Really glad to see a rolling pin in action. Truly an under-appreciated weapon in my opinion. I've heard the reason the english won at agincourt is because they fielded an insane amount of rolling pinmen, thus allowing them to beat the french with the superior range they can provide.
I have heard of and seen quite a lot of face injuries to people wearing sallets with bevors. Granted, it's a great looking helmet, but a well made bascinet with a well fitted visor is way more protective in my experience.
"Hi folks, Matt Easton here of Schola Gladiatoria. This is a mid to late fifteenth-century style sallet and this is a rolling pin. Welcome to Jackass!"
And if i am not mistaken the German ww1 helmet was at least in part inspired by the sallet.And the German ww1 helm is very similar in shape to most countries modern military helmets like the American one.So in essence the sallet shape still goes on which shows its versitility!
+Greg Makropoulos Yes, also from the Pickelhaube: www.sofmilitary.co.uk/products/Baverian-Officers-Pickelhaube-Helmet-6814-2.JPG Note the distinctive transition between the cranium and back flare and the overall shape.
That liner is so much better than the one we had on the older kevlar US military helmets, the ones we had were cord and would put a spiderweb pattern on your head after prolonged use if you had your head shaved. They were extremely uncomfortable after prolonged wear. I am glad we changed to the MICH or ACH(same thing) the padding was much better and you could wear better ear protection more comfortably just by adjusting the pads.
They did. In wwi when armies started issueing helmets the Germans based their Stahlhelm on the Sallet and the British based their brodie helmet on the Kettle Hat
0:10 The Sallet is believed to have been developed to protect brave young men from the ire of disapproving mothers who caught them sarding their daughters in the pantry. The visor could be raised to allow for better visibility when making good your escape but opening it did make you vulnerable to missile weapons, such as crockery, expletives and other such hurled verbal abuse!
Dear Matt, Please talk about the Napoleonic period headgear ie: the Shako and some cuirassier helmets. Also, the Kepi of the later time as well. Thank you!
The equation of forgoing some protection for comfort to the modern soldier really resonates with me. In Afghanistan my unit was issued what's called DAPS as well as groin kevlar. DAPS or deltoid auxillery protectors were armor for our shoulders and biceps. Essentially spaulders and rerebraces. As well as a flap of kevlar that covered our groin. In the 130 degree heat we would rather risk taking a bullet or shrapnel than to lose that mobility. Mobility is protection in the modern context, and thus we would rather be able to move quickly than to be a mobile tank of a man.
Yep! If armor makes you roughly 25% more difficult to injure, but twice as likely to get shot your net likelihood of injury is higher than if you ditch the pauldrons.
ideally you want lighter pauldrons, i believe the US army has been testing new armors to get more protection without sacrificing mobility, their aim is 60-70% of the body surface area covered with unnoticeable reduction of mobility.
I had similair experiences. In simplified terms we were issued 3 different body armors. The lightest was used only for training (and rarely at that) as it was phased out . the next (heavy) vest offered amazing protection. Really the face armpit and legs were the only weak point to anything less them heavy machine gun fire. The problem was the sucker was wildly heavy and restricted arm movement abit. The last armor( a medium weight vest) offered very good protection to the torso but left the arms and legs exposed as well as the face and armpit. When we deployed we were ordered to wear the heavy vest as standard. We sent every company nco from corporal to staff sergeant to ask the co to allow us to wear the medium vest instead. We felt mobility and stamina were more valuable then becoming human tanks.
This is a great point about armor! Bicyclists don't wear motorcycle helmets, even though both motorcyclists and bicyclists are at risk of getting hit by cars.
The best helmet is one that you have. If you can wear it and carry it easily, you are more likely to have it and it will protect you. Practicality wins out unless you have others to assist you. Thanks Matt, I really enjoy these videos. So many others miss these points of practicality and it's incredibly important.
In point to fact, the iconic german helmet of ww1 and ww2 was based largly on the sallet. Interestingly the Brody designed British helmet was based on a medieval helmet as well, namely the kettle helm or the chapel-de-fer. So the 2 great wars of the modern age essentially had two of the most famous medieval helmets facing off against eachother from acrosd the battlefield, from the trenches of ww1 to the running battles of N. Africa over half a millenia after their first use in conflicts like the 100 years war. I think that is both amazing and brilliant!
