This week’s piece of armour is the aketon. It’s another padded jacket, this time worn under armour rather than on top of it. It doesn’t take much imagination to realise that a body might need to be protected from its … Continue reading →| A Writer's Perspective
I’ve written quite a bit over the last few weeks about what knights and soldiers wore over their armour and only briefly looked at what constituted that armour. We’re looking back to the thirteenth…| A Writer's Perspective