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I got cuious & went looking in Isirore's Etymologies, as found in the
Patrologia latina database:'
CAPUT XIII. /De loricis./
1. /Lorica/ ^// vocatur, eo quod /loris/ careat, solis enim circulis
ferreis contexta est.
2. ^[h /1Kb/] /Squama/ est lorica ferrea ex laminis ferreis,
*[Col.0649C] *aut aereis concatenata in modum squamae piscis, et ex ipso
splendore squamarum, et similitudine nuncupata est. ^// De ciliciis
autem et poliuntur, et teguntur loricae.
Footnote - ///Lorica . . . quod loris careat, solis enim circulis
ferreis./ Non dubito quin Isidorus apud Servium legerit Aen. lib. X,
/loricam esse proprie tegmen de loro factum, quo majores in bello uti
consueverant./ Sed loricis posterioribus notationem aptavit, quae
conserta sunt hamis, ut ait Virgilius. Varro lib. IV: /Lorica a loris,
quod de corio crudo pectoralia faciebant: postea succuderunt Galli e
ferro sub id vocabulum //0650D//ex annulis ferream tunicam.
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Tom Izbicki/
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Henk 't Jong wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
> Hi John,
>
>
>
> You wrote:
>
> >I don't think that they were wearing much plate armour in the
> thirteenth century.
>
>
>
> There is some evidence of the wearing of 'plates' of metal under the
> jupon (the loose cloth overtunic, usually sleeveless) and over the
> mail during the 13th c. Also knee- and elbowprotectors are seen in
> some later 13th c miniatures. These also could have been made of
> leather, boiled or waxed, but they look the same as those in the early
> 14th c, and these have been found to be made of metal.
>
>
>
> > In ancient Latin a _lorica_ is a cuirass, not always made of metal.
> In the central Middle Ages the term ordinarily denotes a garment of
> mail and is usually translated (except when Biblical reminiscence
> supervenes) as "mail shirt". The latter, like a nightshirt, could
> descend well below the waist. When it does it is now often called a
> "mail suit".
>
>
>
> Well, not exactly. Modern armorists call a complete set of mail
> (shirt, coif, gloves and leggings) a suit of mail. That does not mean
> that contemporaries called them thus. It also depends on of which
> period we are speaking about.
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>
>
> I don't know whether Fonte Avellana keeps a garment designated as the
> _lorica_ of the eleventh-century San Domenico Loricato but a mail suit
> said to be the _lorica_ of Bl. Lorenzo Loricato (d. 1243) used to be
> on display at the Sacro Speco at Subiaco and perhaps still is.
> There's a photograph of it in the _Bibliotheca Sanctorum_, vol. 8,
> cols. 139-40.
>
>
>
> A mail shirt worn on the skin is certainly not very pleasurable.
> Especially if you are of a hairy disposition. Also every part that is
> sat upon or is put pressure on by any limb presses the rings into your
> skin. This soon becomes painful. That's why professional soldiers and
> other frequent wearers of mail, wore a padded garment under it called
> a gambeson or an aketon. Mail worn without that is definetely a way of
> self-mortification.
>
>
>
> Henk
>
>
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