Silly Helmets from the Middle Ages June 2, 2016
Author: Beach Combing | in : Medieval , trackback
As he reported in an earlier post Beach has recently been looking through the various volumes of medieval armour and arms, particularly those of Guy Francis Laking (all online and all free if you have time and inclination). Last time he did crests. This time he thought that he would try silly hats. It goes without saying that most of this stuff comes from the decadent later Middle Ages and some of these awful objects will have been so treasured that they will not have been worn in battle, where, God forbid, they could have got dented. Beach has headed the post with the absolute jewel in the crown of early modern silliness. It is all wonderful but the immaterial glasses perched on a big nose perhaps clinch it for the silliest helmet ever made. The others are worth enjoying too, though. Here is another ‘grotesque’ piece, and a rather unhappy one. It might be suggested that the fake eyes mislead an attacker, but if you aiming a blow there and you get through, you will do damage.
Then Mr Happy for contrast.
And Mr Down in the Dumps (but I’ll kill you anyway)
The next helmet seems to be a newt or a science fiction creature or perhaps these are savage tusks protruding? Wish we had a front shot here.
On the subject of tusks, a beautiful wild boar, the only one that this blogger would kill and be killed in.
This lion is also beautiful (the helm has been tipped forwards apparently?)
And this is in a minor key, but there is something about the Hannibal Lecter mouth here
Other weird helmets: drbeachcombing At yahoo DOT com
