On 12/4/05, David Scheidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 12/4/05, Rupert Boleyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Basic metal armour was not terribly expensive by late medieval times, by > > the standards of those who weren't peasants or urban poor (and just > > about everything was expensive by their standards). > > So, it wasn't terribly expensive by the standards of what? 5% of the > population?
Exactly. MOST were peasants and poor. The very small class of landed gentry would have been able to afford this, as would small numbers within the rising merchant class in a few cities. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
