#medieval times

[texaschainsawmascara]

jprgd on ig

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[bricktoygrapher]

The battle dwarf and his trusty steed 🐴

#the battle dwarf #medieval times #medieval fantasy #lego #lego photography #legophotography #legophoto #toy photography #toyphotography #toyphoto #toy photoshoot #brickcentral #legominifigures #lego minifigures #minifigs #minifig photography #outdoor toy photography #photographers on tumblr #toyartistry #toycommunity #toyphotogallery

[kbeescraft]

after work hangout 🌙

#Halloween #fall #harold… #lgbtq #kbeescraft #medieval #plague doctor #beekeeping #art #artists on tumblr #character art #character concept #happy fall #happy halloween #digital painting #costume #medieval times #spooky season #goth #art history #romantic academia #dark academia #lgbtqia #illustration #queer #lesbian #valentines day #stars #valentine’s day #happy valentine's day

[hometoursandotherstuff]

#medieval times #other stuff

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Bad King Richard got rich by exploiting workers at King’s Faire

Next Tuesday (Oct 31) at 10hPT, the Internet Archive is livestreaming my presentation on my recent book, The Internet Con.

King Richard's Faire is the largest renfaire in New England, and its owner, Dick Shapiro, extracts a reported $400k/day – a sum that is only possible thanks to systematic and likely illegal worker misclassification, which lets him pay performers sub-minimum wages and deny them benefits:

https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/172267v/kings_faire_inc_aim%C3%A9e_bonnie_shapiro_nets_over/

Many of the performers at KRF are absolutely unpaid – these are the "villagers" – who mill about looking picturesque in exchange for free admission. They even have to buy their own turkey legs.

When the faire is rained out, all workers – "volunteers" and paid workers – are sent home without any compensation. Attendees are also sent home with rain-checks, many of which go unused (there's no refunds in the land of King Richard).

Staff work from 8am to 730pm and are paid a day-rate that works out to $6/hour. After heavy weather events, staff are ordered to show up early to do cleanup, but are not paid for their time. Staff don't get health benefits – instead, local community groups like the Elks put on fundraisers to cover the health-care costs of the performers.

Now, King Richard's worker mistreatment is not an outlier in the medieval reenactment industry. Think of how the knights at Medieval Times – who put on nightly, potentially lethal performances to generate profit for their employer – unionized in the face of exploitative labor relations. To add insult to injury, Medieval Times sued the union, arguing that its name – "Medieval Times Performers United" – was a trademark infringement:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/medieval-times-sues-union-trademark_n_63485fa5e4b0b7f89f54546b

This trademark wheeze is the latest desperate tactic to be deployed by the ruling class in the face of a surging labor movement with broad public support. Starbucks – one of the world's most notorious unionbusters – is doing the same thing to its union, Starbucks Workers United:

https://seattle.eater.com/23923490/starbucks-workers-united-union-lawsuits-copyright-trademark-israel-hamas-palestine-social-media

These moves are wildly out of step with the current of public opinion, which has swung hard for union rights in a manner not seen in generations. The outpourings of public support for striking entertainment industry workers were handwaved away as exceptions driven by the public's love of actors and writers. But that doesn't explain the strong, ongoing support for the UAW in their strike against all of the Big Three automakers:

https://pro.morningconsult.com/instant-intel/uaw-strike-public-opinion-october-2023

Bosses have always tried to smash worker power by dividing workers – by race, gender, or "skill" – but workers are workers and solidarity is the source of worker power. That's why the whole labor movement backed Equity Stripper NoHo, the first strippers' union in a generation:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/14/prop-22-never-again/#norms-code-laws-markets

Creative workers are part of a class of workers who suffer from "vocational awe," the sense that because your job is satisfying and/or worthy, you don't deserve to get paid for it:

https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2018/vocational-awe/

(Think of joke about the father who finds his runaway son at the circus shoveling elephant shit: "Son, come home!" "What, and quit show-business?")

Creative workers have long been encouraged to see themselves as "independent businesspeople" – LLCs with MFAs – and this mind-zap is augmented with our bosses' repeated insistence that the unions are for big burly blue-collar workers, not ethereal dreamers and pencil-pushers. Our bosses tell this story because it discourages us from forming unions and demanding fair pay and good working conditions (obviously).

Think of J Edward Keyes, the cartoon villain who serves as editorial director of Bandcamp. When the workers Keyes managed formed the Bandcamp United union, Keyes called them "white-collar tech workers…appropriating the language of the legitimately oppressed," adding "Fuuuuuck Bandcamp United":

https://www.404media.co/bandcamp-editorial-director-fuuuuuck-bandcamp-united/

Keyes's contempt notwithstanding, it's clear why Bandcamp workers need a union – after the company was flipped twice in rapid succession, its new owners, Epic Games and Songtradr, fired all its unionized workers. Keyes responded to coverage of this mass firing by calling the Pitchfork reporters who wrote about it "absloute amateur journalists."

