Please don't neglect the quality of the production for these videos. I want to see these curators in the same great quality we see Jonathan, because the curators deserve it and we are eager to learn more from the others.
For these other curators, and for Jonathan as well, I'd like to see more camera angles, closeups of the item, etc. I feel like we just get these very basic shots and miss out on seeing the details. For those of us who can't see these items in person it's a detriment.
What I'd love as an accompaniment to these videos is some images/historical drawings of some of the other designs he is describing as he goes through them. The compare and contrast would be fascinating
Thanks, staff weapons don't get enough love! Which makes me wonder about your earliest unadorned staves. Could you do deep dives into the whole evolution of staves, addressing their implementation and use among the classes, and how, where and when their various evolutions happened, bringing the various attached accoutrements to further each evolutionary step in the history and cultural evolution of weapons. You're in the primary position to dispel ingrained beliefs about how things were actually used (compared to what we frequently see in filmed representations).
When travelling in the Northern Hemisphere a couple of decades ago, I was particularly fascinated by the huge variety of staff/pole weapons that I saw during my obsessive visitations of Castles and Museums, but was somewhat frustrated by the lack of detail in the descriptions and the somewhat random titles of bills, picks, glaives, poleaxes, halberds, bardiches, war scythes, fauchards, guisarmes, voulges and partizans, etc. I look forward to more in-depth videos on these types of weapons! Thank you!
Cinquedea on a stick. It's a amazing to think how much we know about the history of arms and armour due to Henry VIII being such a colossal weapons nerd. He may have been a bloodthirsty tyrant, but he built a really cool collection of weird armaments.
Fantastic video, thank you Iason. It's so good to hear what you and the other curators find interesting and relevant about these pieces! One piece of info I'd have loved to hear more about is why those decorations were chosen, e.g. what the relevance of those saints would have been at the time and to the person making the partizan, or to the recipient. Very much looking forward to the next video in the series!
I am really liking the Up in Arms series so far - partly because we see a great variety of items, but in particular: Passion for details! I love learning about the nuance of what makes an item, patern, or category of item unique, and he captures this beautifully! I hope that more broadly, content creators can embrace being caught up in the details, the patterns, how things change bit by bit over the years. Very much enjoyed!
@@Josh_2976 Christ, me neither. I'd rather be shot than get run through by one of those fucking things. Can you imagine how many stitches you'd need on your front AND back? That's assuming you're unlucky enough to live lol
Such a lovely and scary tool. It has that "it can hurt you even if it's still" aura. Outstanding pronunciation of all the italian names. It's not easy to use them with such precision and absence of accent. Mr. Tzouriadis, you have all my compliments.
It's not just staff weapons in real life which get shafted. In gaming, the Souls and Elden Ring games are the only ones I've ever played which call out this weapon type by name. Even branching out beyond that, staff weapons and polearms get the short end of the stick in most melee focused games, either not appearing or only appearing as enemy weapons and set dressing, rather than usable weapons.
I love staff weapons personally. The blade on that one is beautiful. I would have liked to have seen the whole weapon to get a better idea of what kind of reach it has.
They are described in the fencing treatise of Achille Marozzo (published 1536) as being about as tall for a wielder as one could reach straight up with one hand, plus two more palm-widths. In estimation from many surviving examples, a ≈2.7 m / ≈9 ft overall length is what my club trains with (using rattan hafts for safety).
Quite enjoyed that, like yourself i find polearms fascinating. It would have been just the cherry on top if you had been able to go into some of how it was actually made, and some of the period matial techniques it would have ben used with, theres so much skill in a polearm
Very impressive specimen indeed. Also, I'm very grateful for the introduction to the typology of partizans, this part is often overlooked, but it helps greatly to contextualise the example at hand, especially in terms of design evolution. The mention of the thirteenth and fourteenth century partizans is especially welcome, because these aren't common at all in collections and are rarely even recognized in pictorial sources like manuscript miniatures.
Good presentation. Two things , a suggestion the lighting needs some improvement and a question, how long was the staff and overall length. Oh, in both Imperial and Metric because some of us are Americans.
