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Rodrigo Diaz posted:Lmao. So his point that the Normans are not French is an extremely silly one. They spoke a lang d'oil and were more or less mutually intelligible with men from the Ile de France. Moreover, they owed fealty to the king of France and had culturally become essentially Frankish (I actually prefer this term to French tbh). Oh yeah I remembered regarding this whole thing: it's clear that, by the late 1130s at the latest, the Normans were considered French, for Geoffrey Gaimar writes of William Rufus in his Estoire des Engleis quote:Par tute France les barons, / Le dutouent cum uns leons. / Treska Peiters ne remist ber / Kil ne feist vers sei cliner. Rodrigo Diaz fucked around with this message at 19:05 on Oct 23, 2016 |
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Bendigeidfran posted:To key off the discussion of absolutist monarchies earlier, I had some questions about proto-democratic government institutions. So Folkmoots, Althings, and the like, assemblies where laws and leaders are voted upon by a large proportion of society. What I've read about the subject suggests that they're relics of "tribal" government, from a stage where local leaders hadn't consolidated the resources needed for a powerful aristocracy or monarchy. In that situation it makes sense that ordinary citizens could exercise greater political authority. Then as we move further from Late Antiquity, military pressures from larger societies encourages power to concentrate, and these institutions begins to disappear. I'd think that the biggest thing to wrap one's head around is that practically everywhere before the 19th century, rulers were reliant on the people governing themselves beyond anything else. Also, formal rules didn't mean much in many cases, for instance women might not officially be allowed to get involved, but if the woman happens to be someone of note in, say, early medieval Scandinavian society, she might get involved despite not being able to do so in a formal sense. Only a modern society is truly capable of excluding an entire gender from positions of power. One of the major elements you'd see is courts in many cultures, where you see local peasants run official trials and settle disputes and so on. The whole "jury of one's peers" comes from this in Common Law. In an european context, this is a Germanic cultural thing. The same kind of thing still exists in Somalia, where clan law and clan courts are more important than the non-existent Mogadishu government. Which leads to fun situations such as getting owned in business deals because you don't have a sponsor from a clan who will represent you if necessary.
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Rodrigo Diaz posted:Oh yeah I remembered regarding this whole thing: it's clear that, by the late 1130s at the latest, the Normans were considered French, for Geoffrey Gaimar writes of William Rufus in his Estoire des Engleis Mind translating for those of us who have t used their awful grad school French in years?
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Cyrano4747 posted:Mind translating for those of us who have t used their awful grad school French in years?
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Cyrano4747 posted:Mind translating for those of us who have t used their awful grad school French in years? That's 12th century Norman French, so I'm not sure how useful it would be. Anyway the important part is the first sentence, which is something like "throughout all France the barons feared him as a lion", referring both to his war for the Duchy of Normandy as well as his partial conquest of Maine and wars in the Vexin. The second part refers to his plans to purchase Poitou iirc. Peiters is Poitiers. Sorry but I only kept the Norman French version because I didn't use that passage in my dissertation.
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Here's some guys shooting a Setzschild with a crossbow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2Rl9DLUfao
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Cyrano4747 posted:"Medieval Europe" is also a huge span of time and territory with huge variations as well. And, of course, lots of mediaeval Jews didn't live in Europe. Being Jewish in the Arab world (to include North Africa and for quite a large chunk of time Spain) was generally speaking nbd.
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JaucheCharly posted:Here's some guys shooting a Setzschild with a crossbow. cool
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JaucheCharly posted:Here's some guys shooting a Setzschild with a crossbow. Zugkraft: 5325 N - I take it that's the draw-weight of the crossbow/arbalest? Because that is a solid 1,200 pounds of force equivalent, drat. Respect the pavise.
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Yes. I mean I don't know archery words in German so Jauche can yell at me but that's basically "pull strength" so I'm willing to bet it's right.
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HEY GAL posted:where and when? Whoops, sorry. I was mostly thinking of around the Norman conquest around 1066. In and around England and the Isles. I tried to dig through my local library, but I don't even know what I am looking for (though I did find interesting speculations about ancient Ireland).
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Stopped by the Springfield Armory, they had these guys on display:  
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SimonCat posted:Stopped by the Springfield Armory, they had these guys on display: Holy High-Resolution Images, Batman! Those are some fine-looking weapons, but could you timg the pictures or something?
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SimonCat posted:I thought that happened automatically now? It doesn't, you still need to add the [timg] tags instead of [img].
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SimonCat posted:I thought that happened automatically now? on my desktop firefox it's automatic but when i use my phone the pics look massive
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It's automatic when you quote them, but not when you post them.
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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Is that a really short halberd or is the display case just bigger than my brain seems to think it is?
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why is the gun's stock so long? for balance?
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Hogge Wild posted:why is the gun's stock so long? for balance?
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HEY GAL posted:If you're standing in a field, what you do is drive the end of that stake into the ground and hold the entire gun+"stock" next to you at about a 45 degree angle. The gun part should be about chest level or a little lower. This is literally a hand-transported cannon, you don't fire it from the shoulder. ah, ok i was thinking of holding it like a panzerfaust:  any idea of the range?
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How exactly are the Crusades seen differently by scholars as opposed to popular opinion?
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Hogge Wild posted:ah, ok  quote:any idea of the range?
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RabidWeasel posted:Is that a really short halberd or is the display case just bigger than my brain seems to think it is? It does look that way. I think it might just be a perspective issue (the halberd's further away than the hand-cannon and the shaft is also angled away), combined with halberds not being that long. Like maybe 5-and-half->6ft.
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Hogge Wild posted:ah, ok You could also brace it against a tree. I've seen one hand cannon that even has a vertical spike in the stock to let it be jammed into whatever soft support you've got available.
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chitoryu12 posted:You could also brace it against a tree. I've seen one hand cannon that even has a vertical spike in the stock to let it be jammed into whatever soft support you've got available. isn't that called an arquebus? also, lol: 
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Throughout history, soldiers have always spent their money on stupid poo poo.
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Hogge Wild posted:isn't that called an arquebus? ...
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sword gun swordgun
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Hogge Wild posted:isn't that called an arquebus? Early forms of the arquebus are similar to those guns. Later forms look like heavier muskets.
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HEY GAL posted:sword ... gunsword ... gun sword ... GunXSword ...  The past is anime
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It doesn't have a trigger????
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Xiahou Dun posted:It doesn't have a trigger???? sssssshuddup
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Once you score a 5 hit combo with the blade, the gun illuminates and you point it at the enemies, it will fire automatically
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Xiahou Dun posted:It doesn't have a trigger???? More importantly, it looks like a Luger, but it's missing the entire bolt. Gotta love that ultra-useless sight.
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SlothfulCobra posted:More importantly, it looks like a Luger, but it's missing the entire bolt. It's a Japanese Nambu:  This is a Luger:  e: when i put nambu katana on google i found this from some blog with the pic: Japanese Nambu Katana (Only one such gun+katana example exists after it was found by US troops. The book stated that it was probably made for an old-school Japanese Imperial Officer who wanted to combine both the old and new ways of warfare. Problem is the balance for firing the pistol (which I don’t know how it’s operated since I see no trigger) and swinging the sword are all thrown off. Other examples with smaller daggers exist.) i sent pm to the goon who posted it in yospos Hogge Wild fucked around with this message at 18:52 on Oct 29, 2016 |
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The entire bolt is still missing.  I'm betting someone just dropped a sword down the grip and called it a day.poo poo, you can even screw off the entire trigger guard, you don't even need a hacksaw to do this.
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