You're like the Nut'nFancy of swords. Long videos that could be shorter, but you do three times a much to be sure you absolutely cover everything. These are great for stretching, draw practice, or standing at garde positions
+RyanRyzzo IT was inspired by many things, originally he was described in writing as just a "Space Samurai" what we see on screen is a slightly different take on that, its a mix of a Stahlhelm and the Kabuto [To go with the whole space nazi thing]
Darth Vader's helmet was based on the Helmets used by the Nazis in world war 2 which were based on the design of Sallets which were the most common type of Helmet used in the Holy Roman Empire during the late Middle Ages
Inspiration for Vader's look was samurai armor. Same Japanese influence we see in Ben kenobi's Robes and Luke's outfit from the first film. But obviously you can argue Vader and stormtrooper helmets look like German 20th century helmets on steroids, and the designers were probably aware of the parallel.
The tails on the Sallet do lead to one nasty thing. The Italians called it the "Sun dial". It where you end up in rigen (grappling), and your opponent grabs the tail of the sallet and pulls your head down sharply and to the side, snapping your neck. Which is usually accompanied by a bright flash of light as you die. Thus the term sun dial. I've had this done to me while fighting in harness with Bob Charette. Quite an eye opening experience.
Slight edit Matt. I wear a motorcycle helmet all the time, and the padding serves functions of comfort & fit way more than safety 99.9% of the time. I sue my bike helm more than my combat helm but the same applies. The padding is there to make it more comfortable, allow for ventilation, and allow for it not moving about on your head and whacking you. Imagine a helm that hit you back for every step, every move of your head, every trot of your horse. It would be a nightmare. Plus horsehair padded suspension liners, and even just the caps, have been reported by users to be quite a bit more comfortable as most of the heat comes from the sun falling on your head when not in combat or other hard exertion. Same as same for my HJC CL-17 helmet. The padding & channeling are there to mimic what a horsehair suspension helm does very well which is to channel air, heat, and sweat away from the face and the user overall.
Seeing the Video pop up in my newsfeed I thought Ian finally made the video about sallets, but 18 mins would have been way too short for him :P Nicely done though, especially the intro^^
This was fascinating. I have been doing a lot of reading on the Siege of Malta. I would love to hear about Burgonet and Morion helmets. It is great hearing about helmets.
in modern jousting circles the sallet and bevors were dominant for more than 10 years (at the royal armouries, for instance) And in historical jousting it is a VERY common helmet for 75 years or more. (not all jousters were able to get specific frogmouths and jousting 'at large' is rather tricky with a frogmouth.) funnily enough... particularly popular with SHARP lances (as opposed to coronels) i jousted at the armouries for years and all over the world with sallets, and when correctly made... it is fine. I recieved hundreds upon hundreds of face hits with various lance set ups on the sallet (balsa, 'ferrule', ash solids(sections of balsa lances), pine dowel, etc) generally i expect up to 5-10% of all hits to be potentially to the head in jousting... just to be on the safe side. of foot combat in friendly context we don't always know what helmet they wore. there is artwork that shows GBs indeed, and it is likely to be the most preferred, but there is mentions of sallets there as well. some descriptions make mention only of the spike of a pollaxe being stuck in a visor... but not of what helmet, etc. also,mounted contests like these are described more commonly than foot combat. this could be because a mounted event is always more complex as an event and has a bigger chance of being recorded, and doing foot combat and mounted combat on one day is rediculoulsy stressfull, (as i have done in canada, USA, Russia, holland, australia and so forth) so they often left the foot combat out (as you can see in the deeds of jaques de lalaing, where he is doing most fights on horseback, and only a few also on foot) the style you have there is normally not fitted with such a deep visor plate, aso the neck shape is not so much a regional thing, but more a dating feature. long tailed sallets only really start developping in 1460-1470 and only become as clear and as common as we all assume in about 1480. also italian-produced sallets 'a la tedesca' were sometimes those exact same shapes... in that period original liners seem to have been padded spiders rather than leather, so you don't need a seperate padding. this makes donning it much quicker and more reliable... you just pop it on. when being hit in the head with a steel headed,original weighted pollaxe the shaft can be broken (despite langets) on your head and not bother you much. it CAN knock you down, but usually it doesn't it usually does jiggle your vision and allow for a grapple or pull on the neck. using a sharp spike on a pollaxe is a very different proposition, and that can penetrate plate potentially, but also give a very different purchase to concuss.
