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.
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