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Zupani Dragoslava Dragijavic of Kraljevina Srebija (Serbian)

A re-drawing of a the original Medieval Serbian Woman Warrior as part of the Historically Wrong Sketch Series: Medieval Revisited which aims to portray Women Warriors of various cultures in a fictitious historical settings based on AD 800s - AD 1400s era of warfare. The name Kraljevina Srebija is the name in the series used to refer the Historical Kingdom of Serbia in the middle ages as well as Serbian Empire at its height in the 14th century.

Inspired by the Music: Hail Caranthir - Witcher 3 OST

INTRODUCTION

The history of medieval Serbia is perhaps very little known outside the Balkan Region. In fact, the history of the rest of the Balkan world remains a much less popular subject, being only assumed as the place where crusaders pass trough and occasionally, loot and came in conflict with. Little do we know, that in this small pocket of the region, lies a history of Ambition and Warfare that turned simple, poor cattle-raising Serbians into a powerful kingdom and eventually, won themselves an empire in the 14th century.

DRAWING COMMENTARIES

The history of medieval Serbia is perhaps very little known outside the Balkan region. In fact, the history of the rest of the Balkan world remains a much less popular subject, being only assumed as the place where crusaders pass trough and occasionally, loot and came in conflict with. This is one of the reason why drawing representation of the Balkan cultures sounded intriguing for myself and Serbia is one of the few cultures which I found pretty interesting to study for the Historically Wrong Sketch series.

Technically speaking, Serbia became an independent sovereign of her own right in the 12th century as Kingdom of Serbia under Stefan Nemaja. Most of their military equipments by this time were mostly Byzantine influenced, though the later centuries saw increasing adoption of western arms and armor imported from Italy, Ragusa and perhaps German world. By the 14th century, the Serbian army composed of local raised feudal levy, mostly in eastern fashion, while many of the rich nobles fashion themselves in western arm and armors and fought as heavy cavalry. There were also Greeks, Vlachs, and Albanians who fought in their ranks, as well as western mercenaries from Spain (catalan) and German world.

This vibrant and multi-ethnic fashion of late medieval Serbia is depicted in the drawing of Lady Dragoslava, albeit with stylization and anachronism. Her brimmed kettle helmet, along with the big gorget is based on contemporary depictions, though the lamellar shoulder guard attached to the gorget is my own stylization which may not be historically accurate. She is equipped with a sabre, a mace and a dagger, all of which are based on findings from 15th century, though the sabre itself may have been eastern, turkic or perhaps of mongol influence. On the other hand, the motif decoration on her clothing is purely my artistic license.

In the background, her Albanian retinue on the left is depicted in byzantine fashion, again, with stylization on my part. This includes scale cuirass, kettle helment with mail coif, as well as spear with kite-like shield. As for the heavily armed knight on the right, he could either be a rich Serbian lord or western mercenary fighting for our Lady. The western armaments are based on late 14th century Italian Milanese houndskull bascinet, mixed with coat of plate over mail and splint gauntlents. The two men are purely my own artistic touch, so are the men in the background and their banners, all added to make the drawing more dramatized.

SEE OTHER RELATED WOMEN WARRIORS OF THE SERIES

Early Slav, Magyar, Bulgarian and the Eastern Roman/Byzantine Empire

A Part of the Historically Wrong Sketch Series: Medieval Revisited - You can find more on the various faction on the map here:

Description

Zupani Dragoslava Dragijavic of Kraljevina Srebija (Serbian)

A re-drawing of a the original Medieval Serbian Woman Warrior as part of the Historically Wrong Sketch Series: Medieval Revisited which aims to portray Women Warriors of various cultures in a fictitious historical settings based on AD 800s - AD 1400s era of warfare. The name Kraljevina Srebija is the name in the series used to refer the Historical Kingdom of Serbia in the middle ages as well as Serbian Empire at its height in the 14th century.

Inspired by the Music: Hail Caranthir - Witcher 3 OST

INTRODUCTION

The history of medieval Serbia is perhaps very little known outside the Balkan Region. In fact, the history of the rest of the Balkan world remains a much less popular subject, being only assumed as the place where crusaders pass trough and occasionally, loot and came in conflict with. Little do we know, that in this small pocket of the region, lies a history of Ambition and Warfare that turned simple, poor cattle-raising Serbians into a powerful kingdom and eventually, won themselves an empire in the 14th century.

DRAWING COMMENTARIES

The history of medieval Serbia is perhaps very little known outside the Balkan region. In fact, the history of the rest of the Balkan world remains a much less popular subject, being only assumed as the place where crusaders pass trough and occasionally, loot and came in conflict with. This is one of the reason why drawing representation of the Balkan cultures sounded intriguing for myself and Serbia is one of the few cultures which I found pretty interesting to study for the Historically Wrong Sketch series.

Technically speaking, Serbia became an independent sovereign of her own right in the 12th century as Kingdom of Serbia under Stefan Nemaja. Most of their military equipments by this time were mostly Byzantine influenced, though the later centuries saw increasing adoption of western arms and armor imported from Italy, Ragusa and perhaps German world. By the 14th century, the Serbian army composed of local raised feudal levy, mostly in eastern fashion, while many of the rich nobles fashion themselves in western arm and armors and fought as heavy cavalry. There were also Greeks, Vlachs, and Albanians who fought in their ranks, as well as western mercenaries from Spain (catalan) and German world.

This vibrant and multi-ethnic fashion of late medieval Serbia is depicted in the drawing of Lady Dragoslava, albeit with stylization and anachronism. Her brimmed kettle helmet, along with the big gorget is based on contemporary depictions, though the lamellar shoulder guard attached to the gorget is my own stylization which may not be historically accurate. She is equipped with a sabre, a mace and a dagger, all of which are based on findings from 15th century, though the sabre itself may have been eastern, turkic or perhaps of mongol influence. On the other hand, the motif decoration on her clothing is purely my artistic license.

In the background, her Albanian retinue on the left is depicted in byzantine fashion, again, with stylization on my part. This includes scale cuirass, kettle helment with mail coif, as well as spear with kite-like shield. As for the heavily armed knight on the right, he could either be a rich Serbian lord or western mercenary fighting for our Lady. The western armaments are based on late 14th century Italian Milanese houndskull bascinet, mixed with coat of plate over mail and splint gauntlents. The two men are purely my own artistic touch, so are the men in the background and their banners, all added to make the drawing more dramatized.

SEE OTHER RELATED WOMEN WARRIORS OF THE SERIES

Early Slav, Magyar, Bulgarian and the Eastern Roman/Byzantine Empire

A Part of the Historically Wrong Sketch Series: Medieval Revisited - You can find more on the various faction on the map here: