• HenriVolney
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    In the 18th Century, it should be more a type of pageantry armor

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      Funny enough, this was part of a brief revival

      The Gothic Revival and the rise of Romanticism of the late 18th and early 19th centuries were an international phenomenon. Medieval-style jousts, for example, were regularly held in Sweden between 1777 and 1800.[6]

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        TIL, thanks mate! I guess people have always longed for the good’old days…