𝔍. 𝔳𝔬𝔫 𝔈𝔦𝔫𝔰𝔦𝔢𝔡𝔢𝔩 𝔲𝔫𝔡 𝔗𝔶𝔯𝔷𝔬𝔴

Středověk byla temná doba, kdy furt pršelo, všude bylo bahno, všichni chodili v černém, měli dlouhé vlasy a hrál do toho metal.

@MedievalScholar Yes

Are you a sword, mace or axe person?

@Longswordwife @Knightly_Hist As a Bohemian, I agree.

@Knightly_Hist Pavises are so underrated

@Meleagro97 @Knightly_Hist It's exactly the opposite. Pavises primarily protected shooters against other shooters — in the 15th and early 16th century, arquebuses were not able to penetrate a pavise, and at the same time Czech armies had about 25% shooters, a ratio unmatched for most of the 16th century.

@Knightly_Hist Why weren't shields more used in pikes and shot? With the shot, i understand, but a shield would still block the pike, no?

Pavises for everybody Brought to you by Bohemian Mercenaries

@HolexTv @Knightly_Hist To be honest, the Bohemians numbered nearly half as many, and unlike the enemy they had neither cavalry nor artillery. And in fact they didn't even want to fight — they were forced into the confrontation.

@Knightly_Hist Based (even tho they lost the battle depicted in the images "Wenzenbach")

@Luuuuuka2 @Knightly_Hist Point 18 (Líšná) in Service Fiefs part: tyrovsti.cz/historical-bac…

@ClaryAldringen @Knightly_Hist Sorry for responding to a half a year old post but do you remember the source of this quote?

It's a fairly common way to armor up for light cavalry in the 16th century. Shoulder armor (the germans sometimes used particularly long pieces that reach the elbow) gauntlets and a maille sleeve. Mail armor didn't disappear with teh middle ages!

@TimothyEveland @BigPillowPanzer They have a FakeSteel weapons, but I'm not sure if Red and Bára are a part of FakeSteel - Redanthalas makes his own fantasy armour.

@BigPillowPanzer Very cool. Fakesteel is a great name for a LARP equipment company.

Meanwhile LARPers with 100x better Nilfgaardian armor would probably show up for FREE if Netflix invited them. What's worse is that the designer Tim Aslam refused to apologize and defended his "artistic" choice. That guy should be banned from ever touching armor again.

@Farl12345 @Knightly_Hist It depends on the location. In Bohemian armies (such as the Hussite leagues) and armies with a significant Bohemian component (e.g., the Hungarian Black Army), they made up as much as 25% of all weapons. The longbow, on the other hand, had no tradition here.

@Knightly_Hist This spurned me to ask: How were very early guns (like the hand cannon) used on the battlefield? What differentiated them from longbows or crossbows?

Ahead of it's time twice. Later on "swords" (as the unicorn shaffron is called) and firearms on horseback will become common.

@mladivItalii 2/2 Latinská verze „eat shit and die" — ve tvaru „Mande merdam et morere" — pochází z humoristické příručky Henryho Bearda, jednoho ze zakladatelů časopisu National Lampoon, vydané v roce 2004 nakladatelstvím Gotham Books / Penguin.

@mladivItalii 1/2 Přišlo mi to natolik zajímavé, že jsem se k tomu pokusil dohledat latinský originál a bohužel se zdá, že neexistuje. Hláška pravděpodobně pochází z amerického vojenského prostředí 2. pol 20 stol., kdy vojáci tvrdili, že člověk musí jen žrát, srát a zemřít (Eat, Shit and Die)

@Knightly_Hist All these English depictions of plate armour from the Romantic period bear a striking resemblance to exhibit A-21 from the Wallace Collection. Coincidence? I think not!

Resulted in my favourite pre-raphaelite painting: The Two Crowns.

@JPulkert Moje (ne)oblíbený bylo: x.com/ClaryAldringen…

Majitelé vlkodava jsou alergičtí na některé pokřiky kolemjdoucích "obdivovatelů": - Hele, to je tele. - Na tom by se dalo jezdit. - Podívej, Kačenko, ten by Tě slupnul jak malinu. - Ten je jako kůň. - Kačenko, když budeš zlobit, tak Tě sežere. - To snad nejde uživit, ne? - Kde má sedlo? - To bych nechtěl potkat v noci v lese. WTF: - Paní, to je bernardýn? - To je doga? Naštěstí jsem mírumilovný člověk a milovník černého humoru a tak většinou ve stylu: " Také bych Vás nechtěl potkat v lese v noci. "😎♥️ #životsvlkodavem

@hroch32 @VxalCZ Panenko Skákavá, ty to nevíš?

@VxalCZ Kdepa to je?

