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 198
men abandoned the position of pages in order to be madeesquires, an event that never took place before their fourteenth year, theirchange of social condition was celebrated by a religious ceremony, which theChurch appointed for the purpose of consecrating their knightly vocation,and of hallowing… … Fig. 120.—The Game of Quintain: tilting at a quintain (revolving effigy of a knight).—Fac-simile of a Miniature in the Chroniques de Charlemagne (Fifteenth Century). BurgundianLibrary, Brussels. promising always to wield it in the interests of religion and honour. Ahigher position in the household…
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