The arts in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (1886)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London : J.S. Virtue & Co. · leaf 113
t in use in France at this period. It had the double advantage ofbeing drawn ^^ith more power than the ordinary bow, and of throwing itsbolts with greater precision, and a lower trajectory. Historians say that atCrecy, in 134G, there were fifteen thousand crossbow-inen in the Frencharmy. The… … Fig. 52.—Knight in his Hauberk (after Meyrick). long, hanging sleeves. While the bowmen had both hands occu2:)ied in dis-charging their arrows, shield-bearers were employed to protect them (Fig. 57).Under John the Good, that is in the middle of the fourteenth century,plate armour was generally…
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