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Medieval Rock Star, XIII c.

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An ironic depiction of Ulrich von Lichtenstein (d. 1275), the famous german knight and poet, author of a long poem about jousting for love (Frauendienst, "In the service of the Lady"), making his entrance in a tournament, surrounded by his screaming fans. Ulrich is dressed as shown in the 1300's Manesse Code. The armour was slightly modified from the original source to make it fitting for the half of the XIII c.: the helm in particular is taken from the illustrazions of the Maciejowski bible. Altough curious and probably excessive, his crest, representing a fair Lady, wouldn't have been impossible to be seen at a tournament. Knights would have probably been dressed as glamorously as they could, just take a look at the Pranckh helm from the XIV century: there is no reason to believe knights wouldn't have fallen victims of fashion fifty years later, even if XIII century tournament were still a gritty, brutal thing, with sometimes wounded and dead.

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Una rappresentazione ironica di Ulrich von Lichtenstein (morto nel 1275), il famoso poeta e cavaliere tedesco, autore di un lungo poema sul giostrare per la propria dama, il Frauendienst, mentre fa il suo ingresso in un torneo, circondato dai suoi fan urlanti. Ulrich è vestito come illustrato nel codice Manesse del 1300, anche se la sua armatura è stata leggermente modificata dall'illustrazione principale perchè potesse essere coerente a un'armatura di metà duecento: in particolare l'elmo è ripreso dalle illustrazioni della bibbia Maciejowski, scritta proprio in quel periodo. Pur essendo curiosa e forse eccessiva, la decorazione con la dama sull'elmo di Ulrich non sarebbe stata probabilmente così fuoriluogo in un torneo: se lo facevano nel XIV secolo - verificare con l'elmo Pranckh- niente vieta di credere che anche cinquant'anni prima i cavalieri probabilmente si vestissero il più splendidamente possibile in queste occasioni mondane, anche se ancora, nella metà del milleduecento, i tornei consistevano ancora, principalmente, in zuffe violentissime con frequenti morti e feriti.
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Zeonista's avatar
This is a funny picture, but I cannot gainsay that Ulrich von Lichtenstein was popular, a real fashion plate, and would have won a following among the gentry and the rising German urban class who imitated them. He seems to have been the sort of fellow who would play to the crowd and grand-stand, but still not come across as arrogant or insulting.