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 190
CHIVALRY. 37 with their enormous bows and arrows, implored them, in the name ofthe ladies, to take sword in hand, in order to fight in a more civilised … Fig. 115.—King Artus, protected by the Virgin, is fighting a Giant.—Fac-simile of a Woodcut inthe Chroniques de Bretagne, of Alain Bouchard ; 4to, Paris, Galliot du Pre, 1514. manner.- But chivalry soon began to decline, both as an institution and as adoctrine. Froissart characterizes and describes…
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