Today:
Welcome to this week's instalment of /r/AskHistorians' Sunday Digest (formerly the Day of Reflection). Nobody can read all the questions and answers that are posted here, so in this thread we invite you to share anything you'd like to highlight from the last week - an interesting discussion, an informative answer, an insightful question that was overlooked, or anything else.
If you're interested in obscure and ancient laws (and who isn't?), I discussed the oldest Act still in force in Scotland and the problems with its interpretation / reconstruction:
/u/cdesmoulins had a great answer to "What kind of costumes have personified concept characters, like Revenge from Kyd's "Spanish Tragedy", worn on stage?". I greatly appreciated their insights!
We had a number of fantastic posts this week, including some that I went back to reread a number of times I liked them so much.
In particular we had some absolutely amazing AMA's, and I really want to thank whoever organises and sets those up, as well as the mods for dealing with that much work.
Let's post some threads!
How hard was it actually to kill a full plate armoured knight? is a fairly popular question I see frequently, but I liked the answers from /u/wotan_weevil and the discussion below. There was also some good answers about fencing manuals with /u/laertes5 some additional discussion with /u/maf_90 that I thought had some good points.