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Showing posts with label Beds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Beds. Show all posts
Friday, October 25, 2013

More Camp Beds

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BL Add 15277 f.51 The Israelites with the Moabite women in their tents, c.1350-99, Death of Louis...
Thursday, October 24, 2013

A Folding Bed, ca. 1600

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Probably from Augsburg, now in the Bavarian National Museum, which has another image and more information here . The...
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Wednesday, October 23, 2013

15th and 16th Century Camp Beds

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The French term lit de camp to describe a camp bed appeared in written records by c. 1450, and became assimilated into Scottish by the...
Sunday, October 20, 2013

Death in a Camp Bed

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Jael and Sisera, from the Maciejowski Bible, ca 1240, Jael and Sisera, fo...
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Friday, October 18, 2013

A 14th Century Rope Bed

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Agnolo Gaddi, Detail of Legend of the True Cross , ca. 1380.
Thursday, October 17, 2013

A Camp Bed, 1803

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This camp bed is found in Sheraton's 1803 The Cabinet Dictionary , which describes the const...
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I’ve been involved in medieval recreation since 1975. I contributed to a manual for living history that later grew into the book Daily Life in Chaucer’s England, and have written and illustrated several articles on the medieval tournament. This blog is mostly a platform for my other writing about the Middle Ages, and whatever else moves me: other history, movies, SF, space exploration, contemporary politics and economics. You can find my livejournal feed at Willscommonplac
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