No, actually, *I* did.
>> > Note that I count
>> > those wacky Tournament helmets with all sorts of crests worn during
>> the
>> > later Middle Ages as "ceremonial" - you wouldn't have found those in
>> the
>> > middle of a for-real battle, or even the melee at the tournament.
>
> My understanding is that those decorations on the medieval helms were
> paper mache, made to be smashed and offer no hold for a weapon.
Yes, but you still didn't wear them to war. No matter how frail and delicate they are, you don't want a papier mache crest flopping into your eyeslits at an inopportune time. Wear 'em to look pretty for the ladies, but when your life is on the line, dump the crest.
RR
He was born with the gift of laughter and the sense that the world was mad
R. Sabatini, Scaramouche
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