Vincent Le Chevalier wrote: |
I wonder if handedness is significant in all situations? I mean, from the examples cited this far, it seems that it's discussed mainly in duelling (hence maybe a greater importance in rapier manuals). In battle, techniques change, maybe then being right or left handed is less important than being "like all the other guys in my rank" |
Of course. I honestly think a left-handed man in a shieldwall would still have held his shield in the left hand and his weapon in the right just so that he wouldn't disrupt the alignment of shields, since in battle a shield was meant to protect his friends as much as himself.
Except if the whole first rank was composed of left-handed men, of course--but I don't think that was a popular tactical paradigm. ;)