Art in an Early Global World at WAM: A WAM/College of the Holy Cross CollaborationMain MenuAmanda Luyster17d39c1ecea88fb7ff282fe74a410b89478b8327Created by the Worcester Art Museum and the College of the Holy Cross, with the Worcester Public Schools AP Art History class of 2024. Financial support provided by the Medieval Academy of America and "Scholarship in Action" at Holy Cross.
What does this Composite Stechzeug tell us about the early global world?
1media/DP107158.jpg2024-03-28T13:30:35-07:00Richard Lent3e723f35a685aebf07b8b602f188f085f3fa0c8f448015image_header2024-10-30T09:46:25-07:00Erica Belden2c58317b5121252bb69543f897890ff8473677c5Jousting was not just a European sport. For instance, the manuscript above shows a joust in a manuscript made in Iran c. 1525-30, around the same time as the Composite Stechzeug was made. However, this set of German jousting armor witnesses Europe's transformation in the 1400s and 1500s. Tournaments had been part of medieval European culture for centuries, and this armor is the culmination of hundreds of years of technological development focused on safety in military contexts, with its flexible joints, adjustable sightline, and different strengths of metal carefully modified throughout the suit. Over the course of the previous five hundred years, Europeans had converted armed cavalry charges into tournament spectacles in which nobles and knights could participate at a much lower risk of injury or death than in the past. The jousting armor also shows the wealth and power of the Holy Roman Empire in Renaissance Europe.
Zachary Barney, Class of 2025, College of the Holy Cross
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