Or why they take helmets off when helmets are so much cooler than peoples face

​@@Lilrob06I think it's because of the actors. Like directors wouldn't pay so much for high end actors of most of the time the audience couldn't see the actors face. Sad tho because armour is just so cool

​​@@Lilrob06Pretty simple, Removing a face from an actor by making him wear a helmet in battle takes away protagonism. It would be more realistic if they kept their helmet on but it would also be less iconic... After all the point of Fantasy its that its fiction.

@@whatsup4885 well yea fantasy is different but a Film perceived to be historical? Much different.

Dufferent times, different styles, many people don't like the small waist now but then it was a manly trait.

Some german firemen still have helmets in this shape, but today made of modern plastic.

We must watch very different sides of youtube because to me 14 minutes is a pretty short video!

Where does the idea that it _should_ be short come from?

@@Likexner Nowhere! I could listen to Matt for hours on end. It’s just always funny to me when he talks about making a “short point” at the beginning of the video, and you already know from the running time that he’s going to go into a lot more detail than he originally intended.

@@KorKhan89 I understand you were reacting to him saying it would be a short video. Im asking because this is not an isolated incident. I remember many times when Matt seemed to feel compelled to make it short. Maybe its his own idea but the way he promises he will be brief makes it look like he is under pressure from someone else constantly telling him his videos are too long.

It is all relative of course but whenever he says that I always glance at the video run time too haha.

I would content that that is a circular argument. The projection that he intended a pun with the word salad begins with the assumption with the pronunciation. This assumption is itself contentious since at that point in time the word salad did not refer to a dish. It retained the definition from the original French as meaning varieties of edible lettuce.

@@andrewjohnson6716 All I can reply to your objection is that you read the entirety of the speech in context and decide what you think it means. My interpretation is not just mine but a general scholarly interpretation. That doesn't mean it must be correct; we can't ask Shakespeare. But it's not spurious either. In context the character is on the run from the authorities and he is starving. He hides out in a garden and, sardonically, proposes that his only options are to eat his 'sallet' (his helmet) or to 'pick a sallet' (ie collect the produce of the garden as a (modern English word) salad). Clearly the humour derives from the the confuting of 'sallet' (helmet) with 'sallet' (food dish). Bear in mind when you talk about pronounciation that in the 16th century there was ONLY pronounciation as there was no standardized spelling. This means puns were particularly piquant. For example, the words 'heart' and 'hart' to us are 2 completely different words with distinct meanings that just happen to sound the same phonetically. To Shakespeare, it is the same word but with 2 different meanings, giving it powerful, potentially even deep potentiality. Here he is doing the same with 'sallet', for comic effect but also with deeper meaning: his helmet, once a signifier of his might is now useful for nothing other than drinking out of or (sardonically) eating. But unless the word 'sallet' has a secondary food meaning that idea, that wordplay doesn't work. And shakespeare makes sure it does work by using the word a few lines before in its normal context: "picking a sallet". You give a very specific definition of 'salad' and I would say you should be wary of that because not only was there no standardized spelling at the time but no comprehensive or definitive dictionaries, meaning that defining the meaning of a word is as nebulous as spelling it. I don't know what your source is but it is most likely derived from sort of dictionary or encylopedia from the era and that in itself is not reliable as any indicator of general usage because usually it was a definition coined by a sole author without reference to any wider consensus. It was simply enshrining what HE meant by a word, not what any other given person might mean it to refer to. For example, most of Dr Johnson's definitions in his famous dictionary are subjective and sometimes plain erroneous. To use modern vernacular: he pulled a lot of it out of his arse. Some scholar may have given the definition you gave but who knows what the average farm labourer or town citizen might understand this fancy French derived word to mean. I think it rather more likely that Shakespeare, a popular actor and playwright, was probably a little more in touch with common usage. I think if you read the passage for yourself you will agree there is very little possibility of any other meaning :)

@@Chinaboatman so that's how enlightened people talk to each other... interesting

In French it was still is called a salade by the way. In Italian it's called a celata. That's why I find it very hard to believe the English would just drop the t. It certainly can't have been inspired by French as some people assume.

@@andrewjohnson6716 Italian celata, french salads, English salley? No way

Pursuing the Knightly Arts has a couple of videos on it. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rpqVodmKsqi7pY0.html Here my favorite, it's about Ringen, armored wrestling.

This almost reads like something sexual "I'd love to see you wearing [insert thing], actually it's the only thing I want to see, I can't stop imagining it since I saw you wearing [thing]" without you even trying. Had you used foresight and gone full-blown sexual innuendo Matt would be making that video right now just to use the jokes!

@@Adam_okaay I was reading your comment just as Matt was saying "aahhhh, where's the hole.. I can feel it with my finger..."

The blueing on the sabatons seems to have been done differently, if the color is any indication :)

@@BanjoJapeth , I was like "wait, I didn't think I saw any sabatons", then I was like "ohh... I see what you did there!"😀😂

This late Medieval (late 15 century) Western European armor is the most protective armor in world history!

@@jus_sanguinis Dude, Google what a "tank" is. You're gonna freak out

@@Bear_Feces I mean body armor during late Medieval time and before it.

And why could no one work out Batman's everyday identity, when Bruce Wayne only had a suntan on the bottom half of his face?

