…the consensus was that a medieval knight in full plate weighed so much, he had to be lifted onto his Percheron charger with a portable hoist. The “experts” never actually conducted any experiments to prove that assertion, they just looked at all that metal and couldn’t imagine *themselves* being able to move around in it. Considering that the average suit of full plate weighs about 45 pounds, and the average academic (again, back when I was a lad) didn’t top the scales at much more than twice that, it seemed like a reasonable assumption.Reasonable, but wrong. If it were true,...
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Mar 09 2012, 11:00 PM
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