barefootliamFeb 4, 2023

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Casabo-LaCivilizacion-3/pages/261-knights/

Crusaders attacking Jerusalem, from a book of history of [Western] Civilization (Barcelona, 1881).

I'm not sure about climbing a wooden siege-ladder wearing metal ring-mail & carrying a flag-pole, nor about pointing a sword menacingly at a man with a bow, but it's the fantasy of raising the flag over enemy territory.

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Crusaders conquor Jerusalem

A knight in ring-mail holds the Crusaders’ flag aloft on the top of a castle wall. He points a sword at some defending bowmen just as another knight, climing a siege ladder to be next to him, is shot

barefootliamFeb 3, 2023

Death in a Castle or Roman palace

Engraved after a painting by Fusté, although i’m not sure who that was. Published in 1881.

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Casabo-LaCivilizacion-3/pages/013-murder-in-the-castle-throne-room/

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Murder in the Castle

This engraving (i think) actually shows the discovery of the body of the Roman emperor Nero just after he had killed himself, but i am far from certain; the men’s swords are drawn. There are three