27 avril 2021
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Ralph Moffat, « Crying over spilt Castlemilk: The Tale of Sir William and the Silver Sallet Part 6 », Martial Culture in Medieval Town, ID : 10.58079/r90r
In this sixth and final part we discover the fate of both our protagonist and his silver sallet. This, in turn, opens up a wider debate as to the fate of so much of the martial material culture of the period. A Bloody Red Herring Sir William would never return to redeem his sallet. He, his big brother Sir John, and the vast majority of his countrymen fell in the sair fecht against the Auld Innemie. At Rouvray on 12 February 1429 a Franco-Scots force sought to cut off a supply train loade...