"Hi, guys, welcome back." he says as if he hasn't been gone for two years.

@TheSeanoops

4 жыл бұрын

J. Casey lol ikr.

@gn019202492000

4 жыл бұрын

You are so right about it lol!

@rubenrodriguezgarcia6514

4 жыл бұрын

LOL

@Wirt99

4 жыл бұрын

Too true

@MrWeAllAreOne

4 жыл бұрын

He last posted 1 year ago!

FINALLY. He‘s back.

@madcatmk213

3 ай бұрын

and........ he's gone.

That helmet is surprisingly more mobile that I would have guessed.

@mccallcarlson3580

4 жыл бұрын

*sees helmet in museum* "wow that looks impractical" *sees helmet on Ian* "Wow that looks practical"

Sir Ian, gone off to a far away land in search for the holy grail and returned with a video! Great having you back.

@rubenrodriguezgarcia6514

4 жыл бұрын

And a new mic it seems

@Bassalicious

4 жыл бұрын

And what a treat this one is!

@nikobelik224

4 жыл бұрын

seems like he has found the gail hasn't he

@litecashAngel

4 жыл бұрын

I have the holy grail. I gonna sell it for bitcoins, for those who are interested.

@neutralobserver3423

4 жыл бұрын

@@litecashAngel I'm not very keen. I've already got one , you see. Oh yes, it's very nice!

I've never been a fan of great bassinets, they've always looked unattractive to me whenever I see one in a museum but seeing it on you with armour really changed my perspective. It looks great when used along the rest of the armour and seems much more practical then I initially imagined just seeing them isolated.

@luc410

3 жыл бұрын

i thought the same thing

Nicely done, Ian! You have gathered together and presented the information in a very orderly way. Compared to what you have done, building the helmet was easy. Mac

@zainy_inc154

4 жыл бұрын

LOVE YOUR WORK MAN, your a legend man!

@guypierson5754

3 жыл бұрын

You lie as well as you make armour.

@cyrilgigee4630

3 жыл бұрын

The sheer humility threatens to blast my soul right out of my body.

@johnharding4181

2 жыл бұрын

Robert you legend i love your armour peices

I'm in the hospital with massive infection and pneumonia. Seeing this vid go up totally made my day. 😊👍

@ameritus9041

4 жыл бұрын

Dang, sorry to hear that. Hopefully you recover soon.

@Immopimmo

4 жыл бұрын

@@ameritus9041 Thanks mate, getting great care here at the hospital. 🙂👍

@bambam144

4 жыл бұрын

sry to hear that get well soon :)

@karolcebulski4472

4 жыл бұрын

@@bambam144 God speed, get well soon.

@jackjohnson6884

4 жыл бұрын

Get well soon

The KNIGHT is BACK, Ladies and Gentlemen!😁❤

@toompyfloyd4074

4 жыл бұрын

* lords and ladies

@jorgeguanche5327

4 жыл бұрын

Boys and girls.....or frenchies!!...😁

@jorgeguanche5327

4 жыл бұрын

@Sam Bowling Alley yep...

"As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted" I'm glad you are back making videos. Thank you.

*HE'S BACK*

@chickensandwich1589

4 жыл бұрын

XpulOOOsion!

Wow. What a piece. I can really imagine this being the equivalent to a modern tank on the battlefields. A high ranking, experienced fighter on a armored horse with a sharp, case hardened steel tip lance couched and this thing on his head. It must have truly been terrifying to encounter a combo like that as an enemy with no other obvious counter possibility than a direct hit with a canon ball. Imagine being some stable boy who's on the battlefield for the first time and seeing this thing used in anger. It must have looked like some alien overlord against the old bascinets and armor styles. Also can I just say that the way this piece of solid and continuous metal drapes over the anatomy like silk and to remember it was hand beaten by a master smith and his artisans with every strike carefully placed to ensure maximum safekeeping of its wearer when other extremely skilled men try their absolute hardest to ram a hardened metal spike into their faces from a galloping horse just blows my freaking mind.

@aleksanderlenartowicz5659

4 жыл бұрын

Being a stable boy on the battlefield seeing men-at-arms waging war in plate armour would be a lifetime experience. Like the last of a lifetime.

@Ryan_Winter

2 жыл бұрын

I'm not a historian, but the context the video provides suggests to me that the Duke of Venice wore this helmet. That's important, because if my assumption is correct, the man who wore this armour was not the Dauphin of France or the Prince of Wales. This man didn't see himself in the chivalric tradition of Richard I. or Charlemagne, he saw himself as a successor of Julius Caesar and Marcus Aurelius. Hence, he saw it has his duty to be on the battlefield with his men, but he would have left the fighting to the men under his command. He probably even delegated the tactical leadership to someone else and acted as a figurehead and rallying point.

