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- From: c34657b@saha.hut.fi (Tuomas Viljanen)
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- Subject: Re: Primitive FireArms
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.075311.1590@nntp.hut.fi>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 07:53:11 GMT
- References: <DOCONNOR.92Dec30085832@potato.sedona.intel.com> <pa124548.579.725741149@utkvm1.utk.edu> <1992Dec30.211310.9513@pbhya.PacBell.COM>
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- In article <1992Dec30.211310.9513@pbhya.PacBell.COM> whheydt@PacBell.COM (Wilson Heydt) writes:
- >In article <pa124548.579.725741149@utkvm1.utk.edu> pa124548@utkvm1.utk.edu (T. Archer) writes:
- >>In article <DOCONNOR.92Dec30085832@potato.sedona.intel.com> doconnor@sedona.intel.com (Dennis O'Connor) writes:
- >>>Recurves are period. They were the usual bow used by the
- >>>Turks and the Mongols, as well as other peoples.
- >>
- >>Could you document that? The last time the issue was raised, one of the "
- >>purists" on this forum screamed bloody blue murder because to him, an "
- >>authenticist," a line of archers with recurves didn't "look mideveal."
- >
- >The recent--within the last year or so--Scientific American article on
- >bows dicussed this. You see... *Both* opinions are correct.
- >Composite recurve bows are period. Some of them go back to or before
- >Homeric Greece (I've seen speculation that that's the story behind
- >Ulysses' bow--it was a recurve and they'd got out of use in the area
- >and none of the suitors knew *how* to string it, rather than being too
- >stiff. That is--it was a family hierloom and Ulysses knew how to use
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- How about the Byzantine bows ? They were of composite construction, and I'd
- recall they were recurved ? This would certainly be period...
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- --++ Tuomas Viljanen ++ For a battle like Crecy, you do ++
- ++ Lahderanta 20 A 19 ++ not need a military genius like ++
- ++ SF-02720 Espoo FINLAND ++ Edward III. All you need is an ++
- ++ 358-0-592175 or c34657b@saha.hut.fi ++ idiot like Duke of Alencon. ++
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