Is that a full poundage War Rolling Pin? Kind of invalidates the test if it's not. great video Matt. Sallets are some of the most beautiful medieval helmets. Such sleeks lines and curves.
In retrospect, nobility and other battlefield commanders were expected to have a certain quality that demanded for a helmet that left the mouth open when wanted: the voice. Namely, the great booming command voice that could carry over the general din, bad attitudes, inbreeding and occasional brain damage that was common amongst massed groups of soldiers, and to motivate them with the sufficient fright to inspire movement towards the other bunch of people with pointy stabby bits. One of my favourite examples is in Mika Waltari's - admittedly fictional - recounting of the ways of one Georg von Frundsberg, in the most stupidly name-translated book "The Adventurer". I recommend reading this book, and its sequel relating to the 16th century in the Orient, if for nothing but the many different exotic heads lopped off along its bloody-handed and meandering course throughout the old world. Frundsberg, by the way, was a commander among the few armies to ever shatter the famed swiss pikemen.
A fun fact, like you said bevor come from the French bavoir which has a different meaning today and this meaning is : the thing you put around babys' necks when they eat so they don't ruin their clothes. Think about this next time you admire a proud knight in full plate armour with a nice "bavoir" protecting him.
Unrelated to the video but would you review the fighting in the latest Macbeth? There's all sorts of interesting things there, daggers/short swords being carried on the back, dagger and longsword duel and straight-up sword fight. Just an idea.
Overall the best helm of the medieval and Renaissance period by far, aesthetically and functionally. I'm very misanthropic but I can't help but find it amazing that people with very little knowledge of physics and chemistry were able to make these things. Indeed, as you pointed out, it has basically survived into the modern era via the Stahlhelm and its successors. No other such helmet can claim that, to my knowledge.
Look at the change from early Iraq war (2003) Full Soft ballistic vest (with plates) plus upper arm and groin protectors....to now mostly just front and back plates ...... they found soldiers overheated and were to slow. Combined with the fact that the soft armor only protects against handguns which are predominantly not used on the modern battlefield (especially compared to rifles).... protection vs comfort vs mobility. (Helmets haven’t really changed much though)
I watched a Wars of Roses re-enactment about 10 years ago at Northampton and saw this happen. A pole axe's (spike end) up swept blow got between the Bevor and Sallet. The guy was fitting before he hit the floor. I do not know if he recovered.
By the way, "bavoir" means "bib", in the sense of the piece of fabric you put around a child's neck to catch drool and spilled food. Sallet helmets are also commonly referred to as "salade" in french. Literally meaning "salad bowl".
From the 1430's or so riiight the way through to the 21st Century I feel like, since a lot of modern helmets share a lot of design elements with the Sallet.
Oh my gosh! I just realized something. If someone from another youtube channel said, "Let's see what's going on scholagladiatoria," and brings up a video of him literally at 0.12 it would be best what the heck moment ever haha.
I'm kind of surprised by the lack of vent holes in the dome of the helmet. Certainly it wouldn't compromise anything to put 4-6 little holes and it makes a big difference to the heat inside.
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I think the sallet was so popular because it looks frikkin' sweet.
Word, it's so freaking badass looking!
Really glad to see a rolling pin in action. Truly an under-appreciated weapon in my opinion. I've heard the reason the english won at agincourt is because they fielded an insane amount of rolling pinmen, thus allowing them to beat the french with the superior range they can provide.
+NorwegianChris Yep, Knights of Rolling Pimen. Very dangerous, and versatile. They're equally good on the battlefield, and in the kitchen!
+NorwegianChris Pinmen, roll out!
XD
+NorwegianChris Absolutely. The ones with the longer handles and bearings are even more scary. It gives +2 reach with +3 damage but -2 defence...
+john Mullholand Whoa man, that's like asking how a pistol compares to a tank cannon. Totally different classes of weapon there.
Sallets confirmed best helmet.
+Sallet I object.
I have heard of and seen quite a lot of face injuries to people wearing sallets with bevors. Granted, it's a great looking helmet, but a well made bascinet with a well fitted visor is way more protective in my experience.
Scatlan, were they using their shield properly? This looks like it's intended for use with a shield.
+PsylomeAlpha 15th century full plate armour, and they were using longswords/polearms so no shields
+Scatlan Da_Gonozal No this is a joke made by a guy whose username is Sallet
You lost 15 years when you had the sallet on.
