06-07-2009, 10:56 AM
Development of the lance in the Medieval sense, of course, depended on the introduction of the hard stirrup. Without it, the rider had to use the lance as a spear or risk unseating himself. (Introduction of the stirrup is discussed here somewhere.)
"Fugit irreparabile tempus" (Irrecoverable time glides away) Virgil
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