guys i need your help here, i need medieval illustrations of different kinds of medieval "soldiers" for a project i am working on(they can be professionals, levy or wathever) they can be from the 1100's to the 1400's, i need southern european ones, central european, northern european, eastern european, balcans, middle eastern and asian. Anything you can contribute with, even if it's not pics but information and useful links about this topic (composition and clothing of those regions in said era) will be extremely useful to me and i would be really grateful. Also i apologize if my english is kind of rubbish, i'm really out of practice
>>967102
bumping with some more knights
>>967112
and medieval kung fu or something
>>967102
These depictions were taken from the Codex Manesse. Given your tiny pictures, I assume you don't know that it has been fully digitalised. http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/cpg848. Otherwise, I'd recommend looking into the illuminations on Froissart's chronicles, which usually fall into the late 14th to early 15th century. For something more 15th century-ish, there is the Hausbuch Wolfegg which shows a late medieval army group, or you could take a look at fencing manuals, e.g. Talhoffer's.
>study history of homo sapiens
me hope you not do this
they call homo sapiens for reason, gay
HA!
Whatever, homo neanderthalensis
>>966341
>Being this pleb
>Be homo neanderthalensis
>Be the niggest species
>>964560
Fucking normies, get off my reformation!
beard
THE POPE DOES
Lets start a thread of pictures/paintings you enjoy from history. I'll start(Pic very related)
>>961108
>then they got mighty rekt
Top zozzle
I need an art Classical art thread to bump
>Dyḗus Ptḗr
"The Shining Sky Father" is the most important deity of the Proto-Indo-Europeans. His very name is related to *déiwos – he is the god. It is recognizable in the Roman Jupiter, Oscan Dípatír, Umbrian Iupater ((((Weiss))), 2010, 211), Sabellian Dipoteres, Marrucinian Ioues patres, Greek Zeus Pater, Illyrian Dei-paturos (or Dei patyro: Winn, 1995, 22), Vedic Dyaus Pitar, Baltic Dievas, Luvian Tatis Tiwaiz, Palaic Tiyaz Pāpaz, and Germanic *Tiwaz (later Týr). (Some of these are from West, 2007, 166-7.) Among the Scyths he was just Papaeus, "Father" (Herodotus, 4.59). The Russian Svarog may be a calque, since it seems to derive from Iranian origins with a meaning of “Shining One” (Zaroff, 1999, 51); regardless of the Iranian form of the name, the deity is clearly Slavic. In other words, memories and versions of him survived in almost all the IE cultures, which shows how important he was.
http://www.ceisiwrserith.com/pier/deities.htm
>Dyḗus Ptḗr’s name has “father in it.” This is the most common title of Dyaus pitar in the Rig Veda.
http://www.ceisiwrserith.com/pier/deities.htm
>1. I PRAISE with sacrifices mighty Heaven (Dyaus) and Earth at festivals, the wise, the Strengtheners of Law.
Who, having Gods for progeny, conjoined with Gods, through wonder-working wisdom bring forth choicest boons.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv01159.htm
>implying that i need some kind of a statue in order to recognize and glorify the Logos
>the Strengtheners of Law.
>Dyḗus Ptḗr is the transcendent lord. He is the protector of the Xártus, the enforcer of natural law. At Sparta there was a temple to Zeus Cosmetas, “Zeus the Orderer” (Pausanias 3.17.4). Dyḗus Ptḗr may therefore be called Xártupotis, "Lord of the Xártus."
http://www.ceisiwrserith.com/pier/deities.htm
>[1] At libations to Zeus what else should rather be sung than the god himself, mighty for ever, king for evermore, router of the Pelagonians, dealer of justice to the sons of Heaven?
http://www.theoi.com/Text/CallimachusHymns1.html
What has been the most kind act in history? It could be done by a collective or an individual.
When the Janitor came to /his/ and gloriously deleted threads that interfered with Hitler threads
>>958669
kek
>>958669
epic
>Russia has never won a war that wasn't lopsided
>there are people who are actually Russian
>>958188
Do you play Mount and Blade Warband: Napoleonic Wars, Anon?
If so, what's your Steam.
>>958197
I have it pirated.
![gods_jul08_631.jpg__800x600_q85_crop[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/twrx0lK.jpg "gods jul08 631 800x600 q85 crop[1]")
Is Brinkmann's reconstruction of how classic Greek statuary was painted accurate or do you image he's made them appear significantly more gaudy than they truly were?
