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![]() Misconceptions and Questions Relating to Armor The following text will attempt to correct some of the most popular misconceptions, and to answer some of the questions most frequently asked by the public during guided tours of the Museum’s arms and armor galleries. Among these, the lance rest, an object protruding from the proper right side of many breastplates, probably holds first place. In other instances, certain technical details that escape an obvious explanation have become the focus of lurid and fantastically imaginative attempts to explain their original function. ![]() Perhaps the most infamous example is the notion that “knights had to be hoisted into their saddles with a crane,” which is as absurd as it is persistent even among many historians. Most of them are utter nonsense, devoid of any historical base. Their origins usually are to be found in a lack of knowledge of, and experience with, genuine objects and their historical background. The field of arms and armor is beset with romantic legends, gory myths, and widely held misconceptions.
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