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Originally Posted by jason taylor
I should think the main thing you would not have is full plate. Mail in point of fact is a more tech-intensive product than plate which is a fairly simple idea. What they did not have is the massive amounts of plate common in the latter Middle Ages. Probably any improvement would be in metalurgy; the concept of plate is fairly basic. If a Frankish knight acquired a brestplate somehow(say he was on a diplomatic mission to Byzantium and saw one for sale) it would not be odd. What would be odd would be one dressed in one of the ornamental suits found in English mansions which are usually tournament dress anyway, and not for campaign.
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How would he get a breastplate from Constantinople? The Eastern Romans didn't wear plate Armor.