On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 18:53 -0500, David Scheidt 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?
Off-hand, more like 10% by then. The thing is, talking about these sorts of goods, if they're cheap by the standards of the poor, you're talking about a late-industrial revolution or later period. My point was that mass-production dates much earlier than that, and produced things that were, by the standards of the time, quite affordable to those who would be interested in buying them. -- Rupert Boleyn A pessimist is an optimist with a sense of history. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
