Maurice Keen

And again, this is being done at Camelot in front of Guinevere.

So to quote Maurice Keen, great Oxford historian who once interviewed me for Oxford-

He interviewed me.

Oh, interviewed me as well.

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so that it will protect you against the impact of hitting someone with your lance, and you have a horse that's bred for strength, for aggression, so the greatest of these are called destrier.

And the result is what Maurice Keen in his book on chivalry describes as a human projectile, [laughs] which is a very apt description because you can see the, the success that these human projectiles have when they advance and charge en masse from the success of the First Crusade, which against all the odds, you know, they go from Constantinople, they march their way through hostile territory-

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