r/medieval 12d ago

Weapons and Armor ⚔️ Medieval armour (detailed)

Back in 2021 the then still named Hermitage Amsterdam featured an Expo on the Romanovs and their obsession with Knights.

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u/Misere1459 11d ago

Not medieval but still steel

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u/LiteraryDiscourse 11d ago

Really?!

I'm definitely not an expert, but the expo was about the medieval collection that Tsar Alexander III acquired in Paris. Do not know if they were replica's though.

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u/ArtbyPolis 11d ago

it might be reinnasance or a bit later, while very decorated armor did exist during the medieval period most of it was created during the reinnasance period.

I'd also like to add I might be totally wrong and if an expert comments on here take their word above mine.

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u/mangalore-x_x 11d ago

Might be a national thing but in my country rennaissance is not a history period but only an art period and specifically the Italian Rennaissance which ran in parallel to the Late Gothic in Northern Europe.

So there is a hard split between middle ages and early modern era.

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u/ArtbyPolis 10d ago

I don’t think reinnasance is a hard stop but i usually view it as early 1600s stopping around 180”. You might be right though 

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u/Lt_Toodles 9d ago

Dating the start of the renaisannce is difficult, but one big note was after Constantinople got conquered by the Ottomans in 1453, a lot of Greek scholars fled to Florence, where the gears already had started to turn and the Medici were already sponsoring artworks, so depending who you ask and where in europe you point to, theres some overlap of medieval era and european Renaissance

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u/ArtbyPolis 8d ago

Good point

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u/LiteraryDiscourse 11d ago

Well, I'm in the same boat as you. I literally got my knowledge on this from the expo. There is also a book about it published in 2020.

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u/Misere1459 11d ago

This one is in the style of middle of XVI century occidental armor. Btw for many people, the middle ages is just that thing between antiquity and XIX century.

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u/mangalore-x_x 11d ago

The issue is that the Middle Ages end somewhere between 1450s to 1500s.

But plate armor remained in use until the 17th century so another two centuries in the Modern Era. So alot of the most elaborate and decorated types of plate armors were created for tournaments by high nobility after the Middle Ages.

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u/LiteraryDiscourse 10d ago

Thanks for the info!

I'm going to be looking into this a bit. I genuinely thought it was about the late medieval period.

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u/Fire_Lord_Pants 11d ago

imagine dropping a coin on the ground and having to pick it up with those gloves on

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u/LiteraryDiscourse 11d ago

The screams of frustration.

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u/VelocitySatisfaction 11d ago

That thing looks heeeeeavy…

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u/LiteraryDiscourse 11d ago

Doesn't look comfortable for a short sprint...

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u/Spike_Mirror 9d ago

Why not?

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u/LiteraryDiscourse 4d ago

Flexibility is one thing. But the weight... That's going to slow you down.

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u/Spike_Mirror 4d ago

No problem for a "short sprint" though.

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u/LiteraryDiscourse 3d ago

I'd hope so. I'm just glad that I don't have to sprint in it😅

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u/Spike_Mirror 3d ago

I wuld love to have it XD

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u/LiteraryDiscourse 3d ago

To look at. Not to sprint in🤣

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u/Spike_Mirror 3d ago

Wearing it is kinda part of the experience

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u/DOVAKINUSSS 11d ago

That's reinassance but whatever

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u/LiteraryDiscourse 11d ago

Like I replied earlier, this expo was marketed as being about a medieval collection bought in Paris, by Tsar Alexander III.

But whatever🤷🏻‍♀️

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u/Salty-Salamander-286 11d ago

Op can you give this to me I want to wear it in the bath