Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Bickers & Son · leaf 182
tige of the defenders of the cross. He devoted four years tothis good work, and only consented to return to France on hearing of the deathof his beloved mother. He re-entered Paris, after an absence of six years (1254),with a wounded and broken spirit, because, says the English chronicler,Matthew… … Fig. 109.—The Messengers of the Sultan, having at their head a little old man walking withcrutches, come to discuss terms of ransom -with the Christian prisoners.—Prom a miniature inthe Credo de Joinville, Manuscript of the end of the Thirteenth Century, formerly in theNational Library of Paris,…
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