CathHanley *extremely* niche medievalist tweet: I’ve just read again that Margaret of Beverley ‘wore a breastplate like a man’ at the siege of Jerusalem in 1187. This always gets me, as breastplates were not worn: C12th armour was mail. So I tracked down the original Latin, and guess what?
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