- Banded mail
Banded mail is a composite armor formed by combining the concepts behind the Roman
lorica segmentata with splint mail. It may otherwise be described as an 'armor of bands'. It is sometimes described as "a form of mail reinforced with bands ofleather ."The historicity of banded mail has been controversial. Although considered real during the 1800s, [cite book | last = Fairholt| first = Frederick William | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Costume in England: A History of Dress to the End of the Eighteenth Century | publisher = G. Bell and Sons | date = 1885 | location = | pages = 27 | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=scwDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA27&lpg=PA27&dq=%22banded+mail%22+history&source=web&ots=j0GY75AvEZ&sig=Vgu_DdLJbGhSLgMS_YhubYvEK6Q | doi = | id = | isbn = ] [cite book | last = Hewitt | first = John | authorlink = | coauthors = Claude Blair | title = Ancient Armour and Weapons in Europe: From the iron period of the northern nations to the end of the seventeenth century | publisher = John Henry and James Parker | date = 1860 | location = | pages = 268 | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=gUW7Kz9ylKkC&pg=PA268&dq=%22banded+mail%22+history | doi = | id = | isbn = ] later books on history claim that banded mail arose due to a misinterpretation of medieval artistic practices. [cite book | last = Blair | first = Claude | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = European Armour circa IO66 to circa 1700 | publisher = THE MACMILLAN COMPANY | date = 1959 | location = New York | pages = 35-36 | url = http://www.13c.ru/texts/blair.pdf | doi = | id = | isbn = ]
Banded mail also appears in
Dungeons & Dragons . Debates about the existence of banded mail have also appeared in Dragon Magazine. [ cite journal|title=Forum|journal=Dragon Magazine|date=July 1987|first=|last=|coauthors=|volume=XII|issue=123|pages=6–8|id= |url=|format=|accessdate=2008-04-08 ] [ cite journal|title=Forum|journal=Dragon Magazine|date=October 1987|first=|last=|coauthors=|volume=XII|issue=126|pages=56–57|id= |url=|format=|accessdate=2008-04-08 ] [ cite journal|title=Forum|journal=Dragon Magazine|date=March 1988|first=|last=|coauthors=|volume=XII|issue=131|pages=6–8|id= |url=|format=|accessdate=2008-04-08 ]References
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