Were knights’ lances practical weapons, or were they just for sports?
07.06.2025 09:03
Some were practical weapons, used in battle or for fights potentially to the death (the medieval term was ‘a l’outrance’, meaning ‘to the limit’); they had sharp points. Others, made for friendly jousts “a plaisir’, (‘for fun’), had a head with a ring of short prongs, called a coronet.