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Random musings on medieval knighthood, military history, wargaming, and dressing up in armour.
The Battle of Monmouth. (No, not that one… the other one!)
This is a story about a battle you have heard of… but it isn’t that battle…
The chief protagonist of which is Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, but not that Marshal Earl of Pembroke…
It was fought as part of a baronial rebellion aimed at controlling a king… but it isn’t that rebellion.
The Ploughed Fields of Agincourt.
I was reading something about medieval landscapes recently, for the course I teach on castles, and came across a description of medieval ridge-and-furrow ploughland that completely changed my mental picture of the battlefield of Agincourt.
![Vng petit bec de faulcon A une main pour vng capp[itai]ne…](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec647a042b9b43d7011699c/1706104187040-2809ADILHXIAAXEU9NRE/eMuseumPlus.jfif)
Vng petit bec de faulcon A une main pour vng capp[itai]ne…
Leafing through Ralph Moffat’s excellent new volume, I found an intriguing reference to ‘a small bec de faulcon for one hand, for a captain’. This got me thinking about the use of weapons as symbols of command.
Six Things I Have Learnt from Wearing Armour.
I’ve been wearing my armour a lot this summer. Here are six things that I have learnt from doing so.
This Historian’s Harness
I’ve wanted armour since I was a child, but how did I come to choose the style that I did?