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European slingers, 11th-13th centuries

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    Posted: 06-May-2016 at 00:32
Illustrations of European slingers and staff-slingers, 11th-13th centuries

You would expect to see a slinger in 'David & Goliath' but there are many illustrations of medieval slingers such as:

Anglo-Saxon slinger in 'God's Covenant with Abram' from Ælfric's Hexateuch, 2nd quarter of the 11th century
Spanish staff-slingers in 'Fighting around Bethulia' from the Roda Bible, c.1050-1100AD
Spanish staff-slingers in 'Army of Antiochus V' from the Roda Bible, c.1050-1100AD
French slinger in 'David and Goliath' from the Bible of Saint Stephen Harding, 1109-1111AD
'David and Goliath' from the Melisende Psalter, Jerusalem, 1131-1143AD
Spanish slinger in 'David and Goliath' from the Biblia Segunde de San Isidoro de Leon, 1162AD
English slinger in the 'Life of David' from the Winchester Bible, c.1160–1180AD
Spanish slinger in the Rylands Beatus, Commentary on the Apocalypse by Beatus of Liébana, c.1175
From Liber ad honorem Augusti by Pietro da Eboli, c.1197
..Sicilian staff-slinger in 'Fighting at Salerno'
..Sicilian slinger in 'The people of Salerno attack the palace'
..Sicilian slinger in 'Assault by the Salerni on the Terracina Palace'
..Sicilian slinger in 'Salerno attacked by the imperial troops'
Staff-slingers in the 'Siege of Damietta' from the Chronica Majora by Matthew Paris, 1240–53AD
French slinger in 'David and Goliath' from the Morgan or Maciejowski Bible, mid 13th Century
French slinger in 'Uriah is Slain' from the Morgan or Maciejowski Bible, mid 13th Century
The Islamic Defenders of Ciutat de Mallorca, including a staff-slinger, 1285-1290

As David is traditionally shieldless, this probably skews down the proportion of slingers depicted with shields.

Ian Heath based his slingers in Armies of Feudal Europe 1066-1300 on some of the illuminations above.

Druzhina
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