+Deathelement53 Due to the head blows? Come to think of it, what has happened in the last 15 years?
+Deathelement53 Why, because you can't see his face? Well, I guess all older people should go around in ski masks then.
+scholagladiatoria To be honest, I scrolled down to say the same! you do look very sharp in that thing!
+Leo Willenbergq sharp indeed
+Jane Murphy i was referring to when the visor was up
"Hi folks, Matt Easton here of Schola Gladiatoria. This is a mid to late fifteenth-century style sallet and this is a rolling pin. Welcome to Jackass!"
he really does look like robocop
+ilikewasabe Maybe Robocop looks like a late medieval man at arms.
+ilikewasabe The new one? Fuck you!
Man Crush what do you mean new one?
ilikewasabe take a guess
Man Crush oh you mean the new robocop movie? haven't seen it yet.. heard it was crap
"This is a late 15th Century sallet, this is a rolling pin, and welcome to Jackass"
And if i am not mistaken the German ww1 helmet was at least in part inspired by the sallet.And the German ww1 helm is very similar in shape to most countries modern military helmets like the American one.So in essence the sallet shape still goes on which shows its versitility!
+Greg Makropoulos
Yes, also from the Pickelhaube:
www.sofmilitary.co.uk/products/Baverian-Officers-Pickelhaube-Helmet-6814-2.JPG
Note the distinctive transition between the cranium and back flare and the overall shape.
+Exgrmbl Correct how could i forget the infamous Pickelhaube :)
Humans haven't changed shape
@@BeKindToBirds verry true
So much information so concisely and enjoyably put. I swear, if Matt were professor of history, all his students would be getting A's :)
6:00 I believe the Stahlhelm was modeled after a sallet and the Brodie helmet after a kettle hat.
That liner is so much better than the one we had on the older kevlar US military helmets, the ones we had were cord and would put a spiderweb pattern on your head after prolonged use if you had your head shaved. They were extremely uncomfortable after prolonged wear. I am glad we changed to the MICH or ACH(same thing) the padding was much better and you could wear better ear protection more comfortably just by adjusting the pads.
+zaco21 Companies often do, the basic design limitations have not changed all that much, just the weaponry they have to protect against.
They did. In wwi when armies started issueing helmets the Germans based their Stahlhelm on the Sallet and the British based their brodie helmet on the Kettle Hat
Evirthewarrior
Have you ever considered wearing full Maximillian armor?
The K-Pot webbing sucked SO BAD!
0:10 The Sallet is believed to have been developed to protect brave young men from the ire of disapproving mothers who caught them sarding their daughters in the pantry. The visor could be raised to allow for better visibility when making good your escape but opening it did make you vulnerable to missile weapons, such as crockery, expletives and other such hurled verbal abuse!
Sweet, love the sallet look, by far my favorite style of late medieval helmet.
Someone needs to make a video that's just a loop of 0:12 though to 0:19.
for 10 hours.
ruclips.net/video/F87jhNVPX3M/видео.html
@@asserius9058 that Moment, when it has more views than the original
5:55 apparently you can also headbang, in case Wacken Open Air takes place during your campaign in Germany.
there's a reason why the ww1 and ww2 german helmets and the later PASGT helmets are the shape they are.
this helmet shape is near optimal.
Maybe you could make a video showing the evolution of helmets
"Helmets work, that's the headline." I see what you did there.
0:10 ...welcome to jackass
Hi folks, Johnny Knoxville here; Schola Gladiatoria.
Sallets are my favorite medieval helm. Awesome work Matt!!
Sallet's are still my favourite helm aesthetically
Hi Matt - just wanted to let you know how enjoyable, informative and well presented I've been finding your videos. Heaps to learn!
In any kind of medieval or fantasy setting with full suits of armour, sallets are allways my favourite.
Dear Matt,
Please talk about the Napoleonic period headgear ie: the Shako and some cuirassier helmets. Also, the Kepi of the later time as well.
Thank you!
I enjoy all of your videos but this is one of my favorites!
Loved the video! I was thrilled to see this video as this is my favorite style of helmet.
That helmet makes you look quite a bit younger.
Thank you so much for mentioning battle of the nations. It peaked my curiosity and now I can't believe I didn't know about it sooner!
Really enjoy these episodes. Very well done.
The sallet is my favourite kind of helmet! Great video!
Awesome channel, very informative and very well explained! Keep up the good work!
