A slightly rainy Piazza today saw some fascinating talks on falconry as it would have been practised in Henry's court.
The husband-and-wife team of Raphael Falconry, Britain's only historical falconers, appeared in period costume - and accompanied by a couple of their birds.
It's not an activity for the faint of heart, as Mike Raphael told us while flashing his half-moon knife: the falconer has to routinely dispatch (that is, kill with gruesome efficiency) anything the bird has caught, lest it injure the bird in its struggle.
You can read a blogger's report on the event at Nikki's Adventures in Europe.