I keep seeing stuff slagging off English longbow performance. Now I know they were not great against later plate but I thought they were fine against the Crecy...
Thanks Lee ... I would also be interested in any informed opinion: the Society of Ancients BattleDay this year is Poitiers! That means I'm looking at running...
... I've got an article on this coming up in a future Slingshot (Nik could probably give you a copy Phil). In advance of this, the basics conclusions are that...
... Hotspur made a kneeling crossbowman, using a cranequin, wearing a sallet, with the typical Hotspur thick oval base. This may be one of the figures...
... All you have to do is look at the reaction of the French to Crecy. Clearly they get off their vulnerable horses and advance on foot for a reason. Also...
... Ok, a can of worms. The general consenus (I believe?) is that they are not the wonder weapon There are a number of other issues that dictate the battle's...
A thorny problem ... The thing that has interested me - and doubtless the battle Pack will have some bibliographical pointers - is the issue of the hedge ... ...
... Hmm, may bend to that interpretation then. Then again, I may use Dawson's own reconstruction of Byz civilian felt hats + cloth strips, which is rather...
... turban. ... reconstruction of Byz civilian felt hats + cloth strips, which is rather more sedate and simple than the elaborate, handsome twists and folds...
Lee, I have read the Great Warbow by Hardy and Stirckland plus other books and watched the episode of the Weapons that Made Britain (a five part series from...
The Society of Ancients are pleased to announce that the new editor of Slingshot is MARK WATSON. If all goes to plan Mark will take over as from next week...
... The trouble is, Froissart doesn't clearly say this. He says the French cavalry charged along a way with hedges set on each side full of archers. They...
Yes the re-occurring question! Arrows were obviously effective as armour design and technology changed to work against it, arrow design changed to confront it,...
My dog-eared Penguin translation has ... 'They have chosen a length of road strongly protected by hedges and bushes, and they have lined the hedge on both...
... Ah, I'm using my trusty Berners translation. "howbeit they be wisely ordered, and along the way they have fortified strongly the hedges and bushes, one...
Just a few for now, concerning the mid 4th to mid 6th C. 1) Do we believe the art, or the archaeology, on helmets? Attic revival, or a continuation of the...
From: "khurasanminiatures" <khurasanminiatures@...> ... My understanding is that art of the period was very much stylasied in a classical mode and so I'd...
... Actually it strikes me that if Phil based the Foederati as Reg Ax(S) in this list on Burns' book that book wasn't about the period covered by the DBM...
eeek. that just reminded me... its february already and I forgot to renew......... guess the free game period is up.... :-( ... From: nikgaukroger To:...
ARCHAEOLOGY: NECROPOLIS DISCOVERED IN SOUSSE (ANSAmed) - TUNIS, JANUARY 31 - A Punic necropolis dating back to the 4th-5th century BC has been recently...
... Here it is (from de Lettenhove's edition) http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k38926p/f409.table My French isn't very good but this is the "both sides"...
Blaise Montluc, the C16th century Gascon soldier, describes English longbowmen as "not fit to kill chickens", and Montluc would know, having started his career...
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