2. Armour, from Linen to Plate
Harness: the old word for a complete armour, from the French harneis, gear. Before dawn, around 1450, a young squire arms his knight for a tournament, feet first, the way the old English treatise says it must be done, and between the buckles, three thousand years of armour... Inside: Greek marines who wore a Bronze Age armour for eleven hours, the helmet with flapping bronze wings, a chest of Roman armour left behind at Corbridge, the pig-faced bascinet, the dent that gave us the word bulletproof, a knight who climbed the underside of a ladder, warhorses the size of ponies, and Spanish…
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