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 155
Tomake a knight ride upon a mare was, like the loss of his spurs, one ofthe most degrading punishments that could be inflicted on him, and thence-forth any one who regarded his own honour would no more have touchedthat disgraced knight than a shaven idiot (leper). Q 114 CARRIAGES AND SADDLERY. The… … Fig. 77.—A Knight armed and mounted for AVar. (Aluseum of Artillery, Paris. these mutilations. We have elsewhere remarked that if the men werecased in steel their horses were not less heavily cuirassed (Fig. 77).The entire armour and appointments of a horse were called the harness ; CARRIAGES AND…
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