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 137
any one who regarded his own honour would no more have touched thatdisgraced knight than a leper. The horses of French knio-hts were without ears or mane ; those of the 92 CARRIAGES AND SADDLERY. Germans without tails. According to Carrion-Xisas, tlie armour of the horse,and the style in which it… … Fig. 77.—A Knight armed and mounted. (Artillery Museum, Paris.) ments of a horse were called the harness; the plates of steel or leather (forleather also was often used) were called hardes. AYe find enumerated, not onlythe articles of which the harness consisted—chanfrein, nasal, flancois,…
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