03-25-2004, 05:37 AM
It is not a hot debating issue. Nobody has seriously considered it a valid type of armour for decades. The term "besongne quasiguesnée" doesn't exist in any text before the 19th century. It was a term invented by Victorian scholars in an attempt to define the armour represented in some contemporary illustrations. It is the overwhelming consensus of the armour community today that it never existed and that those sculptures and illustrations represent nothing more elaborate than standard 4-in-1 mail made of alternating rows of solid and riveted links. <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://pub45.ezboard.com/bromanarmytalk.showUserPublicProfile?gid=danielraymondhoward>Daniel Raymond Howard</A> at: 3/25/04 6:52 am<br></i>
