Meaning of manicle | Babel Free

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On armor, a kind of attached mail glove or gauntlet.

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“[Footnotes:] impossible: Gawain clearly considers his pledge to be as binding as an oath. gauntlets: strictly speaking, manicles would in this case be chainmail mittens.”

“The sergents, in place⟳ of the hauberk, wore a smaller hauberk called a haubergeon without manicles - the attached mail glove - an iron⟳ cap in place⟳ of the helmet, and nail leggings without foot-protectors (see⟳ Contanine, p.69).”

“One implication of “deliverance” is release⟳ from the bondage of the mind⟳, nicely summed up by William Blake's “mindforg'd manicles” (102). When the mind⟳ is unaware of its enslavement, emancipation is impossible.”

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