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Stundenbuch der Maria von Burgund

Here we will present some of our equipment. Where possible, we try to support our reconstructions by the following evidence:

  • preserved original objects
  • contemporary illustrations
  • historic written sources
  • actual scientific literature

 

Artillery Chest

Waffentruhe

To store and keep accessories and bullets ready at the place of action, there were artillery chests. These chests usually had different compartments for the accessories, bullets and powder supplies or Hultzein Ladungen, small wooden containers with single powder loads. Some of these compartments had additional lids to cover them.

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Caltrops

Vairous reconstructed caltrops

Caltrops or mantraps are simple and cheaply producible defensive weapons of enormous tactical effectiveness.

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Shiels

Grande Chroniques de France - 1390-1405 - BNF Français 2608 fol 2 v

Storm shields or storm walls (German: Setztartsche or Tartsche; Middle Low German: stormtharze) are large, man-high shields with a slight curvature that are wide enough to provide protection for two people and in whose cover crossbowmen or riflemen could comfortably reload their weapons.

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Blackpowder

Powder Processing - Bellifortis, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München Cgm 600 Fol 3v, ca. 1400-1425

Since the late middle ages it was a widely held belief that Grey Friar Berthold Schwarz from Freiburg had invented blackpowder around 1350. But today historians are certain that the invention took place much earlier and in a different part of the world.

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