VEMBRACES

[Dan Howard]

I'm not making a spurious claim Dan, I'm stating that the concept of vambraces didn't just pop out of the blue. Take care using peoples quotes out of context and calling them "sloppy historians"

One historian looks at a sculpture and misinterprets a glove cuff as vambraces. The next historian who reads this doesn't bother to look at the sculpture himself and just repeats the dodgy claim. In a decade it becomes a "fact" that Romans wore vambraces. As I said, it happens all the time. Like Roman horse collars choking horses, and stirrups being needed for couched lance warfare, and spears being able to penetrate 3mm of bronze plate, and hoplite panoplies weighing 120 lbs, and Roman segmentata made of leather, and knights needing cranes to mount their horses.