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German language scholarship and armour 500-1100

Excuse me to ask, especially as I am not sure this lies within your range of interests... but this is a matter I lack the necessary knowledge of German for. I do suspect that German language sources might confirm or infirm whether what is called in English ringmail, that is armour made of metal rings or small plates affixed side by side on a supporting garment was truly used during Merovingian and Carolingian times. I'm looking for sources that would specifically distinguish such armour from scale armour that is, overlapping plates affixed on the garment and chainmail, where the metal rings are interlaced together to form a mesh. I know chainmail has been used from times before christian era, but my sources hint that it's use decreased significantly during the dark ages, in favour of the ringmail that was less labour intensive and required less metal. English scholarship seems to ignore it all and decrees that all armour used by Germanic people and in Western and Northern Europe from the beginning of christian era, and the development of plate mail in the late 1300s was chainmail. So I'd like to know what the German speaking world says about this period of our history. --Svartalf 19:00, 23 April 2006 (UTC)


Pope Pius XII

I know we've had our disagreements on this article in the past, but I'd like to invite you to come back to the article and read over it again. Your user page says you are a historian, and I have been unable to find sufficient information on:

  1. Pius's canonization track--I know that he is now Venerable (step 2) but I was unable to find any information like which Pope's had promoted him to each level and whether there is any verifiable information on how that process is proceeding.
  2. Pius's postwar activities--I know that he was quite instrumental in the Cold War, but the only author who discusses this in depth is Phayer and he makes the error reading Pius's Cold War activities as intertwined with his calls for amnesty to war criminals (unfortunately, because he quotes uncritically other historians who later went on to place Pius in a conspiracy with Stalin and Hitler, most other works I have read regard this portion of his work as erronious, although his book is otherwise highly regarded).
  3. The Pontifical Aid Commission--although it gets 147,000 google hits, they are all copy-and-paste jobs from this site which I have found to be unreliable given their very selective summary of his "profile". The PAC is not listed in the index of any of the 11 books on Pius that I currently have in my possession. I you know of any published sources which discuss it, it seems like it might be a significant omission.

In addition to these three things, I would also obviously like your feedback on the more controversial sections. I think that we should dump the "Other views" section, along with the deluge of information which is not germane to Pius into a subartile perhaps titled Pope Pius XII and World War II, Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust, Catholic Church and World War II, or Catholic Church and the Holocaust, whichever seems more appropriate (I would favor creating the later two no matter what and the first two only if there so much information which is too tangential for the main Pope Pius XII article that we need them as daughter articles for the last two.

In addition to commenting on the articles, could you please hit me back on my talk page, by email, or on AIM (c6o6s6m6o). I think this article is close to Featured Article status if we can get the three main omissions that I mentioned hammered out as well as the more controversial sections. savidan 18:48, 2 May 2006 (UTC)