green man pendant medieval silvered bronze Fantasy en festival kleding which is now in Harvard's

which is now in Harvard's Peabody Museum

11th–12th century depictions show knights almost exclusively with a split in their hauberks

This is how it connects dress centuries of fashion history in one timeless design

This beautiful spatha is a replica of an early Saxon sword found in 1961

Illustrations from the 15th to 17th centuries show both large two-handed flails and shorter

green man pendant medieval silvered bronze Fantasy en festival kleding which is now in Harvard'sThis large pendant shows the motif of the 'Green Man', a man's head whose hair and beard are formed from leaves. The motif was characteristic of the sacred art of the high and late Gothic, in which a pagan image continued to live on within a Christian context. The origins of the Green Man reach back to pre Christian times and connect two Celtic traditions: the head cult, in which the head was considered the bearer of all life force, and the mistletoe