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German Soldiers in Eneit, or Aeneasroman, by Heinrich von Veldeke, Germany 1215
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A Sogdian Mortuary Couch, Bas Relief, Northern Qi dynasty, A.D. 550–577.
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Byzantine Plates - Herakleios, early 7th century
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A 1506 print of the Battle of Fornovo 1495
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Knights on a Bronze and gilt fragment from the Temple Pyx
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Pastrana Tapestries of Alfonso V of Portugal - late 15th Century
Pastrana Tapestries of Alfonso V of Portugal - late 15th Century
In the late 1400s a set of four tapestries was created to commemorate the exploits of Alfonso V (1432 – 1481), king of Portugal, in North Africa. Probably commissioned by the king himself, the tapestries were woven on a monumental scale by Flemish weavers in Tournai, Belgium. They have been the property of the Collegiate Church of Our Lady of the Assumption in Pastrana, Spain, since the seventeenth century. The tapestries represent Alfonso's campaigns in Morocco where his troops won major victories in 1471 at the coastal cities of Asilah and Tangier, strategically located near the entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar.
Pastrana Tapestries - Portuguese Landing at Asilah
Portuguese Landing at Asilah, The Portuguese Fleet off the Coast of Morocco
Portuguese Landing at Asilah, Alfonso V and his son João, mounted
Portuguese Landing at Asilah, Alfonso V and his son João on foot
Portuguese Landing at Asilah, Moroccans Prepare to Defend
Pastrana Tapestries - Portuguese Siege of Asilah
Portuguese Siege of Asilah, The Bombardment
Portuguese Siege of Asilah, Detail of bombard
Portuguese Siege of Asilah, Large detail of bombard
Portuguese Siege of Asilah, King Alfonso V on Horseback
Pastrana Tapestries - Portuguese Assault on Asilah
Portuguese Assault on Asilah, Prince João on Horseback
Portuguese Assault on Asilah, King Alfonso V on Horseback
Portuguese Assault on Asilah, Detail of King Alfonso V on Horseback
Pastrana Tapestries - Portuguese Conquest of Tangier
Portuguese Conquest of Tangier, The Portuguese Commander
Portuguese Conquest of Tangier, The Portuguese Army
Portuguese Conquest of Tangier, The Portuguese Banner is Planted on the Gatehouse
Portuguese Conquest of Tangier, The Defeated Inhabitants Leave
Portuguese Conquest of Tangier, Detail of the Defeated Inhabitants
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/attac...8&d=1367128184
See also Warfare and Firearms in Fifteenth Century Morocco, 1400-1492 By Weston F. Cook Jr.
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Pastrana Tapestries of Alfonso V of Portugal - late 15th Century
Druzhina
15th Century Illustrations of Costume & Soldiers
13th Century Illustrations of Ayyubids
13th Century Illustrations of Ayyubids
Ayyubids on a Ewer, Jazirah, 1246-1247
including a hunter, musicians, a mamluk horse-archer, a ruler, supplicant and sword-bearer, a horse & hunters & a ruler & his guards
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/attac...5&d=1398163249
and
An Ayyubid Horse-archer on a Bowl, North Syrian, 13th century
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/attac...4&d=1398163221
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An Ayyubid Horse-archer on a Bowl, North Syrian, 13th century
Druzhina
13th Century Illustrations of Costume & Soldiers
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9th Century North Italian
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Georgian 15th Century Illustrations
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Tiger Cannon of Tipu Sultan
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The Conquest of Pamplona on the Charlemagne Reliquary, ca. 1215
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Mongol Infantrymen in the Moko Shurai Ekotoba (Mongol Invasion Scroll)
Re: 13th Century Ayyubid Horsemen
Sometime in the past couple of years, someone posted in the Monastery a link to an extremely detailed site on the subject of WW2 Lend-Lease to the Soviet Union.
I mean, ridiculously detailed and rich in info.
Unfortunately, after trawling through the first 5 pages of the Monastery I couldn't seem to find the post.
Any help?
Re: 13th Century Ayyubid Horsemen
Hi guys,
I hope I'm posting in the right place.
I'm very exited for the release of Rome II in a couple of weeks and decided to brush up a bit on the history of the era.
What I'm looking for essentially is a comparison between the regions and factions set during the campaign of the game and the current countries and nations these regions and factions roughly correspond to today.
I don't need a large volume of information regarding each faction, just a short description of what these factions are known as today ( Example: Gauls are today's Frenchmen and Gaul was what is now France (give or take).
Could someone point me to a website or a thread that would help me with my personal research?
Thank you!
The Portuguese Military Orders
Re: The Portuguese Military Orders
Adding an online resource on the Medieval part - Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks. :book:
The Dumbarton Oaks website has a couple of issues available for download that deal with a wide variety of Byzantine topics, available here - http://www.doaks.org/resources/publi...on-oaks-papers
Re: The Portuguese Military Orders
Adding another source - Google has digitised significant books, and some are available to read online.
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006734253 - Byzantine Empire by C.W.C. Oman.
Re: The Portuguese Military Orders
Fascinating set of blog posts on the military use of elephants.
The blog, "A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry (A look at the history of battle in popular culture)", seems cool.
https://acoup.blog/2019/07/26/collec...le-pachyderms/
https://acoup.blog/2019/08/02/collec...gainst-wolves/
https://acoup.blog/2019/08/09/collec...hant-memories/
I: Elephants could be devastating against unprepared enemies, but their core usages were always to disorder and disrupt enemy formations (infantry or cavalry), rather than the epic charge thing. Elephant towers were actually a Mediterranean invention exported to India.
II: As a weapons-system, elephants were an exorbitant logistical and combined-arms investment that were also extremely easy to counter with preparation. The Romans (and Han Chinese) for their part found them of marginal utility.
III: "[I]f the elephant was at best a limited weapon, why did its use persist in India?" In Indian culture, elephants had higher availability as well as cultural significance. Their use persisted in part as a "royal symbol" in the competition between aristocrats and kings.
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So long as the elephant remained even moderately militarily valuable, it was a perfect vehicle for a warrior-aristocrat to display his power and prowess... This isn’t just a vanity project for the king (though it is that too) – extravagant displays of royal power are a key component of remaining king (the key big-word idea here is legitimacy).
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[A]s the Indian model of kingship spreads into that region, war elephants spread with it. Whereas in places where there is plenty of contact, but the institution of Indian-style kingship doesn’t spread, war elephants are used rarely, if at all... This tie between elephants and kings seems to have been quite strong. Trautmann (2015) notes that even within India, states without kings (oligarchies, independent tribes and cities, etc) only rarely acquired elephants and never in the same sort of numbers as kings. So even when elephants are cheaper – because they are close by – unless you need elephants as physical symbols of the power and legitimacy of the king and his warrior-aristocrats, they are largely not worth the effort to procure.
