Banded mail

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Banded mail is a composite armor formed by combining the concepts behind the Roman lorica segmentata with splint mail. It may otherwise be described as an 'armor of bands'. It is sometimes described as "a form of mail reinforced with bands of leather."

The historicity of banded mail has been controversial. Although considered real during the 1800s,[1] [2] later books on history claim that banded mail arose due to a misinterpretation of medieval artistic practices.[3]

Banded mail also appears in Dungeons & Dragons. Debates about the existence of banded mail have also appeared in Dragon Magazine.[4] [5] [6]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Fairholt, Frederick William (1885). Costume in England: A History of Dress to the End of the Eighteenth Century. G. Bell and Sons, 27. 
  2. ^ Hewitt, John; Claude Blair (1860). Ancient Armour and Weapons in Europe: From the iron period of the northern nations to the end of the seventeenth century. John Henry and James Parker, 268. 
  3. ^ Blair, Claude (1959). European Armour circa IO66 to circa 1700. New York: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY, 35-36. 
  4. ^ "Forum" (July 1987). Dragon Magazine XII (123): 6–8. 
  5. ^ "Forum" (October 1987). Dragon Magazine XII (126): 56–57. 
  6. ^ "Forum" (March 1988). Dragon Magazine XII (131): 6–8. 
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