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| After 1475 A.D. | Fifteen bell tents, ten pavilions (long and short), two wedge and two conical tent, are pitched inside the wagenburg. Most of the tent are emblazoned with a heraldic shield (on a pavilion and a bell tent on the left is a heater with a Molet of six points at Nombril on a dark background, while on three pavilions and wedge tent on the right is a heater with Chevronny partition) or two on the roof section and also have roof edge decoration. Most of the bell tents and pavilions have ball apexes and pennons. Four of the pavilions have their two apexes very close together (about 1/3 diameter of the roof) and this makes them very similar in shape to the bell tents. Some of the tents in the foreground show roof edge guy ropes. | “The wagenburg of the Hussite Wars from Das Mittelateriche Hausbuch.”
British Museum/ E.T. Archive.
Fig. 20. Housebook Master, ‘The Camp Outside Neuss, 1475. Coloured drawing, after 1475. Private Collection. |
Humble, R., Warfare in the Middle Ages, London, 1989, p. 161.
Koch, H.W., Medieval Warfare, London, 1978, p. 162 - 163. Hale, J.R., Artists and Warfare in the Renaissance, London, 1990, p. 11. |
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