An excellent video, Iason, except for the reference to the ‘arsenal’ of Henry the Eighth. An arsenal is a place where weapons are made and repaired. An armoury is a place where weapons are stored. Look up the Collins dictionary, if you have any confusion over this matter. Perhaps create some rough notes, using a felt marker, to avoid a ‘slip of the tongue’. The use of the term ‘arsenal’ to describe an armoury, is nearly as inappropriate as the use of the word ‘bullet’ to describe a live round of safety ammunition. Thank you for contributing to my knowledge. Hopefully you can convince the Royal Armouries to ensure consistent production values for all of these educational videos. I look forward to seeing more videos from you. Cheers from NZ🇳🇿.
I love that. I am a pretty good hobbiest blade maker. My focus has been culinary knives with very high performance steel and design. I am hoping to begin to make 1 to 1 replica in the future and saved this video for one of the pieces I would like to try.
I love its shape...like someone combined a sword with a spear with an umbrella. I wonder if the pros and cons of this weapon are similar to swordstaff weapons? IIRC, swordstaffs were used briefly in medieval Northern Europe (Svärdstav) and in ancient China (Sha) but died out without seeing widespread use.
What a beautiful lang de beve, and what a wonderfully heroic Greek name you have!😁 Btw, could this also be called a ghiavarina, or would that have to have the cross-piece/wings/lugs?
I'm not gonna explain how militiae used to operate in the middle ages but yes, "partisan" is a man that "picks a part" aka takes up arms in a specific militia and partigiana may very well derive its name from that.
very nice video, thanks! minor feedback: if you point out features with a black glove, it can be a bit hard to follow on different devices. It's easy to use the blue or white variant of gloves :)
To me it really does look like an extra large cinquedea on a stick! Please do make a video about cinquedea and talk about the similarity and connections if any.
"Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong." -Joel 3:10, King James Bible "Beat your plowshares into spears: let the weak say, it's too heavy." -Joel 3:10, Bolognese Edition
When I first saw the thumbnail I thought, why are they showing a Whale harpoon🧐. Then I found out it is used to kill people. The whales got lucky with this one 😂
Love the videos but the lighting is atrocious. A couple of led bulbs wouldn't go amiss or break the bank. Would prefer static photos when pointing out certain things with commentary as the presenter waving the item around and poor filming detracts from very interesting talks.
I found this video a bit hard to follow. The structure wasn't great. Also it would have been helpful, to me at least, if more examples would have been shown. Nevertheless. Great video. I agree more information on polearms with all the variations and confusing definitions and types would be great! Thx
Please don't neglect the quality of the production for these videos. I want to see these curators in the same great quality we see Jonathan, because the curators deserve it and we are eager to learn more from the others.
Well said I love Jonathan but its always fun seeing a different face who can impart different knowlage :)
For these other curators, and for Jonathan as well, I'd like to see more camera angles, closeups of the item, etc. I feel like we just get these very basic shots and miss out on seeing the details. For those of us who can't see these items in person it's a detriment.
What I'd love as an accompaniment to these videos is some images/historical drawings of some of the other designs he is describing as he goes through them. The compare and contrast would be fascinating
Thanks, staff weapons don't get enough love!
Which makes me wonder about your earliest unadorned staves.
Could you do deep dives into the whole evolution of staves, addressing their implementation and use among the classes, and how, where and when their various evolutions happened, bringing the various attached accoutrements to further each evolutionary step in the history and cultural evolution of weapons.
You're in the primary position to dispel ingrained beliefs about how things were actually used (compared to what we frequently see in filmed representations).
My first thought: "Is that a speartip designed to kill a dragon?"
When travelling in the Northern Hemisphere a couple of decades ago, I was particularly fascinated by the huge variety of staff/pole weapons that I saw during my obsessive visitations of Castles and Museums, but was somewhat frustrated by the lack of detail in the descriptions and the somewhat random titles of bills, picks, glaives, poleaxes, halberds, bardiches, war scythes, fauchards, guisarmes, voulges and partizans, etc. I look forward to more in-depth videos on these types of weapons! Thank you!
