Show LOATH TO GIVE UP ARMOR I I Nobles Wore It as Gala Costume Long After It Was of Any Value as Protection Until the sixteenth century armor developed de dew in a logical way ny Its forms were governed by the necessities of ot war changes In It were the result of practical experience and actual experiment experiment experiment ment on the battlefield not battlefield not decided upon In the office of the time minister of war After the sixteenth century It became he- he canie came fantastic tlc and meaningless a gala ala costume rather than a harness the time greatest captains opposed its use but the time nobles clung to It as a mark of ot distinction After It was made bulletproof It became became became be be- came so enormously heavy that at the end of ot the sixteenth h century Lan m that gentlemen of thirty were already deformed b by the weight of ot their armor In spite of the huge armors of Henrj Henr VIII III of Anthony of ot Burgundy and of ot some sonic others the average size of the themo mo modern ern man Is greater than that of the soldier of ot the middle ages and the renaissance renaissance renaissance re re- re- re if we can cnn judge from the armors preserved In the time museums of England and the Continent which are with few exceptions small and narrow narrow narrow nar nar- row especially In the leg and thigh pieces |