{"title":"Chivalrous knights in the age of steam: heraldic harness mounts of 19th-century Scandinavia","authors":"M. Rundkvist, M. Green","doi":"10.1080/00794236.2021.1978238","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"SUMMARY: Copper alloy fittings depicting a plumed knight’s helmet have recently begun showing up among Scandinavian metal detector finds. Museum parallels suggest that they belong to carriage harness and date from the early nineteenth century. At this time the nobility lost ancient privileges, craft guilds were abolished, steam power was being harnessed and literary Romanticism focused attention on the Middle Ages and imagined knightly virtues.","PeriodicalId":43560,"journal":{"name":"Post-Medieval Archaeology","volume":"55 1","pages":"315 - 321"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Post-Medieval Archaeology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00794236.2021.1978238","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"ARCHAEOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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SUMMARY: Copper alloy fittings depicting a plumed knight’s helmet have recently begun showing up among Scandinavian metal detector finds. Museum parallels suggest that they belong to carriage harness and date from the early nineteenth century. At this time the nobility lost ancient privileges, craft guilds were abolished, steam power was being harnessed and literary Romanticism focused attention on the Middle Ages and imagined knightly virtues.