Great video, I would love to see more about medieval and renaissance weapons.
Cinquedea on a stick. It's a amazing to think how much we know about the history of arms and armour due to Henry VIII being such a colossal weapons nerd. He may have been a bloodthirsty tyrant, but he built a really cool collection of weird armaments.
Fantastic video, thank you Iason. It's so good to hear what you and the other curators find interesting and relevant about these pieces! One piece of info I'd have loved to hear more about is why those decorations were chosen, e.g. what the relevance of those saints would have been at the time and to the person making the partizan, or to the recipient. Very much looking forward to the next video in the series!
I am really liking the Up in Arms series so far - partly because we see a great variety of items, but in particular: Passion for details! I love learning about the nuance of what makes an item, patern, or category of item unique, and he captures this beautifully!
I hope that more broadly, content creators can embrace being caught up in the details, the patterns, how things change bit by bit over the years. Very much enjoyed!
Great video, but can something be done with the lack of lighting?
yes i agree with you!
Thank you Iason for that really enlightening presentation. A valuable bit of knowledge for the middleages lovers
Okay I never imagined that Partizan would actually be that huge the head is like a arming sword put on a stick
More like a cinquedea.
@@MrDDiRusso Thank you I was trying to remember that word
@@MrDDiRusso Were they that long? I was under the impression cinquedea were daggers
Aye the thing is bloody massive. Certainly wouldn't want to be facing the business end of it 😂
@@Josh_2976 Christ, me neither. I'd rather be shot than get run through by one of those fucking things. Can you imagine how many stitches you'd need on your front AND back? That's assuming you're unlucky enough to live lol
Such a lovely and scary tool. It has that "it can hurt you even if it's still" aura.
Outstanding pronunciation of all the italian names. It's not easy to use them with such precision and absence of accent.
Mr. Tzouriadis, you have all my compliments.
It's not just staff weapons in real life which get shafted. In gaming, the Souls and Elden Ring games are the only ones I've ever played which call out this weapon type by name. Even branching out beyond that, staff weapons and polearms get the short end of the stick in most melee focused games, either not appearing or only appearing as enemy weapons and set dressing, rather than usable weapons.
I love staff weapons personally. The blade on that one is beautiful.
I would have liked to have seen the whole weapon to get a better idea of what kind of reach it has.
They are described in the fencing treatise of Achille Marozzo (published 1536) as being about as tall for a wielder as one could reach straight up with one hand, plus two more palm-widths. In estimation from many surviving examples, a ≈2.7 m / ≈9 ft overall length is what my club trains with (using rattan hafts for safety).
I’m a little silly, that was Pietro/Pedro Monte in 1509, not Marozzo. Pardon me, I was first told a couple of years ago and conflated my sources.
I love seeing Jonathan, but it's definitely nice to see others with other types of weapons too
Yes! Great video and I would LOVE a video on cinquedea.
Quite enjoyed that, like yourself i find polearms fascinating. It would have been just the cherry on top if you had been able to go into some of how it was actually made, and some of the period matial techniques it would have ben used with, theres so much skill in a polearm
Amazing video my friend!
Fantastic thank you for sharing
Very impressive specimen indeed. Also, I'm very grateful for the introduction to the typology of partizans, this part is often overlooked, but it helps greatly to contextualise the example at hand, especially in terms of design evolution. The mention of the thirteenth and fourteenth century partizans is especially welcome, because these aren't common at all in collections and are rarely even recognized in pictorial sources like manuscript miniatures.
That would have been gorgeous with gold gilding
Thanks for sharing 👍 fantastic piece of history
Thank you, fascinating level of knowledge.
wow thank you so much for sharing awesome video. That almost looks like an extra-large Cinquedea
Good presentation. Two things , a suggestion the lighting needs some improvement and a question, how long was the staff and overall length. Oh, in both Imperial and Metric because some of us are Americans.
