𝕽𝖊𝖇𝖊𝖑𝖘 𝖔𝖗 𝕭𝖊𝖌𝖌𝖆𝖗𝖘 (Will Phillips)
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I've moved on from the 14th century and the theater of the SCA's rattan stick fighting community, but this book always stuck in my head. So when I found it in such good shape in a local used bookstore, I had to pick it up for sentimentality alone.
July 13, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I've moved on from the 14th century and the theater of the SCA's rattan stick fighting community, but this book always stuck in my head. So when I found it in such good shape in a local used bookstore, I had to pick it up for sentimentality alone.
When I first started rooting around the quasi-medieval reenactment org called the SCA twenty years ago, many of the organizations "knights" extolled this novel set in the Hundred Years' War as particularly exemplary in its treatment of chivalry.
July 13, 2025 at 9:05 PM
When I first started rooting around the quasi-medieval reenactment org called the SCA twenty years ago, many of the organizations "knights" extolled this novel set in the Hundred Years' War as particularly exemplary in its treatment of chivalry.
An unexpected antique book find for the personal library from this weekend:
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘺 by Arthur Conan Doyle. This volume is from c. 1895, published by Donohue, Henneberry & Co.
#bookcollector #antiques #oldbooks #arthurconandoyle #HundredYearsWar
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘺 by Arthur Conan Doyle. This volume is from c. 1895, published by Donohue, Henneberry & Co.
#bookcollector #antiques #oldbooks #arthurconandoyle #HundredYearsWar
July 13, 2025 at 9:00 PM
An unexpected antique book find for the personal library from this weekend:
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘺 by Arthur Conan Doyle. This volume is from c. 1895, published by Donohue, Henneberry & Co.
#bookcollector #antiques #oldbooks #arthurconandoyle #HundredYearsWar
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘺 by Arthur Conan Doyle. This volume is from c. 1895, published by Donohue, Henneberry & Co.
#bookcollector #antiques #oldbooks #arthurconandoyle #HundredYearsWar
This no-nonsense basket hilt #sword goes *hard.*
My hypothesis: late 16th century continental / German basket hilt paired to a (maybe not much) later 17th century blade. The fuller design and paired crescents reminds me of many 17th-18th century broadsword blades I've seen.
#militaryhistory #hema
My hypothesis: late 16th century continental / German basket hilt paired to a (maybe not much) later 17th century blade. The fuller design and paired crescents reminds me of many 17th-18th century broadsword blades I've seen.
#militaryhistory #hema
July 12, 2025 at 3:42 AM
This no-nonsense basket hilt #sword goes *hard.*
My hypothesis: late 16th century continental / German basket hilt paired to a (maybe not much) later 17th century blade. The fuller design and paired crescents reminds me of many 17th-18th century broadsword blades I've seen.
#militaryhistory #hema
My hypothesis: late 16th century continental / German basket hilt paired to a (maybe not much) later 17th century blade. The fuller design and paired crescents reminds me of many 17th-18th century broadsword blades I've seen.
#militaryhistory #hema
Swiss papal guards, mid 1500s, by Giuseppe Rava: an Italian painter who works in a wide range of military history
#landsknecht #militaryhistory #militaryart #sixteenthcentury #16thcentury #armor
#landsknecht #militaryhistory #militaryart #sixteenthcentury #16thcentury #armor
July 11, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Swiss papal guards, mid 1500s, by Giuseppe Rava: an Italian painter who works in a wide range of military history
#landsknecht #militaryhistory #militaryart #sixteenthcentury #16thcentury #armor
#landsknecht #militaryhistory #militaryart #sixteenthcentury #16thcentury #armor
I'm just here for the swag.
French nobleman, anonymous, circa. 1594 - 1596
Print with contemporary color
Source:
www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie...
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#renfaire #garb #historicalcostuming #elizabethancollar #elizabethancostume #ilikebighatsandicannotlie #16thcenturyfashion
French nobleman, anonymous, circa. 1594 - 1596
Print with contemporary color
Source:
www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie...
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#renfaire #garb #historicalcostuming #elizabethancollar #elizabethancostume #ilikebighatsandicannotlie #16thcenturyfashion
April 22, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I'm just here for the swag.
