12-15-2008, 10:24 PM
Byzantine successors, the Janissaries, had iron mini-horseshoes on heels and iron toes. There is one cute story that the track a division of Janissaries left looked like a heard of tiny ponies had passed moving the other direction.
These were primarily for durability, but part of durability is not admiting an iron stake through the sole.
-Rick
These were primarily for durability, but part of durability is not admiting an iron stake through the sole.
-Rick
Quote:Gothic Clibanarius:sep3h2sg Wrote:So were the 'steel shoes' a.k.a sabatons solid or segmented?
As it is impossible to walk in solid metal shoes they must have been articulated in some manner; they are not described in any detail and no pictorial evidence exists.
Rick Orli
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