Definitely more gaudy. No way someone spends the time learning to craft those statues then painted them like a child.
It's a reproduction of the first coat, not the final painted item. Given that color was inherently precious they were probably more gaudy than we normally imagine, but not as ugly as these reproductions.
>he's made them appear significantly more gaudy than they truly were?
probably this, he needed to sell the novelty, the more shocking the better. Besides, such lively colors on stone are achieved with modern synthetic paints.
>it's a Crispus didn't succeed Constantine episode
>It's a Germanicus is killed by some pouty little fatfuck episode
>It's a Marcus Aurelius never smothered his son episode
>It's a Belisarius gets cuckolded by his Wife episode
>It's a Julius Caesar gets a World-Star Hip Hop'd episode
>it's a Sebastian didn't sire a son episode
>>956678
>It's a Caligula episode
What do you think about lost civilizations /his/?
That's a vague question, OP.
A cool topic, but kind of hard to post about
Why is Communism so easy to break? Communism only lasted for as long as Lenin was alive in the USSR, because after that Stalin came in and turned it into a murder house which after that just became a boogeyman. China is the worst example, they demolished the old culture which the could have easily kept, it was probably due to the impact the second world war had on the citizens and that they wanted something new that the old government didn't. But the Chinese during the Cultural revolution killed a lot of people, most of them were just Tibetan monks and people who didn't agree with Mao, apparent in the amount of people he killed. I've only seen Communism work in places like Laos, where it's still technically a farming based culture. Even Vietnam is that way, the US only invaded due to the USSR's involvement in the revolution. We don't see massive uproars in places like Vietnam compared to China. Why is that so?
>>953966
Because command economies do not give everyone what they need, and therefore there will be scarcity.
/thread
>>953966
>see massive uproars in places like Vietnam
You mean like thousands of Southerners placed in reeducation camps?
Also Vietnam followed China's economic model you know.
>>953967
Need and want btw*, meant to put that as an edit.
If an all-knowing alien visited the earth and said that the polar opposite political belief is the way to true prosperity, would you embrace that belief?
>>951979
Frankly, probably not, I'd be too worried the aliens would be showing up to take over. And what better way to destroy a native population than to have them do it themselves.
Now, if they actually show some proof they're benevolent and just trying to help, sure, but I'd also be wary of trusting someone who's basically saying "Well it worked for me!" when my biggest complain with most ideologies is that they exist in a vacuum and setting that has never appeared before in human history. In case anyone was wondering, I'm fairly conservative and I don't see liberal ideologies ever working out long term as long as humans are humans in all their selfish, short sighted assholery.
Maybe.
>>951979
How do I know that the alien is all-knowing?
Need inspiration and like wot bog sends...
How do you go from OP's pic to ... this shit
>>945678
turks
>>945678
But hoplites also had mini skirts, and some were faggots too.
>hated mudskins
>hated big pharma
>hated greeks
>hated "degeneracy"
>extremely patriotic & jingoistic
>muh ancestors are spbeaging to me :DD
Was he the first Tea Party activist/ /pol/ack?
>Tea Party
I don't think the Bostonians who threw tea into the harbor that night hated "mudskins" that much, considering America's good relations with West African Muslim countries early on, disregarding (or even taking into account) the Barbary Wars.
Or are you breaking the 25-year rule?
>>987279
In what way is he breaking the 25 year rule my reddit friend?
He isn't asking about the history of the 2010 tea party, he's just comparing a guy from two millenia ago to a today's party so he can understand the situation better and mayhaps even draw parallels
>>987284
What?
The comparison breaks the rule.
The French settlers in America played a big role, founded many cities and states, but it feels like they're somehow forgotten by now. Many white Americans boast about their German, British, Irish or Polish heritage, but where are the French-Americans?
Is there any good literature about the works of French settlers in the USA? What about the Cajuns? Do they have a distinct culture or is their population size too small to be relevant?
>>986938
Because the French got btfo by the English. And this defeat was added to the long and growing list of pathetic French defeats.
Why would anyone be proud to be or celebrate these losers?
>>986938
>any white Americans boast about their German, British, Irish or Polish heritage, but where are the French-Americans?
In Canada
I've got some French in me
It's the worst part of my heritage
