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 151
CARRIAGES AND SADDLERY. chariot races, which took place at the solemn games in Greece, have alwaysbeen justly celebrated ; as were those which continued in Rome and in allthe great cities of the Roman world until the fifth or sixth century. We are disposed to believe that the use of the… … Fig. 72.—The Carruca, or Pleasure-Carriage, drawn by a Pair of Horses, dating from the Fifth to the TenthCentury. (Taken from a MS. of the Ninth Century, in the Royal Library at Brussels.) carriage-horse was introduced about the same time. But it seems thatchariots were rarely mounted by any but…
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