Remember that time Attila the Hun traveled 1000 years into the future to have a kickass suit of plate armor built?

I think you were probably away on a "Knyghtly Errant" : )

@sirapple2406

4 жыл бұрын

btw I also think that the asymmetrical throat plate was on purpose because it really stands out like a sore thumb when worn.

@Matt_The_Hugenot

4 жыл бұрын

Groan

@alecblunden8615

4 жыл бұрын

"Errant" is not a peculiar spelling of errand. It means "travelling".

@cyrilgigee4630

3 жыл бұрын

69th like.

We missed you.

"Hi guys welcome back." No YOU welcome back :D

Amazing video. I watch Skall, Matt Easton, The Metatron, Tod of Tod's workshop, Lindybeige, and others and this is in a class by itself. Obviously, a lot of work went into it. You couldn't do this every week. But I am really impressed by the dedication to getting this right and obvious but understated enthusiasm for the subject matter, which is, needless to say, infectious. And also pointing towards the larger community of people who help make this happen. Thank you for doing this.

My fastest click of all time, I'm so happy you uploaded!

@MikeKnell2884

4 жыл бұрын

Me too. @ducks behind table@

@JustGrowingUp84

4 жыл бұрын

# Fastest Click In The West

@jackjohnson6884

4 жыл бұрын

Same here haha

Your average video quality was already really high, but I think this is by far your best video. A perfect combination of the scholarly and practical aspects of reconstruction and a great way of presenting the topic. The wait really was worth it.

@00Trademark00

4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely. Ian doesn't post very often, but the quality of his videos and the level of depth and detail is outstanding, far above almost everything else on KZread. Keep up the good work, Ian!

This video has made me rethink everything I thought about lateral head movement in great bascinets.

I wouldn‘t have thought to see any more of you, but I‘m glad to do so! You got me interested in armour in the first place, now I‘m a loving collector! Thank you so much!

The dark night has gone, the knyght is bacc!

I am very pleased to see this and I clicked on it within a microsecond of seeing it.

the Legend is Alive!

Very well written and executed. This lecture would be appropriate at any university.

Jesus Christ be praised, Ian has come to see us!

@Frostblast7

4 жыл бұрын

I really feel quite hungry.

@SharkWrestler

4 жыл бұрын

@@Frostblast7 I feel quite hungray

@rafe5556

4 жыл бұрын

@@SharkWrestler I wonder what Theresa is up to

@Elbowbanditest2003

3 жыл бұрын

@@SharkWrestler hungreh*

Talk about hitting the ground running. Great video. Welcome back.

I was lucky enough to attend the forging this year and try it on - it's surprisingly comfortable. A little big for me (5'9" 170lbs, slight build) but fit a ton of folks really well. Great vid, Ian, and good to have you back!

OMG you're back!

That reproduction is gorgeous and makes its wearer look invulnerable. Imagine if you had to swing a weapon at it, there's nowhere to get purchase.

It's so great to finally see you back, and with what a video! Thank you for taking us on this journey of some incredible historical research, and a special thanks to Mac and Dr Baptiste (hope I spelt that right.) I never knew there were questions as to the validity of this bascinet. To me, like all Medieval extants, it's simply too perfectly imperfect to be a reproduction. The research that you guys are putting into it is amazing, without a shadow of a doubt.

The return of armour Jesus

Before watching: "Well, this doesn't look like the most interesting topic, but it's the first video in a while, so I'll watch. After video: "Holy hell that was unbelievably fascinating. Best helmet evah."

The legend returns!

This video was WAAAY more interesting than I expected. Granted, I had relatively low expectations (though, it being a Knyght Errant video, I still had some expectations, of course), but still. Quite fascinating :)

Welcome back Ian. I was just rewatching your helmet series about a month ago, and truly missing your great content. So good to have you back.

This is some incredible research!

Swear to God u have a speaking phd, ur videos come out so smooth love it, keep up the good work

Welcome back.

Welcome back Ian

Welcome back yourself Ian. Since the helmet lack provenance, I'm going to assign it to Sir John Hawkwood. In my mind he is the most interesting military figure of 14th century Italy - a mercenary who fought for a dizzying array of employers for almost 40 years, including multiple popes, dukes, barons, city states, etc. His funerary monument can still be seen in the Duomo di Firenze (Florence Cathedral).

he's back!

This is such a fantastic presentation that brings me back at least every couple of months.

Hell yeah! He's back!

Fascinating, far more mobile than expected, functional and impressive protection - deflective shape. It is like looking at the 14th century version of a T-34s sloped armor.

