Mmmm...

I should have added these comments to this post. Never mind, here they are now.

Put simply, armour is gender neutral. Protection from pointy death is also gender neutral.

It’s female armour if there’s a woman in it, it’s male armour if there’s a man in it - and it’s mail(le) armour if it looks like this…

There’s no historical evidence for European armour ever having big holes or specially-shaped plates to show there was a woman inside. There is, however, plenty of evidence of specially-shaped plates to show there was a man inside.

The specially-shaped plate is called a brayette, and it looks like this…

The side view is even more imposing…

How useful - somewhere to hang your helmet.

There’s this…

…and this…

…and lots of others, including this one…

…which needs more explanation than the average book on armour can provide.

Prompt 4: Arthur and Merlin

⒈Behind the Scenes: About the show

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04183vt

⒉Behind the Scenes: Nathan & Charlotte Appleby

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04183vr