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he enemy since 2011 about me about symbol key ememh titles citing the blog reviews subscribe to rss archive december 2013 december 29 2013 in research 5 comments transcription practically performed thanks to the transcribing efforts of andy tumath the world can now add a significant portion of nathaniel boteler s war practically perform d to its digitized corpus for those who can t wait until the break here s a summary in word cloud format of course boteler war practically performed word cloud wordle voyant s cirrus word cloud does a better job with english stop words even though you can t really modify the format boteler from voyant s cirrus word cloud funny how taporware s stop list eliminates the may while wordle s eliminates the shall and in case you forgot voyant boteler in voyant one guess as to which part of boteler s work focuses on fortifications and siegecraft i ll leave it to those with more spare time to pull out gems but given recent discussion of cumbersome armor and my own interest in the cowardice attributed to those skulking behind protection i thought this section on armor was germane recall that this was published in 1663 and again in 1672 we shall speak in the next place and in this second chapter of the second principal contained under the first requireable that is of arms and first of defensive and those fitted for the bodies of men touching which i shall not particularize in the pieces and names well enough known to every train band man but only enquire into the use and when they seem best fitted for service and for the turn they are provided and first of those called arms of proof proofed armor american southwest virtual museum a proof indeed of the degeneration of mens spirits and courage and wherewith 8 the wearers become so over charged and shackled that they seem chiefly prepared to fight against the shock and brunt of their own coats of steel and as if bound rather to defend their arms then their arms are in which regard for mine own part i find no reason why they should be in any great request for should there be found one man of a thousand so well underlaid as to match or stand under one of them yet shall he note be able to fight no not to keep his legs against the force of a musquet shot within point blank or a level range for though perhaps it pierce not his thick armour yet shall it sure enough lay the bearer on his back there to lie until he find a comrade or two to set him on his feet or be troden to death with the prease of his own side and truly there is but little difference either in respect of assistance to his partie or safetie to himself between a mans being killed by a musquet shot by the want of his boisterous arms and his being overthrown and tortured to death by having them upon him for those who refuse to believe that a word cloud is the window into an author s soul you can always read more read more december 23 2013 in research 3 comments merry christmas if your idea of a christmas present is watching a guy in 15c armor running on a treadmill merry christmas the study published in the proceedings of the royal society b biological sciences argues that steel plate armor doubled the energy expended by unencumbered soldiers i seem to recall medievalists arguing that the finely crafted balance of plate mail made it not much of an encumbrance at all so i wonder if this is a revelation or not here s the abstract from the journal article in medieval europe soldiers wore steel plate armour for protection during warfare armour design reflected a trade off between protection and mobility it offered the wearer by the fifteenth century a typical suit of field armour weighed between 30 and 50 kg and was distributed over the entire body how much wearing armour affected medieval soldiers locomotor energetics and biomechanics is unknown we investigated the mechanics and the energetic cost of locomotion in armour and determined the effects on physical performance we found that the net cost of locomotion c met during armoured walking and running is much more energetically expensive than unloaded locomotion c met for locomotion in armour was 2 1 2 3 times higher for walking and 1 9 times higher for running when compared with c met for unloaded locomotion at the same speed an important component of the increased energy use results from the extra force that must be generated to support the additional mass however the energetic cost of locomotion in armour was also much higher than equivalent trunk loading this additional cost is mostly explained by the increased energy required to swing the limbs and impaired breathing our findings can predict age associated decline in medieval soldiers physical performance and have potential implications in understanding the outcomes of past european military battles of course this leaves all sorts of questions unanswered assuming the scientists included all the relevant variables in their experiment the british media has framed the question around the battle of agincourt no surprise where the french men at arms famously dismounted and slogged their way across a ploughed field to get at the awaiting english as an aside the first exam in my first grad school foray into ememh a joe guilmartin course required me to put myself in the greaves of a french knight as i slogged across that soggy field i don t remember my grade but i do remember ending it with dying thoughts of my petite chouchou back home whom i would never see again but i digress i wonder if the agincourt framing is a bit misleading since the english are generally said to be among the first to dismount their own knights to shore up their archers so i guess i m left wondering how we incorporate this information into our understanding of late medieval battlefield tactics presumably it provided further encouragement for the preference for defensive dispositions in battle as cliff rogers emphasizes any other thoughts december 17 2013 in miscellaneous 2 comments