The Manner of Arming Knights for the Tourney: A Re-Interpretation of an Important Early 14th-Century Arming Treatise

Moffat, Ralph

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“…An "Arming Treatise" entitled the Manner of Arming Knights for the Tourney (f.86v and 87 from BL Additional MS 46919), believed to have been compiled by Fr William Herebert of Hereford (d. 1333 or 1337) in the early 14th century, describes flails in the equipment of knights during tournaments (Moffat 2010). The type of flail mentioned here is not specified, but this suggests that flails were at least used in tournament settings.…”

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Fantastic Flails and Where to Find Them: The Body of Evidence for the Existence of Flails in the Early and High Medieval Eras in Western, Central, and Southern Europe

Holdsworth

2024

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Flails are one of the most contentious and misunderstood classes of medieval weaponry, despite their prevalence in popular media: some researchers question their existence entirely and the bulk of historians are skeptical of widespread temporal and geographical prevalence, while others, and a significant volume of period evidence, would argue the contrary. While the expansive use of flails in Eastern Europe and Byzantium is familiar, many Central, Western, and Southern European sources are less well known or largely forgotten, especially those stemming from the later-early and early high medieval eras (up to 1250). In this work, I collate and discuss the bulk of the available literary references and artistic depictions of flails and their use alongside some of the archaeological finds from Western, Central, and Southern Europe, with an emphasis on the 12th and 13th centuries. The significance of this volume of evidence is examined, and an assessment of flails as a part of medieval culture and warfare is considered. Collectively, this would suggest that knowledge of flails as instruments of war and associated cultural connotations, if not their actual prevalence and use in warfare, was far more widespread across Europe this time period than has been previously estimated.

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“…The type of flail mentioned here is not specified, but this suggests that flails were at least used in tournament settings. Note the use of the Latin-derived term "flagellu", rather than the modern French "fléau", which posed challenges in translating this piece (Moffat 2010).…”

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Fantastic Flails and Where to Find Them: The Body of Evidence for the Existence of Flails in the Early and High Medieval Eras in Western, Central, and Southern Europe

Holdsworth

2024

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“…More on weapons and armour in cavalry can be found in Mondschein (2015Mondschein ( , 2011, Clements (2007), Sidnell (2006: 313-317), Ascherl (1988), Nickel (1988: esp. 218-226), Meyer (1982: 147-152), andMoffat (2013), Fallows (2010), Barker (1986: 179-180) for weapons in tournament.…”

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The horse, the rider, the word : A Frame Semantics approach to Middle English equestrian terminology

Limpert

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This book applies the concept of Frame Semantics to a historical stage of the English language. Such an application has not been practised extensively yet. In this book the research subject is the Middle English equestrian vocabulary, that is, the terminology that was used to express all concepts connected to riding horses. In the field of historical semantics the crucial challenge lies in coping with the temporal distance limiting the source material as well as in bridging a conceptual distance separating whole mindsets. The gap between societies being run by horsepower versus oil and electricity is only the most obvious in the context of this book. Other aspects like social hierarchy, belief and living conditions have to be accounted for just as much. From whatever angle one wants to approach the meaning of words used in different historical stages, one needs to find a tertium comparationis or a whole structure of carefully linked comparable invariables. Providing exactly the tools for such a reference point, the concept of Frame Semantics was chosen as the methodical backbone of this project. Besides testing the applicability of Frame Semantics to uncover the semantic details of Middle English vocabulary, this book also aims to acquaint the present-day reader with the intricacies of equestrianism. Hence, the book is meant to assist readers in understanding a horse-based culture like that of medieval England from a modern viewpoint.

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The Manner of Arming Knights for the Tourney: A Re-Interpretation of an Important Early 14th-Century Arming Treatise

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Fantastic Flails and Where to Find Them: The Body of Evidence for the Existence of Flails in the Early and High Medieval Eras in Western, Central, and Southern Europe

Fantastic Flails and Where to Find Them: The Body of Evidence for the Existence of Flails in the Early and High Medieval Eras in Western, Central, and Southern Europe

The horse, the rider, the word : A Frame Semantics approach to Middle English equestrian terminology

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