Miscellaneous 13th- and 14th-century tent pictures

from Bob Charrette

• A 14th-century Italian military camp
• An Army Breaking Camp, showing several stages in taking down (or putting up?) a tent
• Another tent picture, with guy-ropes going through (apparently metal) grommets. As a special bonus, this picture also includes good details of a chessboard, horse tackle, and men's clothing, including a quilted arming-coat.
• Another tent picture, showing both oval pavilions, decorated with heraldry and colored stripes, and thatched A-frames or lean-to's.
• Another tent picture. This one looks fairly early -- say, 13th-century -- and shows a pyramidal tent, one with no "shoulders" at all. Good pictures of tent-stakes, mallet, and military flag.
• Sienese tents, from the cover of an accounting book from the city of Sienna, Italy, for the year 1479. It shows several round tents, with guy lines at the same angle as the roof; two rectangular tents, perhaps with guy lines at the same angle as the roof; and several low shoulderless "pup tents", simple rectangles of fabric held up by two vertical poles and staked to the ground at the edges. Note the unusual rectangular doors on both round and rectangular tents.

Back to Surviving Pictures of Medieval Tents
Back to Stephen Bloch's medieval-tents page