Skyrim hide bow and quiver12/18/2023 ![]() Medieval art hardly aspires to the same level of ‘realism’ and accuracy as say, art from the Dutch Golden Age. So while the buildings are recognizable, and show architectural details which were in style at the time, there was definitely a high level of stylization in ancient art. These two structures exist more or less unchanged to this day (The merlons on the tower are more modern, and the buildings to the right of the temple and the left of the tower were built after the painting, which dates roughly to 1295-1299). In the basilica of Assisi, there is this painting attributed to Giotto (L’ Omaggio dell’uomo semplice), depicting the Temple of Minerva and the tower of the communal palace: Or they did it simply for the heck of it. Ancient art, just like modern art, often used visual shorthand for common motifs. Slightly OT, but just to those saying that medieval art wasn’t representational: It most certainly was, at least to a certain extant. I think that’s great for Warhorse and for us as gamers since that would result in a bigger pool of possibilites and options concerning weapon design. So far I saw both Central/Western European and Eastern European (mainly Hungarian) influences in comtemporary paintings. That’s the design of such a stand-by quiver (which shows quite some similarities with quivers from the far East like medieval China…):Įdit: It could quite possibly be that Bohemia as the political and cultural centere of the HRE in 1400 brought together and mixed different types of weapons and weapon designs from various places and cultural backgrounds. It’s even very likely that they used up to three quivers in battle since unlike the infantry English archers for example they couldn’t just get new arrows directly in battle (brought to them by servants) and so they had to take as much arrows with them on horseback as possible. ![]() ![]() In an actual battle situation the mounted archers from the Middle East and Hungary used another quiver, some sort of a stand-by quiver. Often you could close the quiver to protect arrows from getting wet and stuff. By the way, the quiver shown in the picture wasn’t really made for combat/battle but for transportation. So both the quivers and the bows in the picture have an “Asian” design originally made for mounted combat by nomads and not a European design. ![]() And often they apparently just put arrows in their belt without any quiver if needed. English longbow archers for example used an arrow bag in battle at the time with the arrow tips downwards and another design (someone published a picture and description of the arrow bag above). Before that the design is at least known from the Tartars. ![]() The design of bows and quivers was probably brought to Hungary by the Cumans in the 12. The Hungarian Magyar and especially the Cuman weaponry was almost entirely inspired by the riding nomads of the Middle East and Asia and not by central European innovations and techniques. Little detail that can be easily overseen.Īt least the right quiver is round and covers the entire arrow with the tip upwards which is a quite good indication that its origins lied in the Middle East or in Hungary (the whole form of the quiver looks like that). The quiver gets wider at the bottom, to give room for the feathers. What you can see here very good is, that in this type of quiver, especially in those for bolts, the arrows/bolts are in it with the arrowhead to the top. ![]()
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