Today we take a brief look at how armored combatants may have used a weapon like a glaive. Polearms like this are pictured extensively in manuscripts and marginalia of the 14th and 15th centuries in Western Europe, usually as a weapon associated with armored warriors of relatively high class. Although we are not aware of any fighting books that specifically reference how to fight with a glaive, their use was certainly similar to the use of other polearms of the time, on the use of which we have many valuable instructions.
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