The attempt to divide-and-rule "knowledge workers" from "industrial workers" is a transparent bid to shatter solidarity and make it easier to abuse and exploit all workers. Thankfully, workers are wise to that gambit, and understand that when all kinds of workers struggle together, they win.

Take the UAW strikes: for many years, the UAW was an objectively bad union, ruled over by a dirty-tricking clique who sold out the membership. It's normal to blame workers for bad leaders, but the UAW old guard had rigged union elections, making sure that they would stay in charge. It's not workers that like corrupt unions – it's bosses.

Before the UAW could fight back against their bosses, they had to fight back their bosses' minions in the upper ranks of their own union. That's where the the Harvard Grad Students' Union comes in. After years of worsening exploitation and working conditions, the Harvard Grad Students organized under the UAW, then joined forces with reformers in the union to oust the corrupt leadership.

During the leadership struggle, Harvard Grad Students helped their comrades from the auto-sector master the union's baroque constitution, so when the old guard tried to prevent motions from reaching the floor, the grad students were able to cite chapter and verse back at them. In the end, grad students and auto-workers together won the victory that paved the way for the strikes:

https://theintercept.com/2023/04/07/deconstructed-union-dhl-teamsters-uaw/

A strong, unified labor movement is necessary if America is to save itself from inequality, racism, the climate emergency – the whole polycrisis. The idea that creative workers aren't workers is bullshit – and so is the lie that all workers are uncreative. The "Worker As Futurist" project recruits Amazon drivers and warehouse writers to write science fiction about a future without Amazon:

https://jacobin.com/2023/09/amazon-workers-sci-fi-writing-bezos-imagination-speculative-future

They call this a "belief that rank-and-file workers, whose bodies and minds are exploited by capital, might have access to some knowledge about capitalism that is beyond even the most brilliant theorist or analyst of capitalism."

All workers can and should tell their own story. Doing so isn't just a way to change the narrative – it's also a way to change policy. The new merger guidelines from the FTC and DOJ Antitrust Division explicitly incorporate labor-market effects into antitrust policy. As Brian Callaci and Sandeep Vaheesan write for The Sling, the testimony of workers and unions can help produce the evidentiary basis for blocking the mergers that lead to monopolies:

https://www.thesling.org/workers-are-an-untapped-resource-for-antitrust-enforcers/

The rising labor movement is a force for profound change in every part of our economy and politics. Workers can be our knights in shining armor.

https://www.thesling.org/workers-are-an-untapped-resource-for-antitrust-enforcers/

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/25/huzzah/#bad-king-richard

#pluralistic #renfaires #labor class war #king richard #charter of the forest #harvard #teamsters #uaw #worker as futurist #bandcamp #bandcamp united #j edward keyes #medieval times #kings faire #kings faire inc

[rhinoclip]

I digitally painted St. Joan of Arc because I was bored and that means I nerd out about history

I just wanted to remind everyone that 15th century French Armor is THE prettiest example of medieval armor

#st joan #st joan of arc #joan of arc #jeanne d'arc #history #historical art #my art #digital art #art #realism #15th century #French armor #french history #religious art #religious history #medieval #medieval times #saint joan #saint joan of arc #france

[vintagegeekculture]

"Floris” (1969) is an action-adventure historical series that is the most famous Dutch television show of all time. The heroic Knight, Floris, played by Rutger Hauer (in his star-making role) returns to his beloved Holland from a life of world travel, only to find his estates stolen in the Guelders Wars of the 1500s. A bit of knowledge about Dutch medieval history would greatly benefit any watching of this series, as it features many historical characters, like Lange Pier, a peasant rebellion leader turned pirate. 

One of the characters is Floris’s mentor, the Hindu Fakir, Sindala, who teaches the Dutch Knight wisdom. 

The most significant person to emerge from this series is the director, Paul Verhoeven, who later on left Holland, and went to Hollywood to direct “Robocop” and “Starship Troopers.” 

#the netherlands #rutger hauer #medieval times

[dispatchesfromtheclasswar]

MEDIEVAL TIMES STRIKE!!!

#class war #class warfare #classism #medieval times #strike #scabs retire in (dis)honor

[cirilee]

teaser trailer for @neoncl0ckwork 's and my new cinematic universe about people in the wider germany/czech republic area during the witch hunt times. its mostly about the eternal witch hunter vs (supposed) witch struggle. and then the ACTUAL witches who are just having a grand time being gremlins in the woods while the humans they curse are living through body horrors while learning valuable life lessons <3

#cirileeart #ocs #matej kavka #wolfram griessböck #pepin #witch hunting #medieval times #original characters #webcomic #comic #characters turned into cats #GAY CHARACTERS TURNED INTO GAY CATS

[ssuzii]

medieval suns and moons, collection from Getty Museum

#medieval #medieval art #medieval times #art museum

[texaschainsawmascara]

jprgd on ig

#mace #gif #graphic art #graphics #art #digital art #medieval #flail #graphic #medieval times #artwork #art work #medieval weapons #medieval era #graphic design #animation #weapons #weaponry #weapon

