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Les genz de Rubempré

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Solid tip historical jousting at St Ives Medieval Faire 2018

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Mail Standard (Collar), 1450, Art Institute of Chicago: Arms, Armor, Medieval, and Renaissance

George F. Harding Collection Medium: Iron and brass

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/116844/

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Genz d'armes 1415

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1453 07 17 Castillon - Graham Turner

repost better quality

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Equipping Medieval Armor

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new art meme: redraw crappy medieval artwork of animals

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Les genz de Rubempré

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BNF Français 268 Ab Urbe Condita, folio 268v. Late 14th century, France.

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Genz d'armes 1415

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Favorite thing about renaissance faires is that they have fuck all to to with the renaissance. This thang is not about historical anything this is about dressing up like a fairy and watching a joust

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A lovely Pollaxe with a pierced blade,

OaL: 81.9 in/208 cm

Blade Length: 12.5 in/31.8 cm

Width: 8.25 in/21 cm

Weight: 5.4 lbs/2466.4 g

Burgundy, ca. 1450, housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Parzival is a high medieval story, featuring king Arthur and the holy grail. It was written in Germany close to the year 1200. At that time knights were fighting in mail armour which they refer to as harness in the epos - not hauberk. Here is what was found:

1. Knights have rust and dust on them after wearing mail armor. It also stains their undergarments.

2. Knights always have assistance for putting on armour. Yet when abandoned and all alone Parzival is able to put on his harness by him self.

3. The harness has laces and they get frequently checked for wear and tear.

4. The harness has a mail hood that can be opened without taking the armour off.

5. People appreciate shiny mail armour.

And the following is the passage in which the protagonist sees mail armour for the first time. He is a little boy and in his nativity he sees some knights and thinks they are gods:

(English adaptation)

Loud they laughed as the boy spake further, 'Good knight, what may these be?

These rings that so close around thee, above and below I see.'

Then he handled, with curious finger, the armour the knight did bear,

His coat of mail close-linkèd as behovèd a knight to wear;

And he spake as he looked on the harness, 'My mother's maidens string

On their chains, and around their fingers, full many a shining ring,

But they cling not so close to each other as these rings that here I see,

I cannot force them asunder, what good are they then to thee?'

(original:)

aber sprach der knappe sân,

dâ von ein lachen wart getân.

«ay ritter guot, waz mahtu sîn?

du hâst sus manec vingerlîn

an dînen lîp gebunden,

dort oben unt hie unden.»

aldâ begreif des knappen hant

swaz er îsers ame fürsten vant:

dez harnasch begunder schouwen.

«mîner muoter juncfrouwen

ir vingerlîn an snüeren tragnt,

diu niht sus an einander ragnt.»

der knappe sprach durch sînen muot

zem fürsten «war zuo ist diz guot,

daz dich sô wol kan schicken?

ine mages niht ab gezwicken.»

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I was researching medieval weaponry, for a school project, not for writing purposes actually, and stumbled upon these images of various polearms (source), and it occurred to me that they matched Rafal's aesthetic, especially in TLEA, so enjoy, I guess?