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 210
er, it mustjbe said that the judge, inhis turn, possessed the privilege of challenging a prisoner who refused to bowto his decision. If the principle of this rough combatant justice be once admitted, it mustbe acknowledged that a spirit of wisdom dictated every possible precautionto render its… … Fig. 126.—Duel concerning the Honour of Ladies.—Fac-simile of a Miniature in the Histoirede Gerard de Nevers, a Manuscript of the Fifteenth Century, in the National Library ofParis. against the supposed criminal. All persons less than twenty-one or morethan sixty years of age, priests (Fig. 125),…
Middle Ages · Civilization, Medieval · Civilization, Renaissance · Costume · Military art and science · Christian life
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