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Miniatures Adventure => Medieval Adventures => Topic started by: Koppi on October 04, 2016, 02:51:01 PM

Title: Bretten 1504 - A siege
Post by: Koppi on October 04, 2016, 02:51:01 PM

Every year after the saint’s day of St. Peter and St. Paul there is a great medieval show in the small town Bretten, near Karlsruhe in Germany.
The pictures you can see in the report are from this year. I visited the fair on saturday the 2.7. and sunday the 3.7.
And yes. I have had a lot of fun.
There are a lot of films and pictures to see. Text in english and german.

Have fun with the pictures.

http://thrifles.blogspot.de/2016/10/bretten-1504-eine-belagerung.html

(https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jT9AyUyYuX0/V90JSFhhmTI/AAAAAAAAGrU/jRtn50WdzCgia7VLlPNhy2Y2hFnc5dieQCEw/s1600/10.jpg)

Title: Re: Bretten 1504 - A siege
Post by: Engel on October 04, 2016, 03:02:34 PM

Nice  :)

Title: Re: Bretten 1504 - A siege
Post by: Totleben on October 04, 2016, 03:14:39 PM

One of my favourites among the wars of succession.  o_o

Title: Re: Bretten 1504 - A siege
Post by: wolfkarl on October 04, 2016, 05:37:47 PM

Great post, thank you.

Title: Re: Bretten 1504 - A siege
Post by: Fletcher on October 17, 2016, 08:19:49 PM

Fantastic, thank you for sharing.

I guess I have another project to start looking into now ;)

Title: Re: Bretten 1504 - A siege
Post by: Koppi on October 17, 2016, 08:55:46 PM

Quote from: Fletcher on October 17, 2016, 08:19:49 PM

Fantastic, thank you for sharing.

I guess I have another project to start looking into now ;)

Just do it. I will follow your thread too. ;)

Title: Re: Bretten 1504 - A siege
Post by: Fletcher on October 23, 2016, 02:07:52 PM

Does anyone know of any books to help my knowledge of this particular era of European medieval history?

What would you consider essential reading?

Title: Re: Bretten 1504 - A siege
Post by: Stavros on October 23, 2016, 04:09:15 PM

Nice. I do medieval battle reenactment 1390-1440. Love the Landsknechts but unfortunately they are not as popular as earlier 15th stuff and certainly hardly any groups in the UK.

Title: Re: Bretten 1504 - A siege
Post by: Koppi on October 23, 2016, 07:53:43 PM

@Fletcher
For a first reading, I would vote for the different Ospreys of that period.

@ Stavros
I think for the english people your reenactment period is much more interesting because of the 100 years war. In Germany the High Middle Age of the 13. century is the most prominent time I would say, followed by the Landsknecht period.