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Sean Flynt
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Benjamin H. Abbott
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| Lafayette C Curtis wrote: | | Don Quixote also has our delusional knight-errant run across a carriage guarded by a pair of sword-and-target men who carried a couple of javelins each. These targeteers played no part in the ensuing narrative (where our poor Don Quixote got into an altercation with another of the carriage's guards), and besides it's fiction anyway, but I have a feeling that we shouldn't entirely discount this late evidence of auxiliary weapons for the rodeleros. |
Thank you. This is exactly the sort of evidence I was looking for. That's intriguing. My one theory for why targetiers with thrown weapons so rarely appear in the sixteenth century is that targetiers excelled in the melee following the push of pike and the press offers little room for hurling javelins. I remember how Bernal Diaz emphasized how Spanish targetiers in Mexico fought shoulder to shoulder. By most accounts, the Romans used a rather more open formation. These factors - along with the difficulty of piercing plate armor - could perhaps explain why the javelin fell into relative obscurity.
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