bookandswordblogIn 2021 I wrote a magazine article on how a translated French summary of a medieval Roman chronicle gave English-speaking classicists misconceptions about linen armour https://www.ancientworldmagazine.com/articles/glued-linen-armour/ #materialCulture #antiquidons #ancMedToot #byzantine
Body-armour of glued linen? - The origin of the idea of glued linen armour
Many people believe that the ancient Greeks used, among other things, armour that was made of layers of linen cloth glued together. But there is no ancient text linking linen armour and glue. No other culture made armour this way. So where does this idea come from?