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He set it in the remote past so he wouldn't have to care about historical accuracy. Howard liked writing historical fiction but disliked having to make it perfectly accurate.
Which is why you have 16th century french knights alongside 10th century vikings and 19th century afghans.
If Howard didn't want to write about a medieval sallet he would have written helmet or helm. He wouldn't have explicitely described medieval armor and weaponry and clothing.
>including Howard himself
Howard didn't do the art for weird tales. Retard. Do you actually think Howard had any choice in the artwork used for his stories?
>as the artwork used at the time he was alive clearly draws from antiquity, not the high medieval period
This illustration for black colossus proves you wrong
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>>214268697
You're literally obessed with promoting the idea that your Hyborian age headcanon is right and that howard's descriptions are actually a convulted way of describing completely different peoples and time periods
Complte and utter derangment. Every R E Howard scholar and expert disagrees with you by the way :)