Board Thread:General Discussion on Baldur's Gate Game/@comment-37492355-20181117060144/@comment-3234315-20181120154921

No, in the shield slot. A difference between the game editions is that the shield slot must be empty when equipping a two-handed weapon in the original games, but can keep its item in the enhanced editions. And – as far as I know – bonuses are still applied in the enhanced eds in this case, even if not actively using the item from the shield slot. But I might be wrong …