Romantická zřícenina

@Knightly_Hist Felvidék

Steam is putting up a whole catalogue of medieval themed games on SALE until the 27th of April! I bought the original edition for Dark Souls 2 (finally at a decent price) since I only ever played SOTFS and Feldivek!

Dnes je tomu právě 65 let, co se tenhle týpek dobrovolně posadil na 300 tun paliva jen aby se dostal na 108 minut ze Sovětského Svazu.

@fakehistoryhunt I'm sorry, but I can't help myself...

Mini review of the '1348 Ex Voto' demo that you can now download for free on Steam. We get to play a girl who is dressed like a knight who has to rescue her friend, although girls being knights would be uncommon and will trigger some game-boys, it didn't bother me.

@SamalKrystof Again photobombed by my delegation 😅

Throwback to Torneoinarmatura 2024, held by italian group Famaleonis. Photo by Luciano Verzola. About to face the Champion - Cabrera from Catalonia.

@Knightly_Hist But you live there with a Dutch man, Swedish girl and Italian guy :-D

After living in germany for almost 1 year, the funniest thing I've learned about them is that many fo them don't know how to blink. They just close their eyes for 1 second and go back to staring at you like this 👁️👁️

@Knightly_Hist ...and Václav Upír Krejčí (can be translated as a Wenceslaus Vampire Tailor ) as a blacksmith!

Now that A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is over. GO WATCH KNIGHT'S TALE. It's got everything you want. Comedy, romance, action, light hearted tone, high stakes, JOUSTING and GOOD ARMOR.

@LandsknechtPike In socialist Czechoslovakia, we had freedom of speech — but not freedom after speech.

It's interesting to study how freedom of speech was suppressed in communist Eastern Europe. They never outright said "we're banning free speech". Instead they made laws against things like "hostile agitation" which were so vague that it allowed them to prosecute anything. For example in communist Yugoslavia you could be persecuted for "verbal delict". But what the hell is a "verbal delict"? It turns out that it can be anything that the regime didn't like. It was defined in Article 133 of the Criminal Code of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia as followed: "(1) Whoever, by means of an inscription, leaflet, drawing, speech, or in any other way, calls for or incites the overthrow of the rule of the working class and working people, the unconstitutional change of the socialist self-management social order, the disruption of brotherhood and unity and equality of nations and nationalities, the overthrow of bodies of social self-management and government or their executive bodies, resistance to decisions of competent authorities of government and self-management that are significant for the protection and development of socialist self-management relations, security and defense of the country, or who maliciously and untruthfully depicts the socio-political conditions in the country, shall be punished by imprisonment from one to ten years. (2) Whoever commits the act from paragraph 1 of this article with help or under influence from abroad, shall be punished by imprisonment of at least three years." As you can see, the definition of what constituted a verbal delict was so vague it could literally mean anything. For example "maliciously and untruthfully depicting the socio-political conditions in the country" could basically mean any criticism of the regime that didn't align with the official government interpretation. Article 133 was used to persecute political opponents, intellectuals and even artists like poets and writers. You could be sentenced for multiple years in prison for a poetry collection, if the authorities deemed that the poems did not depict a rosy enough picture of the socialist state. People could also be sentenced under this article for private jokes that were overheard and reported. The regime used informers and provocateurs who were deliberately planted to provoke or elicit anti-regime statements in private settings. These people would try to provoke you into saying something against the regime and then report you. Other Eastern European communist countries had similar laws and persecuted people for things like "spreading false alarming information", ""incitement against the state", "hostile propaganda" etc. East Germany had a law against "state-endangering agitation" which could persecute people for "incitement against social conditions." As you can tell, this could mean pretty much any statement that the government didn't like. As you can see from this examples, suppression of free speech in communist countries did not involve government literally saying "you don't have free speech". All of the communist Eastern European countries officially guaranteed free speech in their constitutions. But in practice, free speech was suppressed by using vague laws that could easily be interpreted in a way to censor anything that the regime didn't like.

11/11 In the two-hour battle the Portuguese lost 8 men; Japanese losses were three ships, 80 dead and over 200 wounded samurai. If you enjoyed this thread, next time we can continue with the Battle of Manila (1574) between the Spanish and Chinese and Japanese (wokou) pirates.

10/11 As the attack focused on the carrack, Captain Meneses gained time to circle the Japanese fleet with his galleon, trapping it in a crossfire from both Portuguese ships. After three ships were sunk, the Japanese withdrew.

@Knightly_Hist recently brought up a topic that is as old as the Internet itself - whether a samurai or a knight would win in a hypothetical battle. Although this cannot be seriously decided, there are several interesting incidents involving Portuguese sailors and the Japanese: