King Rene's Tournament Book

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King Rene's Tournament Book

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I hadn't realized it before (perhaps I was sleeping), but I just learned that the clubs in the manuscripts were to replicate maces, not swords.

http://www.princeton.edu/~ezb/rene/renehome.html#book

They also limited the weight on these, as well as the blunted and rebated swords.
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