[dungeonlust]

Donato Giancola

[memories-of-ancients]

Mace, Italy, circa 1600

from Czerny's International Auction House

[visual-detox]

[sniperks]

i love your theme sm it's like a hozier song

YOU ARE LIKE A HOZIER SONG

[medievaljournalist]

conspicuously stepping on a pressure plate in the dungeon of the gender transformation mage & immediately being bisected by a sawblade

[moldavite]

bored out of my mind so i'll be outside hitting concrete with my longsword for a while

[met-armsarmor]

Portions of an Armor for Vincenzo Luigi di Capua (d. 1627) by Pompeo della Cesa, Arms and Armor

Medium: Steel, gold, leather, copper alloy

Gorget, pauldrons, and breastplate: Purchase, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Gift, 2001; Backplate: Purchase, Gift in honor of Maximilian and Alexander Saga, 2013 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/642980

[dungeonlust]

[pristinescarlett]

Victorian Valentine cards, 1870-1880

[nihtegale]

The Four Elements c. 1481

[armthearmour]

Another of the skulls fused with a maille (chainmail) Coif recovered from the site of the battle of Visby, Gotland, ca. 1361.

[zegalba]

Olaf Breuning: Only One (2000)

[historyarchaeologyartefacts]

The iron hand of Götz von Berlichingen (1480-1562), a knight and mercenary who lost his right arm in a siege [640×360]

[brunhiddensmusings]

points about this -it was shot off by a cannon -he continued being a knight for over 40 years after getting the iron hand -it was delicate enough he could still write with a quill using it, which is important as he was described as a ‘warrior poet’ -after a merchant-punching life suitable for an elder scrolls protagonist he was outlawed by the holy roman empire, friends of his used a high diplomacy roll and a bribe to get him out, and he then almost immediately kidnapped a bishop -after outlaw of the holy roman empire 2 electric boogaloo was placed under house arrest in a castle he had purchased with all his quest rewards to spend the next 20 years drunk off his ass

[fuckaspunk]

I can’t believe you’d make this post and not mention that his poetry contains the first known usage of the phrase “lick my ass”

[memories-of-ancients]

Italian stiletto, 17th century

from Czerny's International Auction House

[memories-of-ancients]

Ornate kasthane, Sri Lanka, 18th century

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[memories-of-ancients]

Tournament armor, Germany, circa 1600

from Czerny's International Auction House

[memories-of-ancients]

Halberd, Dutch Flemish or Luxembourg, circa 1580-1600

from The Philadelphia Museum of Art