Судан и Большой Ближний Восток

262 III. Судан и его соседи a knight — or even a fully armoured sergeant — had no right to flee, as his armour gave him a full protection in the hand-to-hand combat, though the same sergeant had a right to retreat when he had no armour. 1 It was considered as a necessary feature of a brave warrior to have his mail shirt damaged in many places during the battle. “I know full well that you are a coward: your coat of mail is neither pierced nor torn, and neither your head nor arms are wounded,” said Bueves de Commarchis to his son Girart. 2 The latter indicates a typicality of receiving a number of sword-strokes without blade going deep into the body. The same effect manifested itself in the case of the Crusaders taken prisoners after the battle of Hattin in 1187. The Arabs were astonished when they found out that most of the “killed” knights were in fact merely exhausted, many of them were even not wounded at all, only bruised. has been found against newweapons.”G. le Breton, Philippide , 11: v. 129–132. [Verbruggen J. F. The Art of Warfare in Western Europe during the Middle Ages (from the 8th C. to 1340). Amsterdam, 1977. P. 64]. 1 La règle du Temple, c. 172. [Verbruggen J. F. Op. cit. P. 63]. 2 Le siège de Barbastre, v. 2287–2289. [Verbruggen J. F. Op. cit. P. 64]. Fig. 19. Mongol warriors, line drawing after a miniature of Rashid al-Din’s “World History” (Ms. Or. 20 of the Edinburgh University Library, 706 AH/ 1306–7 AD)