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 27
^ stated, is an explanation—we admit, rather concise—of thetransition connecting the characteristics of the society of olden days withthose of modern society. Society in the Middle Ages—that social epoch which may be comparedto the state of a decrepid and worn-out old man, w^ho, after a long, dull … Fig. I-—The Curule Chair called the Fauteuil de Dagobert, in gilt bronze, now in the Musee de Souverains.* torpor awakes to new life like an active and vigorous child—society in theMiddle Ages inherited much from preceding times. It transformed, perhaps ;and it perfected, rather than invented; but…
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