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Karen Watts

Karen Watts is Senior Curator of Art and Armour at the Royal Armouries Museum based in Leeds.

General areas of interest:

• Medieval and Renaissance armour
• Medieval dress and textiles
• Medieval to modern fine art
• Medieval to modern French military history

Current areas of interest:

• Tournaments and chivalry
• Wire-drawing
• The Bayeux Tapestry
• Arms and armour in/as art
• Mannerist armour
• The Knights of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St John of Jerusalem, Malta.