Infort Editions - Budziszyn 1029

 Salvete Omnes,

[Polish] 

 z drukarni właśnie schodzi najnowsza produkcja Wydawnictwa InfortEditions - Budziszyn 1029 (seria Pola Bitew), autorstwa dr Mariusza Sampa, opisująca działania wojenne z okresu panowania syna wielkiego piastowskiego witezia i króla polskiego Bolesława Chrobrego -   Jego Królewską Mość Mieszka II zwanego Lambertem. Do tejże pracy miałem przyjemność  wykonać scenkę na okładkę, pokazująca walczących jeźdźców z epoki.
Przy rekonstrukcji w dużej mierze oparłem się na pracach Igora D. Górewicza - tutaj zwlaszcza 'O Broni Slowian' (wydana przez Triglav i Wydawnictwo Poznanskie w 2020) i śledzeniu rekonstrukcji piastowskich i zachodniosłowiańskich rożnych drużyn działających obecnie w Polsce.

 [English]

I am pleased to share with you my newest creation for the Polish publisher  InfortEditions - the cover of Budziszyn 1029AD.  The volume belongs to the series 'Fields of battle' and covers the campaign by His Royal Majesty Mieszko II against the forces of Holy Roman Emperor Conrad II the Salic. The campaign took place in Lusitia, then a part of the Piast  Kingdom of Poland.

I consulted various Igor D. Gorewicz's works, especially O Broni Slowian (2020) and Wojownicy Slowian (2019), and actual reconstructions done by the various Polish  reenactment groups, those recreating Piast and Western Slavic warriors and their world. 

also, on Academia there are archaeological works by various Polish and German archaeologists on these early Piast and Western Slavic subjects - eg by Leszek Gardela or Kamil Kajkowski.

Valete

ps

w przyszłości zdaje sie zmierzę się z tematem wyprawy wojsk władcy Polski Piastowskiej Bolesława Krzywoustego  na Czechy w 1110 roku.

Vrancx from Krakow National Museum

Salvete Omnes,

in addition to the better quality scans/photos of the Warsaw Vrancx paintings there is available a  larger copy of the Vrancx painting from the National Museum at Krakow, Poland, 
The painting - Battlefield- can be viewed directly on the Krakow museum site

or

on Wiki Commons - link .

Enjoy

Valete

Vrancx from Polish National Museum

Salvete Omnes,

AD 2021 slow restart, but here it goes 

recently the National Museum at Warsaw, Poland, added some very nice large resolution photos of the some of Sebastian Vrancx' paintings - eg  Attack on a convoy.

Wiki Commons' user uploaded the artwork there too -  here is the link

to the Convoy painting.

 

Another painting is Assault on a town.  Wiki Commons also has a digital copy.

Lots of interesting information and ideas on these fine period painting.

Valete

Magi from Menologion of Basil II, emperor of Romaioi

 Salvete Omnes,

my first post of the new 2021 - 

so today we celebrate the Feast of Epiphany.
In this blog tradition let me share some images related to the Adoration of Magi.
This time I will share some images from the Menologion of Basil II, the warrior emperor of Romaioi(Eastern Romans) of the Macedonian dynasty, also known as the Bulgar slayer. But he also fought the Fatimid Empire, destroyed the Khazar khanate (in cooperation with the Kievan forces), and , and re

and along this religious theme of the Adoration of Magi  we can observe two images of horses and horse tack, and even saddles from the period - circa 975 AD of late X century - also a mule or a donkey ridden by St. John Chrysostom.

 

and Basil II in his glory

 

and his empire crica 1025AD - largest since the Islamic and nomadic conquests.

this good period was to begin to unravel in 1071, the year of the great defeat.

Valete!

ps

Osprey Publishing has several books dealing with the cavalrymen of the Macedonian dynasty period in the Byzantine history. Tim Dawson is the author of one of them - Byzantine Cavalryman of 900-1206AD.One of his articles- Byzantine soldiers' equipment - is freely available.