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Adam and Eve (Adam et Ãˆve)

This work by French sculptor Albert BartholomÃ© was acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria with funds from the Felton Bequest in 1922. It is a bronze sculpture depicting the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise. It has been dated to 1905,…

Tags: Adam, Albert BartholomÃ© (1848-1928), art, biblical, Brancacci Chapel, bronze, cast, Eve, exile, expulsion, Expulsion from Paradise, Florence, Masaccio (c.1401-1428), paradise, sculpture, Vic, Victoria

"Should the Warrior of Today Wear Armor?"

An article in the New York Times on September 19, 1915, advocating the use of armor/armour and citing the example of Ned kelly. The article was written by Bashford Dean, Curator of Armor at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. Professor Dean notes…

Tags: Armor, Armour, Bashford Dean, highway man, knight, knighthood, knights, Metropolitan Museum, Ned Kelly, New York, New York Times, warfare

Battle of Nations 2013

The Battle of Nations Festival is a full contact medieval tournament held in Europe which began in 2009. Australia will field a team for the first time in 2013 and will be captained by Kit Houston. The event features various combat categories, from…

Tags: Archery, Armour, axe, Battle of Nations, Battle of Nations Festival, bow, combat, crossbow, Europe, festival, helmet, heraldry, Kit Houston, knight, longsword, plate armour, re-enactment, replica, shield, sword, sword and buckler, television, tournament, tv, website.

How Sir Bedivere cast the Sword Excalibur into the Water

This work was gifted to the Art Gallery of South Australia in 1960 by Mrs R.A. Haste. It is a line-block reproduction on paper depicting a scene from Thomas Maloryâ€™s fifteenth-century canonical Arthurian text Le Morte dâ€™Arthur.…

Queen Guenever as a nun

This work was gifted to the Art Gallery of South Australia in 1960 by Mrs R.A. Haste. It is a line-block reproduction on paper depicting a scene from Thomas Maloryâ€™s fifteenth-century canonical Arthurian text Le Morte dâ€™Arthur. Upon…

Birka Traders

Birka Traders was the online store created by Peter Beatson to sell his medieval metalwork. The collection included mainly jewellery and personal items such as belt buckles and strap ends, and focussed on the early medieval period, particularly the…

Tags: archaeology, armaments, Birka, jewellery, market, merchant, metalwork, New South Wales, NSW, Peter Beatson, re-enactment, retail, Sweden, Sydney, trading centre, viking, Viking Age

La Belle Yseult

This oil on panel painting, by English artist John Bedford, is held by the National Gallery of Victoria. Dating from 1863, the painting depicts a woman with long flowing hair wearing a blue medieval style dress and a garland of flowers. The title…

Alana Bennett - Essay on the Society for Creative Anachronism

A student essay on the Society for Creative Anachronism submitted by Alana Bennett as part of her assessment for â€˜ENGL2238: The Medieval in the Modern Worldâ€™, a second year English unit delivered by Professor Andrew Lynch at The…

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