{"id":31279,"date":"2015-05-09T02:00:05","date_gmt":"2015-05-09T06:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=31279"},"modified":"2020-07-04T09:50:34","modified_gmt":"2020-07-04T13:50:34","slug":"fighting-in-15th-century-plate-armour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/05\/09\/fighting-in-15th-century-plate-armour\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting in 15th century plate armour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By way of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2015\/05\/whats-it-like-to-fight-in-15th-century-armor.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Open Culture<\/em><\/a>, here&#8217;s a brief video of what you could do while wearing full plate armour of the mid- to late-fifteenth century:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5hlIUrd7d1Q\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Above, <em>Le Mus\u00e9e National du Moyen-\u00c2ge<\/em> (otherwise known as The National Museum of the Middle Ages) and The University of Geneva recreate fight scenes from the 15th century, demonstrating the movements and techniques of combatants who clanked around in full suits of armor. If you\u2019re like me, you\u2019re watching with surprise \u2014 surprised by their agility and dexterity. Wasn\u2019t quite expecting that!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By way of Open Culture, here&#8217;s a brief video of what you could do while wearing full plate armour of the mid- to late-fifteenth century: Above, Le Mus\u00e9e National du Moyen-\u00c2ge (otherwise known as The National Museum of the Middle Ages) and The University of Geneva recreate fight scenes from the 15th century, demonstrating the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,7,663],"tags":[1379,498],"class_list":["post-31279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-history","category-weapons","tag-armour","tag-martialarts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-88v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31279"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58371,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31279\/revisions\/58371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}