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breathingwithnoheir · 5 months
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im sorry but edmund ironside, edward the confessor, harthecnut, and harold harefoot all being half brothers of one another in some fucked up daisy chain family situation is so funny to me. why aren't there more period dramas about this era?? i need a sitcom stat
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gwydpolls · 4 months
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Time Travel Question 34: Medievalish and Earlier 3
These Questions are the result of suggestions from the previous iteration.
This category may include suggestions made too late to fall into the correct earlier time grouping. Basically, I'd already moved on to human history, but I'd periodically get a pre-homin suggestion, hence the occasional random item waaay out of it's time period, rather than reopen the category.
In some cases a culture lasted a really long time and I grouped them by whether it was likely the later or earlier grouping made the most sense with the information I had. (Invention ofs tend to fall in an earlier grouping if it's still open. Ones that imply height of or just before something tend to get grouped later, but not always. Sometimes I'll split two different things from the same culture into different polls because they involve separate research goals or the like).
Please add new suggestions below if you have them for future consideration. All cultures and time periods welcome.
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scotianostra · 1 month
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Ancient Scottish Logboat.
This logboat was discovered in 1960 near the shore of Loch Glashan in Argyll near to to a Crannog. The boat hasn't been carbon dated, as far as I can understand, so the gage is quite vague, ranging from the 1st to the 9th century AD
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medievalistsnet · 4 months
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merovingian-marvels · 11 months
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Dorestad Key
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Keys are a surprising artefact from the Merovingian and Carolingian dynasties. Roman keys are short and rounded and are of high quality. Merovingian keys are longer, thinner and sometimes very weirdly and irregularly shaped.
Carolingian keys become shorter again and are distinguishable by their rounded handles which usually have an openwork cross decoration in them.
Merovingian era keys were in the possession of women, who would wear them from chatelaines down their belts. Wearing keys along with jewelry signified that the woman in question was in charge of the household. She was a free woman and was head of the family house. It would also mean that when the husband left for trade/pillaging, she would be left in complete charge rather than the oldest son or the man’s father.
Keys are closely associated with locks and protecting valuable things from others. Everything a family had: a house, kettle, lands, trade goods, … were under the guard of a woman.
RMO Leiden, the Netherlands
Museum nr: WD 984
Found in Dorestad (Merovingian Era) - Utrecht, The Netherlands
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dwellordream · 10 months
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Recently read your post about each of the kingdom's fighting style and you said the Ironborn had outdated shield wall techniques. So I guess my question is, what makes it outdated, and is there a difference from an ancient Greek Hoplite phalanx vs a Norman shield wall?
So the issue with the Ironborn relying on shield walls - a military strategy that was characteristic of the Early Midde Ages - is that they are almost entirely made up of melee infantry (mostly spearmen and axemen) and have relatively few archers and no cavalry. The rest of Westeros have moved on to a Late Medieval paradigm of warfare that stresses a combined arms approach which relies on a mix of knightly cavalry, more advanced melee infantry (men-at-arms, pikemen, etc.), and archers who work in concert, with melee infantry protecting archers from cavalry, archers targeting blocks of infantry, and cavalry attempting to break enemy infantry often by attacking from the flanks or rear. A Vikinger-style shieldwall is extremely vulnerable to this Late Medieval army. For one thing, we know that Ironborn don't have the discipline to hold the shieldwall together in the face of a cavalry charge - and when infantry formations break, they can be utterly destroyed as happened at the Battle of Hastings. Moreover, even if the Ironborn could hold their formation, the mere presence of cavalry means they have to stretch their lines to protect their flanks and rear, which means they then have a much thinner line with which to oppose the enemy's infantry.
Likewise, if an army made up entirely of melee infantry shieldwalls come up against large numbers of archers who are supported by knights and/or infantry, they can be absolutely decimated as the archers easily target their slow-moving tightly-packed formations who can't retaliate out of fear of counter-attack from the cavalry, as happened at the Battle of Falkirk.
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As to the difference between shieldwalls and phalanxes, I answered that question here.
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gwydionmisha · 9 months
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mourama · 9 months
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Capela de São Frutuoso de Montélios | Chapel of Saint Fructuosus of Montélios (Portugal)
This early Middle Ages chapel is located in Real, Braga, and it is a unique example of Roman-Byzantine art in Portugal. It features a centralized area, with four apses articulated around a quadrangular cross (Greek cross). Right next to it, the Convent of São Francisco, from the 17th century, maintained the chapel as an annex. The monastic complex around was much larger, as it was the religious center of the region at the time. At the beginning of the 16th century, it would have succumbed, when the works of rebuilding the Monastery were carried out by the Franciscans.
The date of construction is not clear, but the chronology goes around the beginning of the 10th century, when the cult of the bishop Fructuosus was renewed, within the scope of the repopulation of King Afonso III of Portugal. During the Visigoth period, Fructuosus, the Bishop of Dumio and Archbishop of Braga (died in 665), chose to be buried there, in the 60s of the 7th century. The site of the chapel was, around 560 A.D., the location of a small Roman villa and, likely, a temple dedicated to the god Asclepius. The toponym "Montélios" means "Monte Pequeno" (small hill).
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wooden object interpreted as an early slavic ritual mask
found in Opole
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warclad · 1 year
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Work on the belt continues. Got it nice and flat! The construction is inspired by early medieval belts.
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feelingstoo · 1 year
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Dolce & Gabbana a/i 2013/14
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fleetshotter-minstrel · 3 months
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scotianostra · 1 month
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Ancient Scottish Longboat.
This logboat was discovered in 1960 near the shore of Loch Glashan in Argyll near to to a Crannog. The boat hasn't been carbon dated, as far as I can understand, so the gage is quite vague, ranging from the 1st to the 9th century AD
It's over 3 metres long, so nothing like the length of longboats from the Scandinavian "Viking" countries.
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medievalistsnet · 2 months
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wylanzahn · 3 months
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Not me totally obsessing over the Anglo-Saxon Period of England (roughly from start of the 5th Century to the arrival of the Normans in 1066 AD) while work is slow… no… not at all.
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