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10 décembre 2020
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Ralph Moffat, « Crying over spilt Castlemilk: The Tale of Sir William and the Silver Sallet Part 2 », Martial Culture in Medieval Town, ID : 10.58079/r90f
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The second instalment this six-part essay identifies the most likely owner of the silver sallet. It explains why he, his kinsmen, and many of his compatriots were to be found in France’s urban centres at a critical juncture in the Hundred Years War. A Desperate Dauphin To say that Charles’s fortunes were at a low ebb by the start of the siege of Orléans in October of 1428 would be far too generous. A fairer oceanic metaphor would be that his fortunes were stranded in mudflats facing a ru...