• Arming the citizens : a crossbow distribution inventory

  Martial Culture in Medieval Town Jul 24, 2022 | 01:52 am

  Like other towns in the Holy Roman Empire, Fribourg relied on its citizens to defend its walls during war. Moreso, possessing enough military equipment was essential for its inhabitants. The town itself stored a large quantity of small arms and armour in its arsenals, which had to be distributed to fighters during sieges and before military expeditions. To be able to retrieve the distributed weapons, the municipal authorities produced weapon inventories to trace the lent items. In this article, such an inventory will be … Continue reading Arming the citizens : a crossbow distribution inventory

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• Protected: [1TSL2] Bugnon Altarretabel / Le retable du Bugnon (Hans Fries, 1505)

  Martial Culture in Medieval Town Jul 8, 2022 | 21:16 pm

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• Iron Men: Fashion in Steel (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna) 26 March – 26 June [Exhibition review]

  Martial Culture in Medieval Town Jun 23, 2022 | 00:10 am

  Vienna usually spoils visitors with an interest in arms and armour with the Hofjagd und Rustkammer housing one of the best collections of its kind. However, the ‘Iron Men’ exhibition curated by Stefan Krause elevates this experience and offers a unique educational trip on the subject of armour that mainly spans from the 15th to the 16th century. A combination of harnesses, armour parts and art lead the visitor on an amazing journey. The aim of the exhibition is to present the many functions … Continue reading Iron Men: Fashion in Steel (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna) 26 March – 26 June [Exhibition review]

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• ‘Like a nightingale in the cage’: City sieges in the Late Byzantine vernacular Chronicle of Morea

  Martial Culture in Medieval Town May 31, 2022 | 22:47 pm

  The Chronicle of Morea, an early 14th c. poem in Greek vernacular, narrates the conquest of the Peloponnesian castles by the Franks after the Fourth Crusade, revealing the history of the Morea in the 13th and early 14th c., and the social and ethnic identities presented through warfare.

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• The Feud Book of Medieval Nuremberg

  Martial Culture in Medieval Town May 18, 2022 | 23:13 pm

  The Free Imperial City of Nuremberg (Freie Reichsstadt Nürnberg)was one of the more important settlements in Central Europe. Depending on precisely when and how you measure urban populations, during the late medieval period it was one of the top five to ten in terms of size, with a population of roughly 22,000 denizens in 1431, of whom 7,146 were full or partial citizens qualified to bear arms, with 381 priests, and 744 Jews and foreigners[i]. Comparable towns included Cologne, Prague, Wroclaw, Strasbourg, Frankfurt am … Continue reading The Feud Book of Medieval Nuremberg

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