French nobleman, anonymous, circa. 1594 - 1596
Print with contemporary color
Source:
www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie...
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#renfaire #garb #historicalcostuming #elizabethancollar #elizabethancostume #ilikebighatsandicannotlie #16thcenturyfashion
French nobleman, anonymous, circa. 1594 - 1596
Print with contemporary color
Source:
www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie...
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#renfaire #garb #historicalcostuming #elizabethancollar #elizabethancostume #ilikebighatsandicannotlie #16thcenturyfashion
The wounding of Admiral Coligny before the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, one of three frescos by Giorgio Vasari & workshop in the Sala Regia of the Vatican, c. 1574.
(Sad an atrocity would be commemorated so, but that's my 21c perspective.)
#history #arthistory #16thcentury #historygeek
(Sad an atrocity would be commemorated so, but that's my 21c perspective.)
#history #arthistory #16thcentury #historygeek
April 16, 2025 at 4:10 AM
The wounding of Admiral Coligny before the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, one of three frescos by Giorgio Vasari & workshop in the Sala Regia of the Vatican, c. 1574.
(Sad an atrocity would be commemorated so, but that's my 21c perspective.)
#history #arthistory #16thcentury #historygeek
(Sad an atrocity would be commemorated so, but that's my 21c perspective.)
#history #arthistory #16thcentury #historygeek
Work continues on my Late Renaissance TTRPG. Mostly frivolous design and art direction (when so much of the rules-writing remains).
But hey, I'm not hating this.
Engraving from Romeyn de Hooghe's map of Haarlem. IYKYK what he's depicting here.
#ttrpg #gamedesign #earlymodern #history #16thcentury
But hey, I'm not hating this.
Engraving from Romeyn de Hooghe's map of Haarlem. IYKYK what he's depicting here.
#ttrpg #gamedesign #earlymodern #history #16thcentury
April 15, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Work continues on my Late Renaissance TTRPG. Mostly frivolous design and art direction (when so much of the rules-writing remains).
But hey, I'm not hating this.
Engraving from Romeyn de Hooghe's map of Haarlem. IYKYK what he's depicting here.
#ttrpg #gamedesign #earlymodern #history #16thcentury
But hey, I'm not hating this.
Engraving from Romeyn de Hooghe's map of Haarlem. IYKYK what he's depicting here.
#ttrpg #gamedesign #earlymodern #history #16thcentury
What to do on a Saturday night? As I circle back to my Late Renaissance TTRPG, I am compiling sources - modern and extant - to create a top-down city map of Antwerp c. 1576-1585.
My players will need a good - and clear - map.
Plus, it helps with my own research into the city and its locations.
My players will need a good - and clear - map.
Plus, it helps with my own research into the city and its locations.
April 13, 2025 at 4:43 AM
What to do on a Saturday night? As I circle back to my Late Renaissance TTRPG, I am compiling sources - modern and extant - to create a top-down city map of Antwerp c. 1576-1585.
My players will need a good - and clear - map.
Plus, it helps with my own research into the city and its locations.
My players will need a good - and clear - map.
Plus, it helps with my own research into the city and its locations.
Really great manuscript. From the same, while I suspect is a reference to the pearl of great price... I can't shake the Always Sunny gag.
"Can I offer you an egg in this trying time?"
"Can I offer you an egg in this trying time?"
April 9, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Really great manuscript. From the same, while I suspect is a reference to the pearl of great price... I can't shake the Always Sunny gag.
"Can I offer you an egg in this trying time?"
"Can I offer you an egg in this trying time?"
In 1593, Bol himself was the subject of an engraved portrait by fellow artist Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617). In it, the 58 year old artist is surrounded by allegorical elements that highlight his artistic achievements.
3/3
3/3
April 8, 2025 at 8:50 PM
In 1593, Bol himself was the subject of an engraved portrait by fellow artist Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617). In it, the 58 year old artist is surrounded by allegorical elements that highlight his artistic achievements.
3/3
3/3
Here he captures ganstrekken ("goose pulling") a blood sport where riders raced by to rip the heads off suspended geese. It’s a vivid glimpse into the brutal pastimes of rural life.
