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Or maybe it was copied from the Muslims in Syria? It is widely known that the European had much less advanced techniques of siege warfare in the Middle Ages, being more used to field battles, hence the importance and good quality of their standing army.
For the Muslims siege was the main type of warfare, and machicolations can be seen here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel_of_Aleppo
I'm not sure how good Wikipedia is as a source(!) but further down on that page it also attests that machicolations were present in the Crusading period.
I will try and find some better proof but my feeling is that machicolations were not a 'Norman' invention. I'm fairly certain they would have been developed in the Middle East. Louboi ( talk) 09:19, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
Change it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.23.111.242 ( talk) 19:30, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
As I came across multiple articles which used the French term "machicoulis" I went ahead and created a
name redirect page "machicoulis" and then added the term to the
lede of this (Machicolation) article. I'd forgotten the official template for noting that a word is in a specific foreign language so I 'fudged' it with...
([[French language |<small>French</small>,]] '''machicoulis''')
...which rendered as...
( French, machicoulis)
If you know the official template please feel free to correct it. -- Kevjonesin ( talk) 22:05, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
the article mentions "boiling cooking oil" and yet, I can find precious little evidence this was ever used. boiling water or the devastating mixture of boiling water and ale is attested to. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 40.142.208.163 ( talk) 22:12, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
There is a bit of debate as to the correct pronunciation, and in all that argy-bargey someone discovered a reference to "matchicold" in the french Morte d'Artur. Note the "t".
Caveats abound.
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Or maybe it was copied from the Muslims in Syria? It is widely known that the European had much less advanced techniques of siege warfare in the Middle Ages, being more used to field battles, hence the importance and good quality of their standing army.
For the Muslims siege was the main type of warfare, and machicolations can be seen here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel_of_Aleppo
I'm not sure how good Wikipedia is as a source(!) but further down on that page it also attests that machicolations were present in the Crusading period.
I will try and find some better proof but my feeling is that machicolations were not a 'Norman' invention. I'm fairly certain they would have been developed in the Middle East. Louboi ( talk) 09:19, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
Change it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.23.111.242 ( talk) 19:30, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
As I came across multiple articles which used the French term "machicoulis" I went ahead and created a
name redirect page "machicoulis" and then added the term to the
lede of this (Machicolation) article. I'd forgotten the official template for noting that a word is in a specific foreign language so I 'fudged' it with...
([[French language |<small>French</small>,]] '''machicoulis''')
...which rendered as...
( French, machicoulis)
If you know the official template please feel free to correct it. -- Kevjonesin ( talk) 22:05, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
the article mentions "boiling cooking oil" and yet, I can find precious little evidence this was ever used. boiling water or the devastating mixture of boiling water and ale is attested to. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 40.142.208.163 ( talk) 22:12, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
There is a bit of debate as to the correct pronunciation, and in all that argy-bargey someone discovered a reference to "matchicold" in the french Morte d'Artur. Note the "t".
Caveats abound.