... une lance demesurement longue ...
В "Щит и меч султана" о копьях "мавров" в Тунисе в 17-м веке.
копье непропорционально длинное, примерно 12 брассов
Ссылка на Grandchamp, Pierre. Une mission delicate en Barbarie au XVII siecle: J.B. Salvago, drogman venitien, a Alger et a Tunis (1625) // Revue Tunisienne. 1937. №31/32. P.494
Архив номеров Revue tunisienne.
Насколько понимаю - это французский перевод вот этого итальянского издания "Africa overo Barbaria": relazione al doge di Venezia sulle reggenze di Algeri e di Tunisi del dragomanno Gio. Batta Salvago, 1625. 1937.
Если меры не пересчитаны, то это, вроде бы, венецианский braccio, который по Zupko R.E. Italian Weights and Measures from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century. 1981
By the Early Modem period ... (0.639 m) at Venice, "da seta" of 12 once
Того - 7,7 метра.
В книге Prudencio de Sandoval. Historia de la vida y hechos del emperador Carlos V. T. II. 1614 Тунис, 1535 год.
Ланца длиной в 50 пядей (а обычно они 45). Кастильский palmo - 20,9 см. То есть - 10,45 и 9,4 метра.
Тунисцы из Códice de Trajes (Códice Madrazo-Daza). ca. 1540-1550. Тут, тут и тут.
Если я правильно понял, то schvoh это schuh, немецкий фут. Только не ясно - какой именно, их там целая куча была "в районе 30 см". Но длина пики опять выходит в районе 10 метров. Кстати - чему верим больше? Написанному или нарисованному? =)
Вообще картинка чудная - плоские стремена, седло со сравнительно высокими луками, посадка на коротких стременах, мечи, шпоры, длинные (огромные) копья, мундштучное оголовье.
Можно еще на североафриканских всадников на гобелленах из серии "Завоевание Туниса" посмотреть. Еще.
Fancy H.A. The mercenary Mediterranean: sovereignty, religion, and violence in the medieval crown of Aragon. 2016
As is well attested to in Arabic sources, this lightly armed style of riding as well as the tactic of attacking and fleeing (known as al-karr wa’l-farr) began among the Arabs and Berbers of North Africa, in particular members of the Zanāta tribes. According to the eleventh-century historian Ibn Ḥayyān (d. 1097), lightly armored Berber troops rode on saddles with low pommels, the so-called sarj ‘udwiyy (racing saddle), that allowed them greater maneuverability on horseback. While seeing this technique as strategically and morally inferior to closed formations, which had been the style employed by the early Islamic armies, Ibn Khaldūn (1332- 1406) confirmed that light cavalry was the only style employed in the Maghrib in his time:
“Fighting in closed formation (zaḥf) is steadier and fiercer than attacking and fleeing. ... [But] the fighting of people of their country [i.e., North Africa] is all attacking and fleeing.”
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After the rise of the Almohads, the influence of these soldiers in royal courts appeared to increase. Once in the corridors of power, Christian militias and their captains became embroiled in intrigues and palace coups. Nevertheless, as Ibn Khaldūn explained, they held a reputation for fierce loyalty and were prized as heavy cavalry, which was unknown in North Africa (fig. 4):
"We have mentioned the strength that a line formation [of heavy cavalry] behind the army gives to fighters who use the technique of attacking and fleeing (al-karr wa’l-farr). Therefore the North African rulers have come to employ groups of Franks (ṭā’ifa min al-Ifranj) in their army, and they are the only ones to have done that, because their countrymen only know how to attack and flee".
These knights collected taxes for the caliphs, suppressed rebellions, and participated in demonstrations of force (maḥalla) among the nomadic tribes at the empire’s fringes.