Post your favourite medieval uniforms from all over the world.
>>17359896I'll start with covering Eastern Europe. First we got Novgorod Republic. My journey in learning about Russian Duchies and Tsardoms started with it. They bought/stole a lot of gear from the neighbouring countries and were the first ones to use steel plates instead of chainmail. Despite that army wasnt very good and mostly consisted of a poorly trained militia
>>17359911They also had quite a lot of noblemen in the army, that were mostly cavalry. They had a strange mix of Russian and foreign armour. An old chainmail covering the torso and foreign armour covering the arms and legs. They bought them from Italians or from German merchants in the Baltics.
>>17359926Something quite fancy Novgorod army had is elite heavy infantry. Helmet bought from Eastern Europe, chainmail covering the body along with a sleeveless gambeson. And the pavise quite literally made them walking tanks
Early Byzantines have always had style imo. Just the combination of styles from Hellenic and Fertile Crescent garb tickles me.
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>>17360166I can appreciate that. I think the Byzantines in general though were always pretty stylish.
>>17360166Do you have stuff for really late Byzantines?
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>>17361071Late Byzantines pretty much wore Italian or Turkic garb if they were in the west or east respectively.
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>>17359896>medieval uniformsDidn't exist
>>17362220Terligs and Long Jeogri (mongol pleaded coat and Korean Tunic) were used in Korea for military service members to denote their occupations. They were all supplied in equal measure by an universal linen tax. Crimson, Purple: Gold Unit, Capital Unit, Special Unit, Nobility,Blue, Yellow, White, Red, Black, Green : General Service, Rotational Service members for each region. Blue was so common that it basically became universal for soldiers near Sejong's reign.White and Black: Military PoliceGoldish yellow: Army marching band.Every man had to wear one along with their felt or horse hat during duty and they strapped identification badge on their hip and a large parchment with their unit, rank and a stamp of official service on their chest or like a rank patch on their shoulder.
>>17362220They did use uniforms with feudal coat of arms in Western Europe
Good thread.
>>17359936Back with probably the most well documented Russian duchy in terms of uniforms.The Duchy of PolotskLets start with the Senior Druzhinniks, who were called "Muzi" and mostly consisted of boyars and high ranking officials. Despite them getting the best equipment, they still used chainmail, due to Polotsk being not as advanced as Novgorod
>>17362865This picture shows another HR Druzhinnik under number 6, heavily armed city guard under number 8But the highlight is number 7 who is Svyatopolk "The Wicked", one of the popular figures in Russian history.
>>17362889Number one on this picture is another HR Druzhinnik, number 2 is a LR Druzhinnik, most likely another city guard.Number 3, however, is an unusual for most of the Duchies - a Baltic mercenary. Coming from one of the nearest Baltic tribes, they mostly had foreign gear
>>17362893The Baltic tribes and Scandinavian countries up north would have an impact on the army of Polotsk. A ton of Scandinavian mercenaries, that the locals called "Varyags" would fight for the Duchy, along with some noblemen coming to Polotsk. For example, under number 1 is Rogovolod, who is considered to come from a foreign country.
>>17361071Late Byzantines relied on foreign mercenaries. Mostly Slavic and Scandinavian kind
>>17362382This goes hard
>>17361071Also have this my man https://ru.docworkspace.com/d/sIKaw6Zf4Ac_GkbsGhttps://ru.docworkspace.com/d/sIDuw6Zf4AabHkbsGhttps://ru.docworkspace.com/d/sIByw6Zf4Ac3HkbsGhttps://ru.docworkspace.com/d/sICmw6Zf4Af3HkbsG
>>17359896>>17359911And @ all your other posts:Aren't those all just the most common types of armor available to a respective polity in a given time period and not uniforms? Anyways: Landsknechte didn't have uniforms per individual but wore colored sashes or put distinct tree branches into their hats in order to show their belonging.>>17362744Did really every participant in a medieval battle wear the coat of arms of their lords? Iirc only the actual nobleman would wear his CoA.
>>17363029 The Russian Duchies, as far as i know, every state tried to do something of their own, from architecture to army. They did try to make their individual uniformsAnd yes, my mistake with the coat of arms. Simple militia and most of the soldiers did not have them
>>17363038Being able to import german or italian armor or only being able to make maille doesn't really constitute a uniform though.
>>17363080I mean they had parts that made them look unique, like gambesons or fur capes. For example Novgorod used and and Grand duchy of Moscow used blue most of the time
>>17362382Dude has that rizz
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>>17362987>>17363704No cap he can hit in frfr no cap
technically not medieval, but the Late Roman Empire army was pretty much one
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>>17364941Grand Duchy of Moscow Infantryman
>>17365514Heavy Cavalryman
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>medieval uniform>Its not uniformBonus:>modern drawings instead of primary sourcesgood job /his/
>>17361071The super late (14th-15th century) Byzantines actually wore plate armor bought from Italians which is an interesting fact that nobody seems to know)
Another interesting fact about Byzantine arms and armor is that the Byzantines themselves rarely depicted the contemporary armor that they used in murals or books, instead they always drew the same old "heroic" costumes from centuries in the past with capes and shit(marvel-brained) so modern historians have to rely on Serbian Georgian and Bulgarian murals instead to find out what the Byzantines dressed like
>>17367475Not even a Byzantine thing but rather an Orthodox iconographic tradition, so looking ate art from other places isnt really any better or helpfulThe actual issue, is that there is absolute nothing, zilch, nada, zero remaining body armor from the Byzantine empire beyond the odd bits of lamellar armor that we can use to cross reference and validate how representative those artworks really are. By comparison, with western european armor not only do we have a decent amount of extant pieces, but we have so fucking much artwork that we can use to cross reference, that we can define, date and pinpoint stylistical changes in armor with a precision of one or two decades
