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Fire Stryker
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posted 05-20-2003 09:26 AM     Profile for Fire Stryker   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
This is from a 2000 post. Mainly because I don't like loose ends.

The original discussion is about tent construction and decoration methods.
http://www.wolfeargent.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=7&t=000038

As things tend to do, we meander and eventually a tent came up with horses in it.

This image is a contemporary 15th c. drawing by the artist known as Master WA who made many illustrations of the Burgundians in the field or at drill. It was felt that the tent was perhaps merely for saddling rather than actually stabling the animals. In an excerpt from F.J. Finot's work and J. Garnier's it seems that tents or pieces of them were used to stable horses.

French Text:

quote:
...,3 pavillons et une tente pour le Duc, 400 pavillons pour les companies d'ordannance et les gens de l'hôtel du Duc, 350 etables neves, 26 tentes à 2 mâts, 7 pièces de tentes pour l'écurie du Duc, 2 tentes de guet,...

Translation: (per Robert D. Smith from his article GOOD AND BOLD: A late 15th-century artillary train, Royal Armouries Yearbook 6 2001, pg. 99 (he cites both Finot and Garnier in his article)

quote:
..., 3 pavilons, and a tent for the Duke, 400 pavilons for the companies of the ordannance and the gentlemen of the household of the Duke, 350 new sheds/stables[I think this is a mistranslation that it is actually cattlesheds; l'ecurie is "stable"-Jenn], 26 tents with two poles, 7 pieces of tents for the Duke's stable, 2 tents for the watch,...

This is by no means suggesting a norm, just indicating that it was done at least to some degree in the Burgundian army even if it only means that sections were used, but I think the firsthand image suggests that tents and not just pieces were used.

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