Timeline for Does the forearm grip/handshake have a historical basis?
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| Jul 17, 2021 at 16:53 | comment | added | TheHonRose | Roman tunics didn't have sleeves, and togas offered numerous folds in which to conceal a weapon. | |
| Jul 15, 2021 at 17:47 | comment | added | Mac the knife | aren't sleeve daggers are carried in the LEFT sleeve (if you are right-handed)? | |
| Jun 6, 2014 at 22:44 | comment | added | Oldcat | @Vector - Cicero attacked Catiline's followers as the sort who would wear long sleeved tunics. Ceasar was mocked for wearing fringes at the end of his sleeves for a while. Caesar's assassins kept the blades in the sinus of the toga (the pocket fold opposite the draped arm) not strapped to the wrist. | |
| Jun 6, 2014 at 22:06 | comment | added | user2590 | @Oldcat: Not so clear. Check Roman Togas - Images. I would think it depended on the season and the situation, just like today, and also perhaps on one's station in life: A servant might not have sleeves, but a patrician or noble would have them. | |
| Jun 6, 2014 at 21:07 | comment | added | Oldcat | Seems odd that Romans carried knives in sleeves, since the toga and tunic didn't have long sleeves. To kill Emperor Domitian, a servant had to fake an injury to get arm splints to conceal the weapon. | |
| Oct 14, 2013 at 23:59 | history | edited | user2590 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 7, 2013 at 20:28 | history | rollback | Lennart Regebro |
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| Oct 7, 2013 at 18:48 | history | edited | user2590 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 24, 2013 at 1:09 | comment | added | user2590 | @AL13N - Regardless, in this case it means you've asked a very good question. | |
| Sep 23, 2013 at 14:50 | comment | added | AL13N | I seem to have posed a really difficult question to validated with sufficient resources :-)... i'm not exactly sure what to believe here. | |
| Sep 18, 2013 at 16:28 | history | edited | user2590 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 18, 2013 at 16:27 | comment | added | user2590 | @LennartRegebro - LOL. I saw that it was a site about that game - didn't realize that he's talking about his country in the game! Reference removed. | |
| Sep 18, 2013 at 8:11 | comment | added | Lennart Regebro | @Vector: There is such a person, he is playing the Nation-states simulation game. The first reference is by how the website looks, older than 2010, maybe even the 90's. The second two are not. And they are definitely not before the 19th century... :-) | |
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| Sep 18, 2013 at 3:11 | comment | added | user2590 | @T.E.D.- You will have to inquire of Zhōnghuá Mínguó, Diplomat, Republic of China. If your interest is that strong, there apparently is such a person: Go to that page I referred to and look for "Byzantium Imperium", which links to a profile on that site - there is some contact info there. | |
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| Sep 18, 2013 at 1:53 | comment | added | T.E.D.♦ | Hmmm. Any info on this "northern European 'handshake'" from your second quote? | |
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| Sep 18, 2013 at 1:25 | history | answered | user2590 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |