Medieval Flails
Medieval Flails Building on the "nunchucks are stupid" this week I take a look at the "Medieval Flail", a weapon that has seen some controversy regarding it's historical accuracy, with some convinced it's nothing more than a Victorian fallacy, with the aim to "sex up" the Medieval ages with a strange and unusual weapon. Essentially taking the premise of the mace, but separating the striking head from the shaft by way of a chain, this certainly looks a daunting weapon to be facing off against. While there is some examples of it being used in history in the late medieval period, with some artwork showing it's usage from around the end of the medieval period and the start of the early Renascence, there's little in the way of written accounts from the time, or surviving artefacts that haven't later been proven to be from later periods. Even the accuracy of the artwork has been called into question as the depictions don't tend to sh