Medieval Warfare Magazine

Symbolic armours

rmours were a symbolic category of objects that could evoke the layered significance of their contexts of use. Distinctive forms, or joust of peace, usually using blunted, coronel-shaped lance tips. This association could extend to the courtly contexts in which such jousts took place and the rarefied aristocrat ic ancestry of their participants.

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