<story><title>In Medieval Europe, No Outfit Was Complete Without a Personal Eating Knife</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/medieval-knives</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>beat</author><text>Steven Pinker talks about this in his book &lt;i&gt;Better Angels of our Nature&lt;/i&gt;. Ending the habit of personal eating knives was part of the &amp;quot;civilizing process&amp;quot; that drastically reduced the murder rate in Europe, because people stopped walking around armed quite so much.</text></comment>
<story><title>In Medieval Europe, No Outfit Was Complete Without a Personal Eating Knife</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/medieval-knives</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thrower123</author><text>My redneck is showing, but I feel a little naked if I go out the door without either my Leatherman or my Mercator in my pocket.  I have even been known to pull it out and use it as an eating knife from time to time...</text></comment>