The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1875)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 130
ne, recalling the early armour abandoned for the coat ofmail, was composed of small plates of steel or iron arranged on a strongpiece of leather, and stitched or fixed with Mire, in the form of thescales of a hsh. A decree of Peter II., Duke of Brittany, issued in 1450,ordered the nobles to equip… … Fig. 59.—Knights in complete Armour, with the Salade. (End of Fifteenth Century.) A Single Combat,taken from The Triumph of Maximilian, bj Burgmayer, after a drawing by Albert Diirer. and to have two good horses. The guisarme was a sort of two-edged andpointed javelin. The cou.sfiiiier was a…
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