06-23-2009, 10:39 AM
I think we have to stop thinking so much about the sword but start looking at the soldiers of later period, what we begin to find is that armour begins to phase out, I know of course there is still a certain amount of mail and scale around in some situations but generally we see soldiers in long woolen tunics and helmets with a nose ridge.
Infact what we also do see is not just the beginning of the dark ages but the move towards the Medieval, for indeed what ever was Roman is not around any more only the Vatican City that sold out to anyone who wanted to stamp all over the Italian Penninsular.
The old fashioned classical shoulder to shoulder fighting had long gone and everyone wanted to keep his enemy at a distance of around one to two meters. indeed we also have to think about the economical grunch that they were going thro' where armour was not just being churned out the way it used to be.
In short it was all to do with the new fighting style that had emerged.
Infact what we also do see is not just the beginning of the dark ages but the move towards the Medieval, for indeed what ever was Roman is not around any more only the Vatican City that sold out to anyone who wanted to stamp all over the Italian Penninsular.
The old fashioned classical shoulder to shoulder fighting had long gone and everyone wanted to keep his enemy at a distance of around one to two meters. indeed we also have to think about the economical grunch that they were going thro' where armour was not just being churned out the way it used to be.
In short it was all to do with the new fighting style that had emerged.
Brian Stobbs
