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Jousting is the most iconic form of mounted combat. For more than five hundred years, the sport itself, and the chivalric culture that surrounded it, took on al

The story of arms in Western Europe from the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution.

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Ground-breaking new studies of Henry V's chapel, tomb and funeral service have new revelations and insights into the time.