Extremely impressive reproduction and talk, so many thanks to all involved. When the internet is good, it's brilliant. :-) As a keen student of history, I've learned a lot just recently from work like this, such as the name stop rib (and how vital it was against pointed weapons and, amazingly, broken arrow shaft splinters - see the recent Tod's Workshop video on long bows at Agincourt). As for the battlefield usefulness of this helmet design, well I don't have the experience to say (my expertise is in ancient history) but for sure you would have severely degraded hearing in one and likely unresponsive to commands and fluid response on the field. But if you are an elite in a melee, well, they probably weren't that good at taking orders anyway. ;-)

*Relevant and Supportive Comment*

Holy crap the legend returns! You have no idea how much I missed your videos. Welcome back!

He said: "see you all in the next one" at the end. That means there will be more

Great to see u back 👍

Welcome Back, Armour Jesus!

@MikeMallinson

4 жыл бұрын

@@OrileyOwnage no question, Matt Easton

@VosperCDN

4 жыл бұрын

@@MikeMallinson Well, I would agree with that, but only in the right context ...

@Gjoufi

4 жыл бұрын

@@VosperCDN I actually laughed :D

@jarlgawain8876

4 жыл бұрын

@@OrileyOwnage Matt Easton is hereby dubbed Ian Easton: sword Jesus

Fantastic to see you back!

It's so good to have you back!

Yessss glad you're finally back!

Good to see you back, thanks for the video.

Glad to see you back!

I saw this in my recommendations. Now I've gone through most of the helmets playlist and bunch of other old videos. So glad I found your channel and that you're making videos again!

So good to see you back! Amazing video

Great video! Glad to see you back!

You are back!!!!Thank you. thank you!

So happy your doing vids again!

Really happy to see you back

Glad to have you back

thank you so much for the subtitles!

Really nice to have you back

Thank you. Thank you for coming back.

You still got it brother, thanks for the great work!

Great to have you back, brilliant video as always.

You've returned! So glad that you're making videos again :)

This is amazing. Please more of this, I am enthralled.

An excellent presentation in both video and script. This is well worth the wait. Two thumbs up!

This might be one of your best, or at least one of my favorite videos you've done so far. What a beautiful and interesting helmet

Great content, glad to see a new upload. Amazing how the form factor all made sense when you matched it with your armor. Thank you for letting us have a look at the recreation and all the informed influences.

Finally a new video 😀😀

Glad to see you're ok. Thank you so much for posting a new video, it made my day. Very informative and high quality. Looking forward to more! Keep it up Ian!

Good to see a new video from you. Welcome back!

Really glad to see a new video from you! It's so well done, both you video are research and the helmet itself.

Welcome back Sir! Thank you for bringing us another brilliant video

Nice to see you back! Nice video and amazig project!

Great job as always, Ian!

Great to see you back and making a video, hopefully you will start making videos regularly again.

So happy to see this vid in my subs . Glad your back!

I am so giddy! Can barely contain myself. This has always been one of my favorite helmets. I followed the production as close as I could and have been waiting for a presentation such as this. Many thanks. Such a beauty...

Awesome video. Great content. Thank you for sharing!

Happy to see you back good sir. I am overjoyed with your return and the well informed videos you produce

Well done! Excellent video, Ian

The hero has returned! Glad you're back! :)

Great video! I expecially liked how you talked about the process of analyzing and researching: talking about this stuff always gives to me new ways of looking at source materials

Nice to see you back ! 🙂 One of my favorite tubers ever.

Ah ah ah! At last a new video! It was well worth the wait! Many thanks for your awesome content, always a pleasure to watch and rewatch, and so informative... it's a real pleasure to learn from such high quality content. Then again thank you very much for the awesome works you've done all those years!

This video is amazing. So many details. So many assumptions. And so much work behind the scene.

Simply one of the best medieval armor channels with deep understanding of the subject.

Great to see you back man!

Absolutely fascinating video about helmet that each one of us encountered at least once and raised many questions and many brows. Thank you Ian, for providing us such a detailed video with such a huge amount of information and backview on crafting process.

This is a great piece of research. Thank you!

Your last couple videos especially this one have been very efficient & informative. Top notch content. Very fascinating topic presented in a way easily understood & well thought out. Thank you for your gift of information & knowledge.

Amazingly interesting video. Good to see you again Ian.

Awesome research, thanks Ian and Mac !!

That bascinet looks pretty great. It’s nice to have you back Ian, I hope all is well with you and yours 😄

Historical research like this makes my blood pumping! Thanks for sharing!

Wow I was genuinely worried that this channel was dead. Glad to see a new video!