Friday, April 22, 2011

Medieval Depictions of the Trojan War

Found this, cant find any reference to it or who painted it or anything. Found it just on some website that had a conglomeration of Trojan War pictures. It is obviously medieval. That is about all that is known. I thought it was an interesting depiction of the Trojan Hors, then again most medieval era Trojan war depictions are interesting...




This one is supposed to be Hector saying goodybe to his wife and son before he faces Achilles...





Monday, April 4, 2011

11th century Anglo-Saxon World Map





"Unsurprisingly, Britain itself is depicted in some detail. Great Britain, unusually by medieval standards, is shown as one island, albeit with an exaggerated Cornish promontory, and Mona, Ireland and the many Scottish islands are all indicated. The cartographer is slightly confused by Iceland, depicting it both by a version of its classical name 'Thule', north-west of Britain, and as 'Island', logically linked with Scandinavia."