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Clifford Rogers
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 Posted: Tue 11 Sep, 2012 7:52 am Post subject: Buckler and sword, c/14-15, at belt- image? |
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Can anyone point me to a contemporary image of a buckler hung at belt with sword (like Chaucer's yeoman)?
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Raymond Deancona
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| Posted: Tue 11 Sep, 2012 8:17 am Post subject: buckler |
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Here ya go: http://www.thehaca.com/essays/SwordandBucklerP2.htm
There are several illustrations with soldiers carrying their bucklers slung from the sword. You'll have to scroll down the page a bit to find most of the 14th and 15th century illustrations.
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Clifford Rogers
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| Posted: Tue 11 Sep, 2012 8:49 am Post subject: |
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Thanks! that's just what I was looking for.
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William P
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on that subject, your typical bucker is usually how big? about a foot in diameter at max?
how easy or hard is it to carry a buckler around with you like just walking around the camp, or carrying it with you on 'the march'
how burdensome is it?
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Clifford Rogers
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| Posted: Wed 12 Sep, 2012 7:10 am Post subject: |
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| William P wrote: | on that subject, your typical bucker is usually how big? about a foot in diameter at max?
how easy or hard is it to carry a buckler around with you like just walking around the camp, or carrying it with you on 'the march'
how burdensome is it? |
Chaucer's yeoman carried on on pilgrimage through England, so not too burdensome.
Clifford J. Rogers
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Herbert Schmidt
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Here you have a detail of a painting that illustrates one possible method.
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www.arsgladii.at
Historical European Martial Arts
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William P
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| Posted: Thu 13 Sep, 2012 4:34 am Post subject: |
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| Clifford Rogers wrote: | | William P wrote: | on that subject, your typical bucker is usually how big? about a foot in diameter at max?
how easy or hard is it to carry a buckler around with you like just walking around the camp, or carrying it with you on 'the march'
how burdensome is it? |
Chaucer's yeoman carried on on pilgrimage through England, so not too burdensome. |
ah thats good to hear, since the way i see it, if its nice and small and its carried like that so unobtrusively i feel like your never going to really be in a losing position to not carry it aside maybe from the dinner table even if your in full harness having it for when, you cant use your pollax, it seems logical to have that option of a buckler, no matter what.
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Mark T
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Herbert: thanks for that image - that's one of the clearest we've seen yet!
Y'all might want to check out the Carrying Bucklers thread here too.
Chief Librarian/Curator, Isaac Leibowitz Librarmoury
Schallern sind sehr sexy!
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