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Guest - Beatrix Sprang Discussion
15. September 2026
That lozenge pattern element is not a photograph, but a scan. So it should be to scale. But I pinned...
Guest - Katrin Sprang Discussion
15. September 2026
I was not referring to Rachel's reconstruction (is the reconstruction you refer to the one photograp...
Guest - Beatrix Sprang Discussion
14. September 2026
There is something Rachel did not mention. She told me: "Well, I worked with the measurements we too...
Guest - Katrin Sprang Discussion
14. September 2026
Well, this is certainly developing into an interesting discussion. Firstly, going from that lovely l...
Guest - Beatrix Sprang Discussion
12. September 2026
And pictorial sources show that this type of headdress was not only worn by women, but also by some ...

More Sprang Headwear.

As the blog software somehow refused to take the comment, I received mail from Beatrix where she tells me that it's not only fourteen, but 24 items on the list of occurrences in the article. 

Well, well, well. I had been so focused on the first page (which included the references to the re-drawn women's depictions) that I did forget to check the second page - where, indeed, there are more non-executioners, but mostly wrestlers and fencers. 

There are more executioners on the first page, but that does indeed shift things a little. There's definitely much fewer executioners in the later of the sources listed, dating to the late 1490s and later,  than to the middle of the 1490s (which is why I wrote about it being mostly executioners before), but overall it's a rather short timespan, and it would probably need more individual sources to see if there's a shift in who is wearing the pieces, or whether it is just a (random) selection effect.

Beatrix has also given the link to the digital version available on her researchgate account, so you can read it for yourselves.

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