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Medieval â€˜Coppergateâ€™ Shoes

Awl Leather, established in 1991, is a manufacturer of footwear, bags, belts and other leather accessories. They are also saddlers. This online catalogue features a selection of medieval style shoes, including several â€˜Coppergateâ€™,…

Tags: Awl Leather, bags, belts, coppergate shoes, leather, leather goods, medieval clothing, medieval footwear, saddlers, Saxon shoes, shoes, Viking shoes, York

Uniting Church, York, WA

The Uniting Church in York, Western Australia was erected in 1888. It was built as a chapel by followers of the Wesleyan Denomination of the Methodist faith. It exhibits architectural features which are typical of the nineteenth-century Gothic…

Tags: arch, arches, architecture, Church, Gothic, Gothic Revival, lancet windows, Methodist, Methodists, Perth, religion, religious, Uniting Church, WA, Wesleyan, Western Australia, York

'Close Combat'

This is one of several â€˜battleâ€™ images from the NEMAS Easter Gathering in Armidale, NSW, in 2008. A number of medieval re-creation enthusiasts are engaged in close combat. They are armed with swords and what look to be mostly kite…

â€˜Table Itemsâ€™

This photograph features a collection of â€˜representativeâ€™ 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: candle-holder, Crusades, dining utensils, eating, fork, goblet, knife, knight, Knights of St John, mealtimes, medieval implements utensils

Domestic Castle, Perth, Tasmania

One of four photographs of a castle-like building on the Midland Highway in Perth, Tasmania. This one shows the castle/house, which inexplicably also has a windmill coming out of its centre. The domestic brick house features extensive crenellation,…

Tags: battlements, castle, crenellation, domestic, dragon, house, Perth, residence, Tas, Tasmania, windmill

La Belle Dame sans merci, by Arthur Hughes

This painting by English artist Arthur Hughes was acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria in 1919 with funds from the Felton Bequest. It portrays a scene fromthe well-known ballad of the same name penned in 1819 by Romantic poet John Keats. The…

The â€˜Caxton Windowâ€™

An image of the â€˜Caxton Windowâ€™ located in the Mitchell Reading Room at the State Library of New South Wales. This stained glass window was created in a neo-medieval figurative style by John Radecki of Ashwin and Co., Sydney in 1941. It…

Tags: books, education, John Ashwin & Co., John Radecki, Margaret of Burgundy, Mitchell Reading Room, New South Wales, NSW, patronage, print, printing, printing press, Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye (1474), stained glass, State Library of NSW, Sydney, William Caxton (c.1422-1492), window

Detail of a mounted Knightâ€™s leg at Ironfest

This close-up image of a mounted knightâ€™s leg was taken at Ironfest in 2008 by the photographer Richard Taylor. It reveals a blend of contemporary customs and traditional workmanship, for modern re-enactments of jousting require utmost…

Tags: â€˜Ironfest, â€™ joust, Armor, Armour, body armour, caparison, combat, Full Tilt, greave, heraldry, horse, jousting, kneecup, knight, Lithgow, New South Wales, NSW, plate armour, poleyns, re-enactment, reenactment, Richard Taylor

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