@@mikefule330 he probably didn't get a super intense tan line running around at night

I cannot post links. But in two of the flemish Caesar Tapestries (if I recall correctly they were the Crossing of Rubicon and the Battle of Pharsalus) these forms can be seen. Both date to the 1460s. For an earlier example there's a painted window in the chapel at Windsor Castle, dated around 1435 also depicting one of these sallets. Lastly they can also be seen in the french manuscripts _Gouiron le Courtois_ (BNF Francais 356, ca 1440) and _Le Livre et le vraye hystoire du bon roy Alixandre_ (BL Royal 20 B XX)

"Would that protect the Spanish, 🇪🇸 conquistadors head from the clay balls⚽ made of stone 🪨 and obsidian rock 🪨 thrown from a string made sling used by the Aztec jaguar 🐆 and eagle 🦅 warriors of primitive stone 🪨 age Mexico?"🇲🇽

Or a Soundgarden tabard.

Styled after Date Masamunes own armor.

The skull was indeed metal but Robocop's face was 100% Murphy's face which was preserved and, together with portions of his cerebrum and cerebellum, applied to a cybernetic body. The scar from the gunshot wound Murphy sustained can be seen when RoboCop has his visor off, further suggesting his face is not a replica, but in fact his original organic one.

Robocop sometimes held up a hand to protect his face, particularly after he started to become aware that he was Murphy inside there.

Matt it would be cool to see a comparison of the sallet to the Helmet Model 5 and M1917 and M1 helmets used in WW1 and the outer shell and inner helmet compared and contrasted!

He also could have just not known what he was talking about

Imagine more that Shakespeare just isn't very informed on military stuff. Take this from a Shakespeare nut.

There is also a line in Henry IV part 2 about the character seeing Hal “with his bevor on”. As the armorer on one production I had to explain that reference to the cast and crew. I felt quite proud of myself for securing a bevoured suit of armor that fit the actor playing Hal.

Bill Shakespeare never wore armour nor knew it’s name, think of him like a Gilbert and Sullivan style deal; pop trash for the masses with absolutely zero research into the topic they write about.

@@guypierson5754 Harsh, but fair.

Surprisingly similar.

You know the Video of Ian McCollum ( Forgotten Weapons), where he wears M16 and Sappenpanzer?

All of the awesome!

The German Stahlhelm was based off this

"Would that protect the soldiers wearing the Sallet and Bevor, from Russian 🇷🇺 built AK-47 assault rifle bullets?"

"Is it bulletproof?"

"Would the Bevor and Sallet helmet ⛑ protect the Spanish, 🇪🇸 conquistadors from the stone 🪨 age primitive poison ☠ tipped obsidian rock darts 🎯 thrown from an atlatl, or poison ☠ tipped wooden feathery end 🔚 darts 🎯 blown 🌬 from a blow 🌬 gun, 🔫 or poison ☠ tipped obsidian rock 🪨 arrows ➡ fired🔥 from the primitive longbow 🏹 and arrow, ➡ or clay balls ⚽ made of stone 🪨 and obsidian rock 🪨 thrown from a string made sling used by the primitive stone 🪨 age Aztec jaguar 🐆 and eagle 🦅 warriors of Tenochtitlan Mexico?" 🇲🇽

Yes, exactly that.

@@scholagladiatoria So if ever some kids refuse to tie a napkin around their neck before eating, we can tell them that it a cool item related to knights.

@@adwarfsittingonagiantsshoulder clever lol

I don't think it's that easy to cut a leather strap resting against armor. Italians had their breastplates attached with a leather strap at the front and never felt the need to attach it another way, so it seems it wasn't much of a problem

I think you underestimate how hard it is to cut leather. Also, a lot of plate harnesses are basically covered with leather straps, my cuirass has like 14 of them, and all on the outside, so it wasn't that big of a deal.

@@AlricOfRahls possibly but it is still a risk to have one thin strap opposed to 14, presumably thicker straps. Im just speculating at the end of the day

@@romainburgy908 true though i am just speculating. I mean if the strap Matt used is the average, that is a pretty thin bit of leather. Maybe i am over thinking it because it would be a hard place to hit and possibly irrelevant as you'd get your head shaken about like a good un regardless. Im just coming up with a possibility as to why it was not done as often as strap under the bevor

@@BH-rx3ue Yeah, there's always a chance of it getting cut but it's quite unlikely I think (btw it would be nice to see Matt test how hard or how easy it is to cut leather that's resting against plate armor). And let's not forget it's possible it was done this way just as much but doesn't appear as often in art of the period because maybe the artists didn't always bother including all the fine details of armor like straps etc.

The sallet reminds me a little of Corinthian style helmets - the Greeks must've relied on their beards to protect their lower face. Or something.

Necroing, but I practice HEMA and have spoken to some more advanced people in my club who do harness fencing ie armored HEMA. Yes that can happen especially with swords, its actually why the sallet is not as popular among HEMA practitioners (or other armored combatants) as earlier bascinets which have more solid face protection. But there are ways around this in a modern sport context, people install perf plate to fill the gap between the visor and bevor that is there even if the visor is down, and that suffices to stop unlucky thrusts. It also isnt very conspicuous with the visor down.

Me too. I was literally just thinking that when he said it 🙂

Lloyds harness is not too historical. He did not trust in the english effigies and instead went for something which wouldn't be found in England, paired with a helmet which does not fit the rest of the armour.

You try to look interested when you have to hold that pose for days on end whilst they sew the tapestry. ;)