Best introduction ever! Thank you, that made my day... And also, informative and insightful, so thanks for that as well.
The first 25 seconds is the perfect you tube short!
That was truly the best intro ive seen all week. Immediately clicked like
I love the sallet, very versatile. you've got a nice one there Matt love the visored ones
Anybody else get a Fast Show "LET'S OFFROAD!!!" vibe at the start?
Genius, Matt.
The first 20 seconds alone made the video worth watching.
Love the armor vids Matt. Keep them coming
I especially like when you add in the old artwork. That stuff is really interesting
this was very informative thanks brother you allways have sound advice and theories!
The equation of forgoing some protection for comfort to the modern soldier really resonates with me. In Afghanistan my unit was issued what's called DAPS as well as groin kevlar. DAPS or deltoid auxillery protectors were armor for our shoulders and biceps. Essentially spaulders and rerebraces. As well as a flap of kevlar that covered our groin. In the 130 degree heat we would rather risk taking a bullet or shrapnel than to lose that mobility. Mobility is protection in the modern context, and thus we would rather be able to move quickly than to be a mobile tank of a man.
Yep! If armor makes you roughly 25% more difficult to injure, but twice as likely to get shot your net likelihood of injury is higher than if you ditch the pauldrons.
ideally you want lighter pauldrons, i believe the US army has been testing new armors to get more protection without sacrificing mobility, their aim is 60-70% of the body surface area covered with unnoticeable reduction of mobility.
I had similair experiences. In simplified terms we were issued 3 different body armors. The lightest was used only for training (and rarely at that) as it was phased out . the next (heavy) vest offered amazing protection. Really the face armpit and legs were the only weak point to anything less them heavy machine gun fire. The problem was the sucker was wildly heavy and restricted arm movement abit. The last armor( a medium weight vest) offered very good protection to the torso but left the arms and legs exposed as well as the face and armpit. When we deployed we were ordered to wear the heavy vest as standard. We sent every company nco from corporal to staff sergeant to ask the co to allow us to wear the medium vest instead. We felt mobility and stamina were more valuable then becoming human tanks.
"Dear I am going into battle so I need your sallet bowl."
"I have to say when I was bashing myself in the head with the rolling pin..." - best quote ever.
This is a great point about armor! Bicyclists don't wear motorcycle helmets, even though both motorcyclists and bicyclists are at risk of getting hit by cars.
The best helmet is one that you have. If you can wear it and carry it easily, you are more likely to have it and it will protect you. Practicality wins out unless you have others to assist you.
Thanks Matt, I really enjoy these videos. So many others miss these points of practicality and it's incredibly important.
That was probably the best opening for one of your videos EVER.
This was a fantastic video. More armour videos, please!
Great video. I'm a huge fan of the sallet helmet and seeing one in the flesh (albeit video) really just makes me happy. :)
such a badass looking helmet, you know it was popular cause it looked so aesthetic
You have some great stuff on your pintrest mate . Thanks for sharing
This is the best intro to a youtube video I've ever seen
Truly a beautiful piece of workmanship.
Greatest start to a video ever.
Finally an armour video. I've seen your MyArmoury profile picture Matt, I'd like to see the rest.
In point to fact, the iconic german helmet of ww1 and ww2 was based largly on the sallet. Interestingly the Brody designed British helmet was based on a medieval helmet as well, namely the kettle helm or the chapel-de-fer. So the 2 great wars of the modern age essentially had two of the most famous medieval helmets facing off against eachother from acrosd the battlefield, from the trenches of ww1 to the running battles of N. Africa over half a millenia after their first use in conflicts like the 100 years war. I think that is both amazing and brilliant!
You're like the Nut'nFancy of swords. Long videos that could be shorter, but you do three times a much to be sure you absolutely cover everything. These are great for stretching, draw practice, or standing at garde positions
the intro alone made me an instant subscriber! :D
Darth Vader used a german sallet.
+Gabriel Olmedo
Nope. Vader's helmet is too obviously a japanese helmet(kabuto).
+RyanRyzzo IT was inspired by many things, originally he was described in writing as just a "Space Samurai" what we see on screen is a slightly different take on that, its a mix of a Stahlhelm and the Kabuto [To go with the whole space nazi thing]
Darth Vader's helmet was based on the Helmets used by the Nazis in world war 2 which were based on the design of Sallets which were the most common type of Helmet used in the Holy Roman Empire during the late Middle Ages
vader chose the best
Inspiration for Vader's look was samurai armor. Same Japanese influence we see in Ben kenobi's Robes and Luke's outfit from the first film. But obviously you can argue Vader and stormtrooper helmets look like German 20th century helmets on steroids, and the designers were probably aware of the parallel.
