etc.) they were advised to shoot at point -blank range, almost touching, and aim for the thigh, or face (in many cases open in armor of this period) or at the neck of the horse, because these areas were less heavily armored. I thought that was pretty interesting. |
It's not an anecdote. It's what the real manuals said (as opposed to secondary sources written by nonspecialist 19th- and 20th-century historians).
Posts: 50 Location: Hungary/France
Sun 13 Jun, 2010 4:44 am
Greetings!
I have seen multiple similar pieces in Austria, whit such multil lamed pauldrons, and even these engravements occur quite often, altough they are rather pictures about armed men kneeling in front of the crucified Christ.
Armourers, who used multi lamed pauldrons and were mentioned in the book of Dr. Peter Krenn: Harnisch und helm
Michael Witz the younger (1525-1565) Innsbruck
Conrad Richter (ca. 1560) Augsburg ,,The best and most diligent as well as most skillful in hardening" /Archduke Ferdinand of Tyrol)
Hans Prenner (beginning of the XVIIth century) Graz
John
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