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The errors are not neccesarily wrong, just duplications, so may or may not be correct!So, they just need double checking.
The simple answer to this is no. It was a real bling era. We would blush today at how gaudy their tastes were. After all, in a society where your social status is everything, you will make every effort to display it! ?
Spoken like a true wargamer ! If I may offer my modest opinion: what we do is painting movies. Since real warfare is just an ugly violence, why should we waste beautiful sculpted figures by painting them realistic ? How lovely it is to see a line of infantry (or cavalry !) in all their beautiful original colours, not covered in mud and blood (to say nothing of shit and entrails ). So let's keep everything completely unrealistic ! I for one will certainly try to obtain the book the OP showed.
I was always given to understand that the primary purpose of heraldry was to identify its bearer on the battlefield. Given that, I find it incredible that the men-at-arms/knights would not have had their heraldry on them in a battle.
So to find out what happened to any particular knight would have required the heralds to scour a few square miles of mud and filth hoping to find a surviving heraldic device with a body but even then what does that tell them? - that the chap may or may not be dead assuming the device belonged to the stripped body they did find.
I don't think anyone is saying that, unless I've missed something? (Quite possible!)Which is why we have so little evidence for who was present at the major battles, sieges etc of the HYW and many other conflicts. Makes it simultaneously both infuriating and interesting
...I’ve sometimes wondered about this. If ‘knights’ wore their full arms on shields or surcoats, why isn’t their identification and/or placement easier, indeed why do you need a herald to do it? Is it possible that they didn’t wear expensively decorated equipment into battle where it’s going to be covered in mud and shit and saved that stuff for tournaments and travelling? And that as painters and visual game players we just like colourful looking figures?Or just that all the pretty looking stuff is looted well before the heralds get around to putting a dainty foot on the battlefield?
I sort of thought that this was saying that:Hence my post.