Why are there so few pictures of medieval travellers/soldiers carrying around luggage? I understand that part of pilgrimmage was to live on charity and soldiers having a whole lot less kit but still.
If I'm a soldier on campaign I'd atleast want a basic hygiene kit, sewing kit, rations, a canteen, a bedroll, extra clothes, tools, cookware and eating utensils, camping equipment, personal items and some form of entertainment. Some of these soldiers were on campaign for decades, obviously they would accumulate more stuff than the clothes on their backs and surely not everyone would have a pack animal. Did medieval artists just not feel it important to show that kind of equipment? I have a hard time believing they'd just carry these little purses that we see in artwork.
Pic related and even then its the only illustrations I've seen of a bag with shoulder straps.
Very few people remember or consider to draw that stuff.
They're artists who draw it, after its happened and without having seen it themselves usually.
Go look up drawings of modern soldiers on deviantart today, it will be generally correct but they'll probably not include the giant equipment packs.
Baggage train and camp fallowers, bruh
>that D&D shopping list
>"canteen"
>"extra clothes"
>>1196349
Because manuscript illustrations tend to show the glorious bits, knights in armour charging at each other or troops scaling the walls, not servants putting up tents or digging latrines.
There's a few pictures showing military logistics though.
Pic is from the Morgan Bible.
>>1196370
I'm not sure what "D&D" is but those items were things that I considered indispensable when I was in the army. I have a hard time believing medieval soldiers didn't get thirsty or cold.
>>1196435
From the Wolfegg Housebook, showing an army on the move.
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>>1196495
Were helmets with scarves/feathers a form of rank insignia?
Also I love the scene with the woman trying to stop her man from drinking. Details like that show that people have always been people, they weren't that different from us. You see couples with that exact same body language nowadays.
>>1196495
Also from the Wolfegg Housebook, the same army encamped. They have apparently brought a small gatehouse with them, along with portable fencing to encircle the camp, tents, tables, cooking equipment etc.
Note the guy having a dump on the edge of the camp and the people begging at the gates.
>>1196511
Swiggity swooty etc.
>>1196576
Actually adding the picture would be useful...
>>1196572
Possibly, the people wearing them seem to also be in positions of authority.
The Wolfegg illustrations are wonderful and packed with detail. This one depicting Venus.
>>1196616
And this one showing Mars. Note the pilgrim with his staff and hat of badges about to be stabbed in the head at the bottom and the woman fighting off a man on horseback with her spinning distaff.
>>1196580
The bones and carcasses in bottom right are pretty grimdark.
>>1196652
One of the guys at the table is about to knife his companion too.
>>1196668
Bottom left is either holding a balloon or a head on a stick as well.
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