The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880, tr · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 127
t the same time the cervelière, eitherflat or spherical, became pointed at the top, and took the name of bassinet ;but this bassinet was unlike the casque which, in the following century, ARMS AND ARMOUR. retained that name and was made completely closed. The exact periodof the transition from… … Fg- 56-—Convex Armour of the Fifteenth Century, said to be that of Maximilian. (Museum of Artillery, Paris.) horseman serving in a campaign to have a helmet, a breastplate, gauntlets,cuishes, and leg-pieces, all of iron ; but in France and England the wholeof these pieces were not adopted until…
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