I would like to share with you my hobby
Maybe there is someone equaly weird as I'm or maybe someone after seeing what I'm going to say/show will "feel it"
So... I'm part of a reanactment group which deals with Late Roman Empire period.
You may say that we don't look like Romans. I mean the general hollywood look aka "Asterix & Obelix".
Well we don't becasue Romans of taht period did not look like this. This whole hollywood is based on a time frame of 200 years, mainly between I - III AD, while Rome history has over 1000 years so... Don't belive that Romans with short swords, big shields and segmented armor are the only Romans becasue they are not
What's the difference between our late period (IV - V AD) and classic Romans? First of all we are damn rich
Most of the helmets from that period were covered with silver or gold completly opposite to the helmets from I - III AD.
This helmet costs around... 6-9k euro
(depends on a situation but im my currecny it is about 30-35k PLN / 1PLN - 4,40 currently but year ago it was 3,70 so.. Well, point is you can but a new car
)
And here is mine, the middle one:
Our clothes are also damn rich
100% hand made embroidery
This late period is not as known like the classic look mainly becasue of the movies but it's much more colorful, rich and beautiful.
Each year during season which is May - September we travel around the Europe for events. We live in tents and simply we show how the life was 1500 years ago.
This year we were in Denmark and Austria. In Austria there was really huge event which mainly was focued on a scenarion of early christian marriage and I was the groom
Just for clarification, it wasn't real wedding (we knew this) but visitor did not
So you can see me here acting as a groom
It was like 300 visitors walking behind the whole ceremony - it was really insane.
Our group is not only military group. Each of us has some craft, we also have women in group.
For example, I'm the guy who writes things in latin. (you can see a scratch of my cheek made by sword during battle)
But when it comes to the battle with early romans I can also turn into barbarian
That's all. Small overwiev of my hobby.
I will try to update this topic with some cool stuff from time to time.
Hope that some of you will enjoy this
If you have any questions, feel free