Standing armies don't emerge until incredibly late in the medieval period (and even then as a feudal army commander I want my men to look cool); for the entire time before that these guys were feudal knights, mercenaries, or militia members buying their own armor. If you're going to buy your own armor, why not splurge a little on some aesthetics that won't in any way impair your ability or protection but still make you look cool as all hell. Hope this is a proper understanding of medieval culture last time I actually researched Medieval Europe in an academic capacity I focused on the presence of martial culture in civilians (tournaments, fencing guilds, etc.) and didn't look at culture within the militaries themselves, which armor fashion would count as.
@Oswald_of_Catalina
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True, there were generally no standing armies or anything akin to them on a large scale for most of the Middle Ages. Even in cases where there were forces that sort of fit the bill of a standing army (men of fighting age being made to practice archery to be called up as archers in England, for example, and the Black Army of Hungary) they definitely didn’t wear anything uniform since they almost always had to arm themselves with their own coin, as you have stated. I guess what I was driving at is that our modern idea of cool isn’t the same as what people viewed as cool during the Renaissance, and a lot of people in the comment section of the Instagram reel I was responding to in this video seemed comically offended by that fact. I personally think it’s kind of a Chad move that the pre-modern equivalent of Navy SEALs destroyed each other in armor that would generally be aesthetically categorized as “gay” by many twenty-first century people.
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Standing armies don't emerge until incredibly late in the medieval period (and even then as a feudal army commander I want my men to look cool); for the entire time before that these guys were feudal knights, mercenaries, or militia members buying their own armor. If you're going to buy your own armor, why not splurge a little on some aesthetics that won't in any way impair your ability or protection but still make you look cool as all hell. Hope this is a proper understanding of medieval culture last time I actually researched Medieval Europe in an academic capacity I focused on the presence of martial culture in civilians (tournaments, fencing guilds, etc.) and didn't look at culture within the militaries themselves, which armor fashion would count as.
@Oswald_of_Catalina
15 күн бұрын
True, there were generally no standing armies or anything akin to them on a large scale for most of the Middle Ages. Even in cases where there were forces that sort of fit the bill of a standing army (men of fighting age being made to practice archery to be called up as archers in England, for example, and the Black Army of Hungary) they definitely didn’t wear anything uniform since they almost always had to arm themselves with their own coin, as you have stated. I guess what I was driving at is that our modern idea of cool isn’t the same as what people viewed as cool during the Renaissance, and a lot of people in the comment section of the Instagram reel I was responding to in this video seemed comically offended by that fact. I personally think it’s kind of a Chad move that the pre-modern equivalent of Navy SEALs destroyed each other in armor that would generally be aesthetically categorized as “gay” by many twenty-first century people.