A Medieval Paper Armoury with Chassica Kirchhoff
The Medieval Podcast

A Medieval Paper Armoury with Chassica Kirchhoff

B2Upper-intermediateJuly 2, 202646 min
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To picture the Middle Ages is to picture knights in shining armour. Custom-made, fashionable, and often beautiful, medieval armour was more than just practical: it was art. And in the late Middle Ages, a collection of talented artists captured the functional elegance of armour on paper. This week, Danièle speaks with Chassica Kirchhoff about armour as protection, art, and memorial in the Thun-Hohenstein Album. This podcast is made possible by the generous support of listeners like you! To find out how to help spread the joy of medieval history, please visit patreon.com/themedievalpodcast

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So this is a book that really spans a critical moment within the Golden Age of armor as well as its kind of afterglow through the Renaissance and early modern period.

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That makes two of us. So, okay, we're talking about a specific book which we're going to get to in a second. Tell us when and where we're talking about in the creation of this book. So this is a book that really spans a critical moment within the Golden Age of armor as well as its kind of afterglow through the Renaissance and early modern period. So my book focuses on the Thunhoenstein album, which is a bound collection of 112 drawings of armor encasing people or in pieces.

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And the earliest of those drawings was created around the 1470s, and the latest was created probably around 1590. And the whole thing was bound together at the very beginning of the 1600s. So we really do get this wide spectrum of material culture,

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of sort of cultural development within the concept of the nightly identity. But most of the images focus on the reign of Emperor Maximilian I. So Maximilian

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