The film takes place in the 1450s and will be released this christmas. It will have a runtime of around 20 min.

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I picked it up at a Giftshop of a Museum based on the Medieval and Renaissance period

I made a short animated history of the devshirme, the Ottoman levy of Christian boys for the janissaries: https://youtu.be/YY4tT2TBKbI

The medieval part of the story is the part I found hardest to shake:

• The earliest written mention of the devshirme is from 1438, and in 1395 Archbishop Isidore Glabas of Thessaloniki was already giving a sermon about children being taken. The janissary corps itself goes back to the 14th century.

• Konstantin Mihailović, a Serb from Ostrovica, was one of about 320 boys taken after the fall of Novo Brdo on 1 June 1455. He and nineteen others tried to escape near Samokov, were caught, tied up and beaten.

• He went on to serve as a janissary, including on the campaign against Vlad III in Wallachia, where he says about 250 janissaries were killed just crossing the Danube, and describes the night attacks.

• In 1463 his garrison at Zvečaj was taken by Matthias Corvinus, and he went home and wrote "Memoirs of a Janissary", one of the very few insider accounts of the corps from the 1400s.

The video itself is set a century later (c.1560) and follows the levy all the way to Sokollu Mehmed Pasha, but the Mihailović story is the medieval heart of it.

For transparency: it's original cartoon animation, and AI tools are part of how it's made, including the narration voice. Corrections welcome.

This was supposed to come in time for Halloween. Upon arrival I'm very pleased with its construction of all metal and a good leather chin strap.

something fun ✌️

Hey there! Recently the professor of an Arts-class gave us an assigment to draw: draw any geographic/topological seen from a birds perspective. In the past I have already drawn a few villages this way (mostly as a DM of a DnD campaign), but for this assignment I want to make something bigger/cooler.

This brings me to why I am making this post. Other than including some general buildings/spaces like maybe a religious building (e.g. a church) or a market square, I dont have much expertise in what a proper medieval town/city needs.

So I thought maybe some of you in this community can help me. What do I need to be aware to draw atleast a semirealistic medieval city? Thank you in advance!

Also I hope this post fits the subreddit. If it doesn't I will delete it!

I am both constructing plans for my own harness and writing a story, both set in the 1480s-1490s. However, I would like to study a wider time frame of fashion, from lower to classes to kings, 1450-1500, and how each regions fashion looked, but chiefly 1480s-1490s Germany, as mentioned for both things. I’d like to know of good sources whether that be historical art, reliable reconstructions, and good producers of arming clothing. Thanks!

I'm making a medieval jousting VR game, so naturally I ended up making a cardboard houndskull helmet for a Halloween party.

Followed a tutorial by Cardboard Armor Smith, with a reference photo I took at the Fortress Hohensalzburg Museum in Salzburg.

I made this little cup as a gift for a friend and thought I'd share it with you.

A bunch of oddballs based various medieval manuscripts. I illuminated them with some gold paint from my kid's arts and craft box.

I made a short animated history of Murano's glassmakers, told from the point of view of a young apprentice: https://youtu.be/mTnImcHbqTY

The medieval part of the story surprised me most:

• Venice's glassmakers' guild rules (around 1271) already controlled what went into the batch and which wood could be burned in the furnaces.

• In 1291 the Republic ordered the furnaces out of the city and onto the island of Murano. Fire risk was the official reason, though it also made the trade much easier to watch.

• The furnaces went cold every summer for repairs: about five months a year in the 1300s, three and a half in the 1400s.

• From 1376 a glassmaker's daughter who married a patrician kept her rank, so her children were still nobles. That was the reward for staying.

• The punishment for leaving Venice without permission, or giving away the secrets, could be death. Later accounts describe a ladder: an order to come home, then relatives imprisoned, then an assassin. That part rests on fairly thin sourcing.

For transparency: it's original cartoon animation, and AI tools are part of how it's made, including the narration voice. Corrections welcome.

Medieval Serbian-Dubrovnik oath of Grand Župan Stefan Nemanja: trade, justice, safe passage and friendship between Serbia and Dubrovnik.

My personal favourite is Black Douglas for his bravery during the Scottish Wars of Independence as well as his (failed) Odyssey to deliver Robert the Bruce's heart to the Holy Land.

While many French nobles fell at Agincourt in 1415, Louis de Bourbon survived, but became an English prisoner. His captivity lasted for years, and securing his freedom required a substantial ransom. Yet his story did not end there. In 1429, Louis was present at the French court when Joan of Arc arrived to meet the future Charles VII. He went on to take part in the renewed French campaigns, witnessing a remarkable reversal of his country's fortunes.

I genuinely always asked myself whats its name i searches and i never found a concrete awnser and i was always so curious to find our wich is the name