German Soldiers in Eneit, or Aeneasroman, by Heinrich von Veldeke, Germany 1215
A Sogdian Mortuary Couch, Bas Relief, Northern Qi dynasty, A.D. 550–577.
Byzantine plates of the reign of Herakleios
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Wood carvings of scenes of the Conquest of Granada on the Choir Stalls in Toledo Cathedral
Knights on a bronze and gilt fragment from the Temple Pyx
Ayyubid Horse Archer on a Pilgrim Bottle
The Conquest of Pamplona on the Charlemagne Reliquary, ca. 1215
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An Effigy at Malvern Abbey of a Man-At-Arms (1225)
Re: German Soldiers in Eneit, or Aeneasroman, by Heinrich von Veldeke, Germany 1215
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Interesring. The shields have what appears to be coat of arms, or what could be thd beginnings of a coat of arms..
What is interesting is that the shields and helmets are not quite what we have seen on other European knights. As the article pointed out, what the soldiers are wearing are like a small great helm with a face mask, and the mail coif that covers the face except the eyes was rare outside Central Asia and the Islamic world, yet the soldiers' swords are just typical medieval European swords.
Peharps, because the images were of legendary figures of the distant past, the artist slightly modified the images so they didn't exactly look like contemporary knights of his time. That would explain why some of the soldiers the artist shows are wearing turbans, and the almost rounded appearance of the more shields. The artist doesn't want you to think these are contemporary contemporary knights. .