An excellent video, Iason, except for the reference to the ‘arsenal’ of Henry the Eighth. An arsenal is a place where weapons are made and repaired. An armoury is a place where weapons are stored. Look up the Collins dictionary, if you have any confusion over this matter. Perhaps create some rough notes, using a felt marker, to avoid a ‘slip of the tongue’. The use of the term ‘arsenal’ to describe an armoury, is nearly as inappropriate as the use of the word ‘bullet’ to describe a live round of safety ammunition.
Thank you for contributing to my knowledge. Hopefully you can convince the Royal Armouries to ensure consistent production values for all of these educational videos. I look forward to seeing more videos from you. Cheers from NZ🇳🇿.
thank you for the video
The Bolognese Parmesan
🤣
I love that. I am a pretty good hobbiest blade maker. My focus has been culinary knives with very high performance steel and design. I am hoping to begin to make 1 to 1 replica in the future and saved this video for one of the pieces I would like to try.
I love its shape...like someone combined a sword with a spear with an umbrella. I wonder if the pros and cons of this weapon are similar to swordstaff weapons? IIRC, swordstaffs were used briefly in medieval Northern Europe (Svärdstav) and in ancient China (Sha) but died out without seeing widespread use.
What a beautiful lang de beve, and what a wonderfully heroic Greek name you have!😁 Btw, could this also be called a ghiavarina, or would that have to have the cross-piece/wings/lugs?
Interesting video! It was pretty dark and hard to see though.
Is its name related to the modern meaning of partisan?
I'm not gonna explain how militiae used to operate in the middle ages but yes, "partisan" is a man that "picks a part" aka takes up arms in a specific militia and partigiana may very well derive its name from that.
very nice video, thanks!
minor feedback: if you point out features with a black glove, it can be a bit hard to follow on different devices. It's easy to use the blue or white variant of gloves :)
To me it really does look like an extra large cinquedea on a stick! Please do make a video about cinquedea and talk about the similarity and connections if any.
Early Modern tat! 😁
Хорошо, что Яндекс Браузер теперь умеет переводить видео на ютубе. Где бы я еще послушал ребят из королевского арсенала?!
That's one badass looking polearm, stave, longpointythingwithsharpedge. Its so wide!
I think you mixed up the saints, st Barbara holds the tower not st Catherine
So, how long is it?
It looks a bit like a cinquedea on a long shaft!
"Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong." -Joel 3:10, King James Bible
"Beat your plowshares into spears: let the weak say, it's too heavy." -Joel 3:10, Bolognese Edition
When I first saw the thumbnail I thought, why are they showing a Whale harpoon🧐. Then I found out it is used to kill people. The whales got lucky with this one 😂
The Nameless King spear
Sublime Pertuisane !
Mmmm Ox-tongue Bolognese molto delizioso !
To wield old partisans, in hands as old, Canker'd with peace ✌️
i woud love to see a bec de corvin
Need one of those in the windlass reproductions 😊
"Bolognese partizan" sounds delicious. 😁
That makes my boar wing spear look small lol
Love the videos but the lighting is atrocious. A couple of led bulbs wouldn't go amiss or break the bank.
Would prefer static photos when pointing out certain things with commentary as the presenter waving the item around and poor filming detracts from very interesting talks.
I found this video a bit hard to follow. The structure wasn't great. Also it would have been helpful, to me at least, if more examples would have been shown.
Nevertheless. Great video. I agree more information on polearms with all the variations and confusing definitions and types would be great!
Thx
Now this is the thing I want to be holding when I'm shouting at some punks to "get off my lawn!"
cavalry’s most feared weapons…. a wall of these and NO cavalry would make it…
Talk with Johnathan about your lighting set up please and blue gloves not black and we will be able to see more
Are you related to Julio Geordio? 🤣
That's one big pig sticker
Now this is a zombie weapon 😐
Bolognese? No thanks, I just ate.
can't see anything
This is a terrible video it's so dark you can barely see anything
it seemed you were trying to hide the object instead of display it
My god, get proper lighting.