Instruments of torture. Shame mask, thief catcher, thumbscrews, iron collar, branding iron. Middle Ages and modern times.
Category: Germany
Cotehardie, Houppelande and Hennin. Fashion of the late 14th century.
The two people in this plate lived very late in the 14th Century and were probably young fashionables who were up to the minute in their styles.
Cotehardie and houpelande in the 15th century. Middle Ages.
The cotehardie has adopted its main characteristics from the houppelande. The doublet or gipon. Fashion history. Burgundy 15th century.

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German clothing up to the 10th c.. Goths, Lombards, Merovingians.
German people in the dress at the end of the 10th century. Lombard king. Merovingian Franks. Carolingian Franks. Clothing in the Middle Ages.
Courtly gallantry. Fashion of the Middle Ages in the 12th and 13th century.
Fashion of the Middle Ages in the 12th and 13th century. Courtly gallantry. Pointed shoes. Knights and armament. Helmets, crest.
The Town-Hall of Cologne on the Rhine, Germany 19th c..
Germany Romanticism. Cologne and the legend of the fight with the lion of the mayor Hermann Gryn.
The Schönburg castle ruins on the Rhine, near Oberwesel.
The Schönburg castle ruins on the Rhine, near Oberwesel. The 12th century hilltop castle was destroyed by the French during the War of the Grand Alliance (The Nine Years’ War… Read More
Patrician woman in precious bridal crown. The Nuremberg Patriciate.
The portrait of a woman from the first half of the 16th century shows a bride from a rich Nuremberg patrician family. The Nuremberg City Council declared themselves patricians during the Renaissance
Crossbow of the 15th century. Ranged weapon with fishbone bow.
This strong Crossbow consists of fishbones. Usually such crossbows have the steel bow, but for the winter time such fishbone bows were chosen.
Glass painting in grisaille technique in the Middle Ages.
Glass painting of church windows with grisaille window roses. Painting on glass attained its highest excellence in the thirteenth century.

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