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How the Grafs Trapp Acquired the Armour of the Vogts of Matsch

12 Friday Jun 2015

Posted by Sean Manning in Medieval, Modern

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medieval, modern, not_an_expert, Schloss Churburg, Vinschgau

No energy to be poetic sorry

Schloss Churburg as seen from a third-story balcony outside the walls of Glorenza. Photo by Sean Manning.


Most weeks I post about things which I have seen or read myself, about domains in which I have reason to consider myself an expert, and refer to supporting evidence which my gentle readers can check if they doubt me.  This is a kind of history which began to take shape in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries along with other kinds of modern science.  It is certainly not the only way to tell stories about the past.  So this week I decided to try something more Herodotean.  What I will tell you this week comes from people met here and things read there, and I think that it tells something important, but in the end it is still a story about things long ago and far away, and just because it is great fun does not mean that every detail is true.  This is the story of how the Grafs Trapp acquired Schloss Churburg and the armour of the Vogts of Matsch.

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