Browse Items (324 total)

  • Collection: Medievalism on the Streets

DSCN9893.JPG
This chalk board drawing advertises The Burger Bistro in Shafto Lane in central Perth. The drawing is based on posters and the dvd cover for Season One of the television series ‘Game of Thrones’, based on the fantasy book series A Song…

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

This online article by Carol Raabus was posted in 2009 on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Hobart page. It is about local man Doug Pattison and his re-creation of siege engines. He has built a trebuchet, first used in the twelfth…

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

The anonymous online article ‘Living by the sword’ appears in volume 4 of the Leatherwood Online – Tasmania’s Journal of Discovery website and was posted in June/July 2007. It is about professional swordsman Stephen Hand of…

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

This photograph was taken at the Gumeracha Medieval Fair, Adelaide Hills, South Australia by photographer Wendi Donaldson (May 2011). The image is entitled ‘Peasant,’ but seeing as the man is wearing a scallop-shell as a badge in his…

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

This is a ‘frozen’ combat image taken at the Blacktown Medieval Fayre by photographer Richard Taylor in 2011. It depicts a participant dressed in a Norman style helmet complete with a chainmail collar known as an avential or camal, and…

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

This photograph features a collection of ‘representative’ dining utensils from the Damascus (Knights of St John) re-enactment group. Pictured is a turned wooden bowl, a serrated-edged knife with a carved handle, a steel fork with two…

Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

‘Tasmanian Gothic’ was an episode of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Compass television programme presented by Geraldine Doogue. The story was researched by Wendy Boynton and aired on June 24, 2012 to celebrate the 200th…

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

This detailed action photograph of two knights jousting was taken at the Blacktown Medieval Fayre by Richard Taylor in 2011. Considerable attention to detail is evidenced by quality gear and trappings. Note the blunt headed lance and knightly…

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Output Formats

atom, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2