Fair points about the average height (it is just bizarre for me to see 1.6 meters referred to as "average", without too much context provided).
Though, it also should be noted that the average heights of that time - from what I've been told by people of the field and read myself - mainly came from (occasionally rather severe) malnutrition. That, in turn, meant that there was a glaring rift between the average height of the common peasant and that of the higher class people - in that the higher class people actually had heights somewhat similar to people of our time, and only the peasants were distinctly short compared to modern humans. (Makes sense in other ways, too - genetic influences would hardly change that much in mere half a dozen generations.)
- And indeed, if you look at the original armors of that time - and especially plate armors of that time were almost exclusively worn higher-class people, as you well know and have pointed out yourself in the past -, then many of those would actually fit a person of around my height just fine. (Not my over-two-meter-tall male cousins, though; no antique plate armor for them.)
(By the way, as you might have already gathered from my sheet - my personal character actually used to be noticeably shorter in life, even if she was considered tall and sturdy in there, too.)
Though, it also should be noted that the average heights of that time - from what I've been told by people of the field and read myself - mainly came from (occasionally rather severe) malnutrition. That, in turn, meant that there was a glaring rift between the average height of the common peasant and that of the higher class people - in that the higher class people actually had heights somewhat similar to people of our time, and only the peasants were distinctly short compared to modern humans. (Makes sense in other ways, too - genetic influences would hardly change that much in mere half a dozen generations.)
- And indeed, if you look at the original armors of that time - and especially plate armors of that time were almost exclusively worn higher-class people, as you well know and have pointed out yourself in the past -, then many of those would actually fit a person of around my height just fine. (Not my over-two-meter-tall male cousins, though; no antique plate armor for them.)
(By the way, as you might have already gathered from my sheet - my personal character actually used to be noticeably shorter in life, even if she was considered tall and sturdy in there, too.)