[Regia-NA] Those pesky Normans

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Phrygian caps are out. No hard proof or even circumstancial other than the artistic convention mentioned by Tom.
This style of head covering had its roots in the middle east I believe.
Martin.

> 
> From: tgs@idlh.net
> Date: 2002/06/04 Tue AM 11:00:08 EST
> To: list-regia-na@lig.net
> Subject: Re: [Regia-NA] Those pesky Normans
> 
> Hi,
> I'm sure there are others with more detailed opinions
> on Normans around, but I'll share a few thoughts:
> 
> >   Would he have used a round or kite shield? and 
> Much of the pictorial evidence indicates that by the
> later 11th century most soldiers, maybe you could
> qualify it with most 'professional' soldiers were,
> using kite shields.  
> 
> > and were phrygian caps strictly Saxon or would they
> worn by Normans as well?
> A number of people who have looked into the origin of
> the phrygian cap assert that it is an artistic
> convention.  My opinion is out on that, these days. 
> There are some pictures of them, but almost always in
> military situations (that is, it doesn't seem to be
> something you wear around the house).  Also all the
> illuminations I can think of predate the battle of
> hastings by several hundred years, so I'm not sure that
> even if they had been a fashion at one time, that they
> still were by the mid-late 11th c.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Tom
> 
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