2/3
2/3
April 8, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Here he captures ganstrekken ("goose pulling") a blood sport where riders raced by to rip the heads off suspended geese. It’s a vivid glimpse into the brutal pastimes of rural life.
2/3
2/3
Hans Bol (1534-1593), a master of miniature landscapes and everyday scenes, painted the vibrant and often harsh world of the late 1500s.
1/3
#oldprint #oldengraving #dutchart #flemishart #oldmasters #arthistory #historyofsport #history #earlmodern
1/3
#oldprint #oldengraving #dutchart #flemishart #oldmasters #arthistory #historyofsport #history #earlmodern
April 8, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Hans Bol (1534-1593), a master of miniature landscapes and everyday scenes, painted the vibrant and often harsh world of the late 1500s.
1/3
#oldprint #oldengraving #dutchart #flemishart #oldmasters #arthistory #historyofsport #history #earlmodern
1/3
#oldprint #oldengraving #dutchart #flemishart #oldmasters #arthistory #historyofsport #history #earlmodern
I've not kept up with the Serpent Queen, but from a clip, I'm impressed a 2020s production has the gall to put its men in actual ruffs. Or at least some of them. Some of the time.
(Time for people wearing hats in period pieces to make a comeback, too.)
#history #historicalcostuming #periodpiece
(Time for people wearing hats in period pieces to make a comeback, too.)
#history #historicalcostuming #periodpiece
April 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I've not kept up with the Serpent Queen, but from a clip, I'm impressed a 2020s production has the gall to put its men in actual ruffs. Or at least some of them. Some of the time.
(Time for people wearing hats in period pieces to make a comeback, too.)
#history #historicalcostuming #periodpiece
(Time for people wearing hats in period pieces to make a comeback, too.)
#history #historicalcostuming #periodpiece
This is the moment - when nobles became beggars, and beggars became rebels - I reference in the name of this history project: Rebels or Beggars.
4/5
4/5
April 6, 2025 at 12:14 AM
This is the moment - when nobles became beggars, and beggars became rebels - I reference in the name of this history project: Rebels or Beggars.
4/5
4/5
The day before, 5 April 1566, 200 of them had presented their petition - their Compromise of Nobles - to Margaret of Parma, the governor of the Low Countries. She took the paper, though not without the insult from her counselor, Berlaymont.
2/5
2/5
April 6, 2025 at 12:13 AM
The day before, 5 April 1566, 200 of them had presented their petition - their Compromise of Nobles - to Margaret of Parma, the governor of the Low Countries. She took the paper, though not without the insult from her counselor, Berlaymont.
2/5
2/5
Dismissed as mere “geuzen” (“beggars”), the noblemen donned ragged grey cloaks and toasted with beggar's bowls, turning the word from insult to badge of honor. If the regent's adviser thought them so, they would play the part.
#otd #history #earlymodern #16thcentury #renaissance
1/5
#otd #history #earlymodern #16thcentury #renaissance
1/5
April 6, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Dismissed as mere “geuzen” (“beggars”), the noblemen donned ragged grey cloaks and toasted with beggar's bowls, turning the word from insult to badge of honor. If the regent's adviser thought them so, they would play the part.
#otd #history #earlymodern #16thcentury #renaissance
1/5
#otd #history #earlymodern #16thcentury #renaissance
1/5
"So anyway, this is called 'Wonderwall.'"
Everyone knows Oasis ripped off The Beatles.
Fewer know The Beatles ripped off sixteenth century Swiss engraver Jost Amman.
#historyfact
Everyone knows Oasis ripped off The Beatles.
Fewer know The Beatles ripped off sixteenth century Swiss engraver Jost Amman.
#historyfact
April 4, 2025 at 8:13 AM
"So anyway, this is called 'Wonderwall.'"
Everyone knows Oasis ripped off The Beatles.
Fewer know The Beatles ripped off sixteenth century Swiss engraver Jost Amman.
#historyfact
Everyone knows Oasis ripped off The Beatles.
Fewer know The Beatles ripped off sixteenth century Swiss engraver Jost Amman.
#historyfact
Tornadoes may be passing through Missouri with more bad weather forecast in the next couple of days.
It's important to have head protection!
