>>64003723
>>time, place, shape, purpose, and historically used terms aren’t good enough
does everyone know what the differences between a baquemarde, a storta, a fawchon, a falchoun, and a malchus, are? or the difference between a tesak, a tasak, a dussac, a messer, a langes messer, a grossesmesser, a kriegsmesser, a kordy, a mes, a sax, a rugger, a bauernwehr, a hauswehr, a wehr, a waid, a waidpraxe, and a parasztkés are?
do you know what a Cinquedea was actually called in-period?
in particular, how do you know the difference between a sax, and a sax, for example, where the same names were used for different items hundreds of years apart?
Does everyone know the difference between a sword from 1150, and 1250?
Can everyone know the purpose behind a Jagdmesser, a stiff, thrusting blade, and a tuck, with a stiff thrusting blade? they're not the same purpose.
Does everyone have the ability to tell the difference between a longsword from 1450, from north Germany, and one from south Germany? or tell that from one from north Italy?
Now, lets look at that medieval sword, its diamond section, tapering, ogive tip, with a broad base, and a two-handed grip.
as opposed to this medieval sword, diamond section, tapering, less ogive tip, with a broad base, and a two-handed grip.
Or, for the two in my head as I described those, I could say "Type XVIIIc" and "Type XVa" and people know what I'm referring to.
That's why typologies are used. because no, you do not know the difference of language, or of place, or of date, or of purpose sufficiently to allow accurate definition. and people in general certainly dont.
that's the sort of stupid shit that leads to everything being called a "Broadsword", be it from the Norman age, or the English civil war.
