There’s plenty of pages that show lots and lots of medieval pavilions. This set of links focuses on images of people setting up pavilions – which provides more clues as to how they might have been constructed.

If you’d like to construct your own medieval tent or pavilion, visit these links.

• Encampment before Damascus, Chroniques de France ou de Saint Denis (British Library Royal 16 G VI, fol. 323r), second quarter of the 14th century
• Encampment of the Greeks, The Trojan War (ÖNB 2773, fol. 110v), c. 1445-1450
• Encampment in the Book of the Conquests and Deeds of Alexander (Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris L.Dut.456, fol. 64v), mid-15th century
• Sigismondo Malatesta's army prepares to decamp, Hesperides (Canon. Class. Lat. 81, fol. 49v), c. 1457-1468
• Siege, Renaud de Montauban (BNF Arsenal 5073, fol. 60r), c. 1468-1470
• Hannibal's passage through the Apennines, Romuleon (BNF Fr. 364, fol. 125r), c. 1485-1490
• Detail from Leopold der Milde section of an altarpiece, c. 1489-1492