The tails on the Sallet do lead to one nasty thing. The Italians called it the "Sun dial". It where you end up in rigen (grappling), and your opponent grabs the tail of the sallet and pulls your head down sharply and to the side, snapping your neck. Which is usually accompanied by a bright flash of light as you die. Thus the term sun dial. I've had this done to me while fighting in harness with Bob Charette. Quite an eye opening experience.
Great video, I'd love to see more like it.
Thanks for the very thorough video!
Slight edit Matt. I wear a motorcycle helmet all the time, and the padding serves functions of comfort & fit way more than safety 99.9% of the time. I sue my bike helm more than my combat helm but the same applies. The padding is there to make it more comfortable, allow for ventilation, and allow for it not moving about on your head and whacking you.
Imagine a helm that hit you back for every step, every move of your head, every trot of your horse. It would be a nightmare. Plus horsehair padded suspension liners, and even just the caps, have been reported by users to be quite a bit more comfortable as most of the heat comes from the sun falling on your head when not in combat or other hard exertion. Same as same for my HJC CL-17 helmet. The padding & channeling are there to mimic what a horsehair suspension helm does very well which is to channel air, heat, and sweat away from the face and the user overall.
When i saw this in my feed i though for sure that it was knyght Errant, not that i'm complaining.
you could have created a monster with this one Easton. The mind boggles at the range of instruments available. 🙂
This is the greatest opening to an SG video ever.
Of all the helms I like the Sallet the best.Its sweeping lines screams elegant,I love it.
Best start of video yet. :-D
Seeing the Video pop up in my newsfeed I thought Ian finally made the video about sallets, but 18 mins would have been way too short for him :P
Nicely done though, especially the intro^^
Nice video! Great way to start a video! xD
Also, try to say "I am the law" each time you put it on (Karl Urban style).
I can tell you feel like a total badass with that helmet on.
This was fascinating. I have been doing a lot of reading on the Siege of Malta. I would love to hear about Burgonet and Morion helmets. It is great hearing about helmets.
I usually have to pay good money to get beaten with a rolling pin. :)
What?
😂😂😂
i've always loved sallets. not because they're versatile and comfortable. i've never engaged in combat.
they just look cool.
Best Intro EVER! Want that Helm!
in modern jousting circles the sallet and bevors were dominant for more than 10 years (at the royal armouries, for instance)
And in historical jousting it is a VERY common helmet for 75 years or more. (not all jousters were able to get specific frogmouths and jousting 'at large' is rather tricky with a frogmouth.)
funnily enough... particularly popular with SHARP lances (as opposed to coronels)
i jousted at the armouries for years and all over the world with sallets, and when correctly made... it is fine. I recieved hundreds upon hundreds of face hits with various lance set ups on the sallet (balsa, 'ferrule', ash solids(sections of balsa lances), pine dowel, etc)
generally i expect up to 5-10% of all hits to be potentially to the head in jousting... just to be on the safe side.
of foot combat in friendly context we don't always know what helmet they wore. there is artwork that shows GBs indeed, and it is likely to be the most preferred, but there is mentions of sallets there as well.
some descriptions make mention only of the spike of a pollaxe being stuck in a visor... but not of what helmet, etc.
also,mounted contests like these are described more commonly than foot combat. this could be because a mounted event is always more complex as an event and has a bigger chance of being recorded, and doing foot combat and mounted combat on one day is rediculoulsy stressfull, (as i have done in canada, USA, Russia, holland, australia and so forth) so they often left the foot combat out (as you can see in the deeds of jaques de lalaing, where he is doing most fights on horseback, and only a few also on foot)
the style you have there is normally not fitted with such a deep visor plate, aso the neck shape is not so much a regional thing, but more a dating feature. long tailed sallets only really start developping in 1460-1470 and only become as clear and as common as we all assume in about 1480.
also italian-produced sallets 'a la tedesca' were sometimes those exact same shapes... in that period
original liners seem to have been padded spiders rather than leather, so you don't need a seperate padding. this makes donning it much quicker and more reliable... you just pop it on.
when being hit in the head with a steel headed,original weighted pollaxe the shaft can be broken (despite langets) on your head and not bother you much. it CAN knock you down, but usually it doesn't
it usually does jiggle your vision and allow for a grapple or pull on the neck.
using a sharp spike on a pollaxe is a very different proposition, and that can penetrate plate potentially, but also give a very different purchase to concuss.
