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 34
oftable was commonly long and straight, but on occasions of state it wassemicircular, or like a horse-shoe in form, recalling the Romanesque roundtable of King Artus of Brittany (Fig. 3). FURNITURE. 5 The Crusades, bringing together men of all the countries of Europe withthe people of the East,… … Fig 3.—Round Table of King Artus of Brittany, from a Miniature of the Fourteenth Centurj (MS. de la Bibl. Imp. de Paris). ground, or stretched out on carpets in the Oriental fashion, as representedand described in miniatures contained in the manuscripts of that period.The Sire de Joinville, the…
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