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Warren Ellis: Crécy
Not exactly Simon Schama...
From one of my favorite GNs of the past few years, Warren Ellis and Raulo Caceres' Crécy from Avatar/Apparat.
I have posted my favorite pages, but to remain under the limit they're not consecutive mostly. Afraid you'll just have to read the whole thing after this, and it's still in print so do that.
A few words about arrowheads. And the Welsh.
And because the French would not allow commoners in the army and got unprepared mercenaries instead, and because the English had an army of trained commoner longbowmen, this happened. After the battle, we tie off loose ends, and learn the origin of a certain English gesture.
The reason for the gesture was that when archers were caught, those fingers were cut off. It was proof you could still fire an arrow.
All story and artwork (c)2007 Warren Ellis and Raulo Caceres
I have posted my favorite pages, but to remain under the limit they're not consecutive mostly. Afraid you'll just have to read the whole thing after this, and it's still in print so do that.
A few words about arrowheads. And the Welsh.
And because the French would not allow commoners in the army and got unprepared mercenaries instead, and because the English had an army of trained commoner longbowmen, this happened. After the battle, we tie off loose ends, and learn the origin of a certain English gesture.
The reason for the gesture was that when archers were caught, those fingers were cut off. It was proof you could still fire an arrow.
All story and artwork (c)2007 Warren Ellis and Raulo Caceres
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"During the 4th century BC Scythian archers tipped their arrow tips with snake venom, human blood, and animal feces to cause wounds to become infected..."
Granted, they were trying a bit of everything, and Europeans did do things like use cowshit to build homes. (No, seriously--watch Tony Robinson's WORST JOBS IN HISTORY, which if nothing else, shows that shit was apparently quite important back then) But it doesn't take science to know that shit is foul, and that foul things might cause harm. I never said(that was Ellis) that they knew WHY.
An example that might illustrate what I'm saying here: Bleeding has, in certain specific cases, health benefits. As they didn't know why, though, they used it for most everything, and unsurprisingly most of the uses they put it to were inappropriate.
As Ellis lurks here, I really wish he'd settle this by explaining what his source is on that fact.