people of color in ememh art npr had an interesting article on a tumblr blog people of color in european art history the topic raises some interesting methodological questions about historians use of art and it made me immediately think of this painting yo john you forgot your helmet i ve always wondered about this portrait not the center of the painting the great captain holding a marshal s baton wearing a fancy silk sash on a rearing mount is standard iconographical fare see a collection here i mean the black attendant in the left corner uninitiated in the arcana that is art history i wonder why he was included did marlborough actually have a black servant s did most generals most english gentry did early modern blacks campaign in northern europe as later colonial troops would did marlborough pick up some african slaves servants from his early service at tangier i recall that in caribbean siege capitulations black slaves were included as property that evacuating garrison troops were allowed to take with them or maybe the artist added this individual to evoke some spanish e g moorish connection or connotation or was the african page intended to simply provide variety among marlborough s many portraits did this insert an element of the exotic into an otherwise monotonous genre of great captain portraiture i can t recall seeing any other black figures in the admittedly mostly north european military art i m familiar with which makes me curious any thoughts december 15 2013 in methodology 2 comments a never ending mapquest i find myself at the end of most semesters brainstorming on how i might ease my teaching burden i teach about eight different upper level courses on early modern europe in rotation on subjects periods and places ranging from the renaissance through napoleon in addition to western civ almost every course usually covers 100 years or more as well as several different european countries heck my religion war and peace course even takes it back to the old testament since i only teach each course perhaps once every two or three years i often only vaguely remember the details of many events memory really does benefit from repetition it appears so as i reflect on the semester just ending i wonder for the umpteenth time how i can make it easier to remember a myriad of historical details i hate the fact that i ll forget many of the details i covered this semester and will have to relearn them when i teach the same course again in a couple of years even rereading my notes requires a lot of time i d prefer to save for other things i want in short to efficiently prep for class by reviewing a visualization of my notes on the campaign or war or theater or commander or historical event under discussion and then narrate off of it in class and provide the visual to students for their own notes is that asking too much read more december 10 2013 in research 1 comment bow before the master semester teaching winding down administrative duties ramping up overdue research projects beckoning the normal rhythms of academic life in other words i m working on an ever expanding post on military historical visualizations maps mostly but in the meantime i ll post what is to my eye the most impressive historical visualization i ve seen image from joxe la crise cubaine reproduced in bertin semiology of graphics 264 why do i like this so much i can t really comment on the actual content not being an expert in the cuban missile crisis but the design is gorgeous the diagram does so many things well it deals with data that historians experience all the time non quantitative or perhaps ordinal at best impressionistic data information that is as i ve discussed previously difficult to visualize it gives the viewer a sense of the options available to historical actors the paths not taken historians love them some contingency it suggests the possibility of more than one choice being taken at the same time of multiple choices being made and how their effects could potentially contradict each other it helps tell a narrative a story of how specific decisions were made to increase or decrease the likelihood of outright war and maybe both at the same time and despite the non quantitative aspects of the data the diagram still seeks to categorize the information in a systematic fashion using visual variables it shows what we mean when we talk about escalation besides it uses icons and you know how much i love icons i also find the diagram interesting because it leads to as many questions as answers making explicit what much textual discussion keeps implicit the graphic encourages the reader to wonder how the author assigned the level of danger y value of each choice to wonder how each side sought to reconcile their multiple actions e g how the soviets both de escalated and at the same time made broader threats to consider the extent to which these decision were actually sequential and not concurrent to wonder where exactly the y axis reaches a 100 chance of war and so on making such visualizations also forces us as authors to explicitly think about these same issues that s a good thing why else do i like it because i was allured to the general format of multiple spectra awhile ago though i didn t implement it nearly as effectively nor with as much data density as joxe how literally should one interpret the bible what s even more impressive about the cuban missile crisis diagram is that it was created in the 1960s in a french journal for the mathematical study of political and strategic problems so seriously what has happened to historical visualizations since the 1970s why have we regressed to such an extent that most history books barely include a base map of the geography under discussion and yet we can peer into the psyche of historical figures by looking at their portraits are our visualization skills that rusty are our graphic software skills that rusty are anglophone works that divorced from the 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