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 136
ial every mounted hoi>e felt the spur,there was at least a period when every sort of spur eould not he indiserimi-nately applied to the flanks of eaeh individual of the ecjuine race. Thereare,* says Jhunetto Latini, a writer of the thirteenth century, in his * Trea-sury of all Things —a sort of… … Fig. 76.—Italian Spur were also called amblers and hackneys; others employ pack-horses, courfants(cropped horses), to carry a load {somme). Somme here signities a burden,and this, which we now call baggage, consisted of spare arms and hauberk,which a knight was careful to take with him when he went…
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