An 18 minute video about sallets? Oh boy. :D
Is that a full poundage War Rolling Pin? Kind of invalidates the test if it's not.
great video Matt. Sallets are some of the most beautiful medieval helmets. Such sleeks lines and curves.
In retrospect, nobility and other battlefield commanders were expected to have a certain quality that demanded for a helmet that left the mouth open when wanted: the voice. Namely, the great booming command voice that could carry over the general din, bad attitudes, inbreeding and occasional brain damage that was common amongst massed groups of soldiers, and to motivate them with the sufficient fright to inspire movement towards the other bunch of people with pointy stabby bits.
One of my favourite examples is in Mika Waltari's - admittedly fictional - recounting of the ways of one Georg von Frundsberg, in the most stupidly name-translated book "The Adventurer". I recommend reading this book, and its sequel relating to the 16th century in the Orient, if for nothing but the many different exotic heads lopped off along its bloody-handed and meandering course throughout the old world.
Frundsberg, by the way, was a commander among the few armies to ever shatter the famed swiss pikemen.
awesome vid, I was planning to order from best armor :) thanks
0:10 Any other channel, people would be thinking: **gasp** don't hurt yourself! Here, everyone's thinking: **gasp** don't damage that helmet!
A fun fact, like you said bevor come from the French bavoir which has a different meaning today and this meaning is : the thing you put around babys' necks when they eat so they don't ruin their clothes. Think about this next time you admire a proud knight in full plate armour with a nice "bavoir" protecting him.
Unrelated to the video but would you review the fighting in the latest Macbeth? There's all sorts of interesting things there, daggers/short swords being carried on the back, dagger and longsword duel and straight-up sword fight. Just an idea.
Overall the best helm of the medieval and Renaissance period by far, aesthetically and functionally. I'm very misanthropic but I can't help but find it amazing that people with very little knowledge of physics and chemistry were able to make these things.
Indeed, as you pointed out, it has basically survived into the modern era via the Stahlhelm and its successors. No other such helmet can claim that, to my knowledge.
Look at the change from early Iraq war (2003) Full Soft ballistic vest (with plates) plus upper arm and groin protectors....to now mostly just front and back plates ...... they found soldiers overheated and were to slow. Combined with the fact that the soft armor only protects against handguns which are predominantly not used on the modern battlefield (especially compared to rifles).... protection vs comfort vs mobility. (Helmets haven’t really changed much though)
Inspired today.
Have you done, or could you do, a video on the differences between tournament, combat, and ceremonial armor?
I watched a Wars of Roses re-enactment about 10 years ago at Northampton and saw this happen. A pole axe's (spike end) up swept blow got between the Bevor and Sallet. The guy was fitting before he hit the floor. I do not know if he recovered.
great video
Sallets look absolutely bad-ass, and they also appear a bit quicker and easier to put on or off than certain other helmets.
WOW !!!!
I've never seen a rolling pin with handles shape like these are.
Ultimate video
By the way, "bavoir" means "bib", in the sense of the piece of fabric you put around a child's neck to catch drool and spilled food.
Sallet helmets are also commonly referred to as "salade" in french. Literally meaning "salad bowl".
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Along with the Armet, my favourite helmet
From the 1430's or so riiight the way through to the 21st Century I feel like, since a lot of modern helmets share a lot of design elements with the Sallet.
When are we going to see a video on the historical development and usage of the rolling pin in European kitchen conflicts?
Oh my gosh! I just realized something. If someone from another youtube channel said, "Let's see what's going on scholagladiatoria," and brings up a video of him literally at 0.12 it would be best what the heck moment ever haha.
0:20 "I'm fine!!"
I seriously question that, Matt :P
Hi Matt
I have read or heard somewhere that to keep the helmet from ringin you could cover the insides with bees wax
nice video! at 2:05 it's bavière in french. exactly "gorgerin avec bavière"
I'm kind of surprised by the lack of vent holes in the dome of the helmet. Certainly it wouldn't compromise anything to put 4-6 little holes and it makes a big difference to the heat inside.