... Sixteenth century style with my cabasset: an open-faced helmet popular with infantry and light cavalry.
#livinghistory #armor #16thcentury #tornadoes
It's important to have head protection!
... Sixteenth century style with my cabasset: an open-faced helmet popular with infantry and light cavalry.
#livinghistory #armor #16thcentury #tornadoes
April 3, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Tornadoes may be passing through Missouri with more bad weather forecast in the next couple of days.
It's important to have head protection!
... Sixteenth century style with my cabasset: an open-faced helmet popular with infantry and light cavalry.
#livinghistory #armor #16thcentury #tornadoes
It's important to have head protection!
... Sixteenth century style with my cabasset: an open-faced helmet popular with infantry and light cavalry.
#livinghistory #armor #16thcentury #tornadoes
And the current "To The Reader" introduction laying out what I'm trying to accomplish and what to expect.
April 2, 2025 at 4:36 PM
And the current "To The Reader" introduction laying out what I'm trying to accomplish and what to expect.
A late 1500s TTRPG has been my white whale.
Four times I've designed rules. Four times I've abandoned them: fear of not getting the history right, fear of 𝘮𝘦𝘩 gameplay, fear of lack of audience.
It still spooks me. I don't like that.
Here are some recent proof of concepts.
#ttrpg #tabletop
Four times I've designed rules. Four times I've abandoned them: fear of not getting the history right, fear of 𝘮𝘦𝘩 gameplay, fear of lack of audience.
It still spooks me. I don't like that.
Here are some recent proof of concepts.
#ttrpg #tabletop
April 2, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Many know the name of Elizabeth I and the Armada of 1588. But England long played a deadly game with Spain before Philip loosed his fleet.
Here are names you may - or may not! - recognize who played a role across the channel in the tumult of the Low Countries.
Link in reply!
#Skystorians #history
Here are names you may - or may not! - recognize who played a role across the channel in the tumult of the Low Countries.
Link in reply!
#Skystorians #history
March 1, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Many know the name of Elizabeth I and the Armada of 1588. But England long played a deadly game with Spain before Philip loosed his fleet.
Here are names you may - or may not! - recognize who played a role across the channel in the tumult of the Low Countries.
Link in reply!
#Skystorians #history
Here are names you may - or may not! - recognize who played a role across the channel in the tumult of the Low Countries.
Link in reply!
#Skystorians #history
Been some time since I posted much of anything. How about this no-nonsense jousting armor from c. 1560? Scant decoration beyond the roped edges.
Built for a man with less pretense or more modest means (for a nobleman)? Who can know?
#armsandarmor #armor #16thcentury #history
Built for a man with less pretense or more modest means (for a nobleman)? Who can know?
#armsandarmor #armor #16thcentury #history
February 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Been some time since I posted much of anything. How about this no-nonsense jousting armor from c. 1560? Scant decoration beyond the roped edges.
Built for a man with less pretense or more modest means (for a nobleman)? Who can know?
#armsandarmor #armor #16thcentury #history
Built for a man with less pretense or more modest means (for a nobleman)? Who can know?
#armsandarmor #armor #16thcentury #history
A photo from a recent SCA event. I've not been active on my history account lately. The reasons? Painfully pretentious and droll. I'm still here being the 16th century history nerd, even if I'm a bit flummoxed on how to share it.
#mysca #sca #reenactment #livinghistory #16thcenturyfashion
#mysca #sca #reenactment #livinghistory #16thcenturyfashion
February 12, 2025 at 8:14 AM
A photo from a recent SCA event. I've not been active on my history account lately. The reasons? Painfully pretentious and droll. I'm still here being the 16th century history nerd, even if I'm a bit flummoxed on how to share it.
#mysca #sca #reenactment #livinghistory #16thcenturyfashion
#mysca #sca #reenactment #livinghistory #16thcenturyfashion
Cleared off the top of this bookshelf to make room for the Christmas nativity.
#darkacademia #maximalism #antiques
#darkacademia #maximalism #antiques
November 28, 2024 at 2:54 AM
Cleared off the top of this bookshelf to make room for the Christmas nativity.
#darkacademia #maximalism #antiques
#darkacademia #maximalism #antiques