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
Jupon has at least two other spellings: gipon and (annoyingly, since I almost missed it in an index) gypon. It was a short padded and quilted garment worn over a suit of armour. The padding was usu…| A Writer's Perspective