[thatsbelievable]

#Jousting Dos and Don’ts #tips #tricks #life hacks #helpful hints #advice #jousting #knights #knight times #frogs #frog #medieval times #there were no utensils IN medieval times #so there are no utensils AT medieval times #if you know you know #unreality

[bricktoygrapher]

Clash of the Champions ⚔

#medieval times #medieval fantasy #paladins #knights #lego #lego photography #legophotography #toy photography #toyphotography #legophoto #toyphoto #toy photoshoot #brickcentral #legominifigures #lego minifigures #minifigs #minifig photography #legoart #lego medieval times

[dharr5]

I drew some fun medieval ladies! :)

Drawing historically inspired clothing is so fun! I sort of flubbed the peasant woman's outfit though 😅

#art #my art #artists on tumblr #art by me #traditional art #pencil sketch #oc #original content #original art #original character #medieval #medieval times #character design #medieval character #medieval women #fantasy #fantasy character #fantasy character design #noblewoman

[aroacenezhaanddainsleif]

realizing that i can identify as a woman but only in the way of a medieval age lady watching her knight joust from atop the balcony

#gender #medieval #medieval times #this is vaguely about dainsleif #but also i'm right #my fantasy ass gender #maj's gender #personal

[dominadespina]

LAZAREVIC SISTERS IV

Princess Teodora Lazarevic 

Early Life

She was likely born after 1366 and before 1371 as Princess Teodora Lazarevic, the fourth child and daughter of Lazar and Milica of Serbia. Like her elder sisters she was likely born in Prilepac and later moved to Krusevac. 

Though it is unkown if Teodora was a fanatic of the arts as most in her family, the constructions in Krusevac ended around 1377, so she mostly had time for various branches of resources for entertainments to watch merchants, craftmans and entertainers perform at her father’s court or at the town squares. 

She was likely closer to her younger sister; Olivera, as in the late 1380s they were the only unmarried daughters left of the royal couple. 

However her marital status did not remain chaste for much longer. 

Marriage to Nikola II Garai 

Like many of her sisters’ previous marriages this one was another political tool of their father; Lazar of Serbia. 

At the beginning of Lazar’s reign he acted as a vassal for the Kingdom of Hungary until he eventual got a way to get his state annulled away from the vassalage. 

However Lazar still wanted to remain informed of King Sigismund, his thoughts and diplomatic plans. As a result, he married one of his youngest daughters to an assiociate of the then monarcch, Nikola II Garai.

Nikola II Garai was a Roman Catholic Ban of Masco and Hungarian Palatine. It is believed the two were wed after 1386 and before 1389. It is also possible that Teodora, who was an Orthodox Christian up until her marriage took “Helen” as her name of conversion. 

Though no information has been recorded nor preserved about the intimacy of their union, Nikola proved himself to be a reliable son-in-law as in 1389-a short time before the Battle of Kosovo-he convieced King Sigismund to abondon his plans to return Lazar into some sort of vassalage, and that same year the monarchs “reconciled” through the mediation of Nikola.

Despite the divide in sources about the maternity of two of Nikola’s children, the noble couple most likely share two children with eachother, the eldest and Nikola’s namesaker; Nikola III Garai, and a daughter called Katerina Garai. Their date of births are unknown. 

From 1390 to 1402, Nikola was promoted and served as the Ban of Croatia and Dalmatia. As a result of this, he was transfered to another location, it is possible and probbale that Helen moved with him. 

Later Life 

We have no information about the later life of Helen, she passed away between 1396-1405, because by 1405 her widowed husband had remarried a woman named Anna with whom he shared a few more children with. 

Her reason of early death is unknown. Compared to the rest of her family she died quite young, still remaining in her 30s. The Lazarevics are deemed quite healthy, tall, and beautidul so her reason of death might have been something else. Even if she was in her late 30s, it is still quite a young age for a aristocrat woman to pass away at. 

{While looking for her reason of death, I couldn’t find an outbreak of the plague or a fatal virus in the location she occuped when she was alive, so more probable her reason of death might be childbirth, or pregnancy complications, or perhaps Helen always had a fragile dealth.} 

Issue

Nikola III Garai

Katarina Garai  

( Sources: “КЋЕРИ КНЕЗА ЛАЗАРА ИСТОРИЈСКА СТУДИЈА ПОГОВОР” by Jelka Redep, Dve srpske sultanije : Olivera Lazarevic (1373-1444) : Mara Brankovic (1418-1487) by Nikola Giljen, http://istorijska-biblioteka.wikidot.com/art:teodora-kci-kneza-lazara )

#Lazarevic Dynasty #Lazarevic #14th century #15th century #middle ages #medieval times #Moravian Serbia #History #geology #Princess #Lazar of Serbia #Nikola II Garai #Nikolagarai #Illustration #Teodora Lazarevic #Helen Garai #art #teodoralazarevic #lazarevicsisters