A period of particular interest to those attempting to recreate the visual effect of a medieval man at arms, since so much of the body can be covered by the jupon or coat armor if your hard kit isn’t 100% presentable. The illuminations show a wide range of sleeve designs: banana, bagpipe, angel-wing, elbow length and so on. The brasses show a much stronger bias towards sleeveless coat armors. I think there are several explanations. The brasses tend to show what I think is intended as jousting or tournament full dress: note the jousting or tournament helms used as pillows. While the illuminations show a full range of men-at-arms, the brasses show the elite subset that can afford expensive brasses. Also, a number of the sleeved designs aren’t as congenial to the display of arms on a coat armor, particularly on a two-dimensional brass, and that would be an understandable priority for the effigy buying upper crust.
Update: The British Library has made my links obsolete. For those images you can go to their search page and paste in the shelfmark or title.
Beheading of St. George, Altichiero 1385
Livy, Histoire Romaine Paris; c. 1380-1390
The Hague, KB, 71 A 16
(The link will take you to a search page, and you can enter the shelfmark, which follows "KB" above, to reach the particular manuscript."Images and Text" will then give you both thumbnail images from the MS and text describing their context)
Hohenklingen, 1386
Another View
Cotton Nero D. VI 1386-1399
Richard II appoints Earl Marshal
Churburg 1390
St. George, Champmol Altarpiece 1390
Calveley, ca. 1394
Hartneid von Pettau, ca. 1395
Bardolf 1395
Bettesthorne 1398
Life of Du Guesclin, ca. 1400
Capture of Don Pedro
Jousting
Taking of Pestien
Siege of Melun
Battle of Auray
Chroniques de France ou de St. Denis
Royal 20 C. VII ca. 1400
John Baliol before Edward I
Passage of the Seine
Sea fight off La Rochelle
Death of King of Aragon
Battle of the Spurs
English landing in Normandy
Battle in Picardy
Scenes in Hundred Years' War
Austrians and Saracens defeated
Battle on bridge over Seine
Fight outside Meaux
English army with banner
King of Navarre and his army
French destroy Genoa
Histoire du Roy d'Angleterre Richard II
Harley 1319 1401-1405
Henry of Monmouth knighted
Richard II meets Northumberland
Richard II renounces the throne
Russel 1405
Vincent of Beauvais, Le Miroir Historial (Vol. IV) Paris, Master of the Cité des Dames (illuminator); c. 1400- 1410
The Hague, KB, 72 A 24
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Jean Froissart, Chroniques (Vol. 1) Paris, Virgil Master (illuminator); c. 1400-1410
The Hague, KB, 72 A 25
(The link will take you to a search page, and you can enter the shelfmark, which follows "KB" above, to reach the particular manuscript."Images and Text" will then give you both thumbnail images from the MS and text describing their context)
Bagot 1407
Burton, c. 1410
L'Epitre d'Othea
Harley 4431 1410-1411
Memnon and Achilles
Hector prepares for battle
Siege of Babylon
Telamon's army enters Troy
Pyrrhus fights the Trojans
Minerva and Pallas Athene
Peryent 1415
Grandes Chroniques de France
Cotton Nero E. II pt.2 ca. 1415
Charlemagne finds Roland slain
Louis VII fights beside his father
England and France at war
Battle of Crécy
Battle of Poitiers
Louis VII fights beside his father
Guesclin appointed constable
Also see:
Gothic Eye
Monumental Brass Society
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3 comments:
Even with a jupon, it's hard to get that wasp-waisted look unless you have (1) a shaped breastplate, and (2) a narrow waist.
(1) is readily available, but (2) seems more difficult to obtain.
If you don't have a narrow waist, the waistless A-line jupons and coat armor are another option. Not a look I find pleasing, but an authentic one
That more billowing look might be what's called a 'huque', Will.
Thank you for this wonderful collection of imagery.
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