Chivalrous knights in the age of steam: heraldic harness mounts of 19th-century Scandinavia

• Martin Rundkvist ^[1] ; Magnus Green
  1. [1] University of Łódź

     University of Łódź

     Łódź, Polonia

     
• Localización: Post-medieval archaeology, ISSN 0079-4236, Vol. 55, Nº. 3, 2021, págs. 315-321
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Copper alloy fittings depicting a plumed knight’s helmet have recently begun showing up among Scandinavian metal detector finds. Museum parallels suggest that they belong to carriage harness and date from the early nineteenth century. At this time the nobility lost ancient privileges, craft guilds were abolished, steam power was being harnessed and literary Romanticism focused attention on the Middle Ages and imagined knightly virtues