English Heretics

Welcome to the English Heretics Homepage. Here we have assembled a selection of line drawings, portraying late medieval european military costume of the 14th and 15th centuries AD. The collection is by no means complete, this is not a history of european armour.

Rather, this is meant to show historical alternatives to the 'standard shirt, hose and doublet' school of medieval costume. Mercenaries in particular, widely used by most late medieval armies, would have dressed in a variety of national styles notably different from that of the 'host' army.

The drawings are based on period sources, ie. funerary brasses, paintings and manuscripts. We have not included a bibliography, as most of the descriptions state the sources on which they are based.

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