Low price sex chat & Live sex chat gratuit belgique: The wicked Knight

puszcza: Crivelli's Saint Michael, 1476

puszcza:

Crivelli's Saint Michael, 1476

colourthysoul: Louis Gallait - Joanna the Mad with Philip I the...

colourthysoul:

Louis Gallait - Joanna the Mad with Philip I the Handsome

Photo

timbopvfc: Warwick castle

timbopvfc:

Warwick castle

timbopvfc: More pics of inside the castle

timbopvfc:

More pics of inside the castle

seelenklempner: Portrait of a Knight of the order of St....

seelenklempner:

Portrait of a Knight of the order of St. Stephen by Michele Tosini a.k.a. Michele di Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio

adriofthedead: My favorite part to any film, ever

adriofthedead:

My favorite part to any film, ever

What she says: I'm fine

What she says: I'm fine
What she means: In the year of our Lord 1314, patriots of Scotland, starving and outnumbered, charged the fields of Bannockburn. They fought like warrior poets. They fought like Scotsmen. And won their freedom.

Photo

signorcasaubon: Giovanni Baglione - The Divine Eros Defeats the...

signorcasaubon:

Giovanni Baglione - The Divine Eros Defeats the Earthly Eros; Gemaldegalerie der Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany; 1602

"There is something to be learned from a rainstorm. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to..."

"There is something to be learned from a rainstorm. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet and run quickly along the road. But doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses, you still get wet. When you are resolved from the beginning, you will not be perplexed, though you will still get the same soaking. This understanding extends to everything."

- Yamamoto Tsunetomo - The Hagakure: A Code to the Way of Samurai (via all-but-gone)

medievallove: Fighting apparel for late medieval knight and...

medievallove:

Fighting apparel for late medieval knight and horse, Musée des Invalides, Paris.

16th c.

Original by Olivier07 on Flickr.

aglossaryoficeandfire: Barding (n.) A piece of armor used to ornament a horse.

aglossaryoficeandfire:

Barding (n.)

A piece of armor used to ornament a horse.

the-wicked-knight: Barding is horse armour. Barding was often...

the-wicked-knight:

Barding is horse armour.

Barding was often used in conjunction with cloth covers known as caparisons. These coverings sometimes covered the entire horse from nose to tail and extended to the ground. It is unclear from period illustrations how much metal defensive covering was used in conjunction. Textile covers may also be called barding. Here's a great resource on the subject:

http://www.bayrose.org/Poppy_Run/horse_barding_web.pdf

greypoppies: Inspiration.

greypoppies:

Inspiration.

Photo

erikkwakkel: The art of war This is a great specimen of a great...

1. Erlangen, Universitätsbibliothek, UER MS B 26, fol. 16r

2. Erlangen, Universitätsbibliothek, UER MS B 26, fol. 54r

3. Erlangen, Universitätsbibliothek, UER MS B 26, fol. 57v

4. Erlangen, Universitätsbibliothek, UER MS B 26, fol. 58r

5. Erlangen, Universitätsbibliothek, UER MS B 26, fol. 100r

6. Erlangen, Universitätsbibliothek, UER MS B 26, fol. Br

7. Erlangen, Universitätsbibliothek, UER MS B 26, fol. 62r

8. Erlangen, Universitätsbibliothek, UER MS B 26, fol. 292v

9. Erlangen, Universitätsbibliothek, UER MS B 26, fol. 297v

erikkwakkel:

The art of war

This is a great specimen of a great genre of books popular in the later Middle Ages. You are looking at images from the Erlangen "Kriegsbuch" (Book of War), which presents texts and images devoted to the art of war. The contents varies greatly, as visible in these images. The book shows how to properly handle a sword (pics 1-2) and how to construct weapons (pics 3, 4, 9). It also depicts what certain weapons looked like. The cannon in pic 5, for example, must have been new to many soldiers. How handy to know to keep your distance from this device! Other images show in detail how to defend clusters of people: pic 7 demonstrates how you can use a circle of wagons for a make-shift castle, while pics 6 and 8 provide the outlines of effective city defences. Combined with the accompanying (meticulous) descriptions, the images provided the late-medieval soldier with the information he needed to do his job - and they did so in an artistic manner.

Pics: Erlangen, Universitätsbibliothek, UER MS B 26 (Kriegsbuch, c. 1500). More information and additional images here (Erlangen images are CC 3.0 according to this webpage).