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Random musings on medieval knighthood, military history, wargaming, and dressing up in armour.
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.