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Striptease but its a knight in full 14th century harness removing one piece of their armour at a time and it takes forever and no ones really horny by the end of it it’s just really tiring.

“you wanna see whats under these cuisses, well you’ll have to wait 😘”

*fumbling with helmet latch* “give me a minute hold on”

“if i can just reach this fucking buckle man i swear— ok thats the spaulders off”

*shuffling awkwardly out of hauberk* “god this fucking thing”

*out of breath and visibly exhausted, bits of harness scattered around* “whatever just get me out these hosen already”

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'A golden ram and a stone lion, unearthed from a tomb at the ancient archaeological site of Gonur Depe in Turkmenistan, dating back to 2400-1600 BC.'

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of course it goes without saying that i am deeply dependent on my illuminated manuscript

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Y'all ever open a book on a new subject, read a little bit, and have to put it back so you can process the way in which your mind was just expanded?

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This made my brain go brr, therefore it’ll make your brain go brr too if you’re following me <3

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British Library Add MS 62925 f.50v

Man carrying an animal on his back

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How a Man Shall be Armed, Italy ca. 1415

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Most hoard images from Wikipedia.

Found with the rest of the hoard, the handaxe pictured above was probably found either while digging his own hole for the treasure or maybe earlier in a precious bout of hoarding by some Romano-Briton who thought it was cool enough to bury along with all of his coins and Juliane's bracelet, because cool rock. This was absolutely the correct move.

Article here from Smithsonian Magazine.

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Fairytale Lesbians by Arun

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BNF Français 343 Queste del Saint Graal / Tristan de Léonois, 1380-1385

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what do you even know about knights

hate mail from year 1400

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I FCUKING LOVE HOUNDSKULLS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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the wrong way to ride a horse

maastritcht hours, c. 1300-25

the british library, stowe ms 17, f.153v

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Roman kitchenware. Found in Pompeii

surprisingly similar to things of our time

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[Image description: Henric, an androgynous white person, sits in a brick alcove in medieval dress, posing camply with their hand under their chin and looking off-camera.]

Hey folks!

(Sorry for the crappy image resolution, it was dark and my friend's phone camera was doing its best)

Finding Instagram deeply soul-destroying lately so thought I'd come back to the cockroach social media that refuses to die.

I'm Henric (they/them), I turn 30 this year (which is terrifying), and I'm a SCAdian/ reenactor based in the UK. I love all things medieval and early modern Europe, and make a lot of fifteenth century Burgundian clothing and related accoutrements.

I go by Noble Henric van den Casteele in the Society for Creative Anachronism, but you can call me Henric.

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I think it would be so funny if there was a show about King Arthur and the knight of the Round Table where a different knight(s) joins the Round Table every episode and it gets to the point where the cast is like 500 people and absolutely no one is acknowledging that there are like 400 people in this court. Like a gratuitous amount of knights. The plot randomly pivots to knight or knights of the week and then back but it’s not an anthology exactly. Some of them die the same day they join, some randomly disappear from the story and others are technically there for the rest of the series but doing fuckall. Occasionally Arthur will be like “Where has Sir Whatever gone?” and everyone will shrug. Very important quest surrounding the major knights you’re expecting and a minor knight no one has seen for 5 seasons randomly joins in. You need a knightly spreadsheet to join in.