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 212
h their hands clasped, each in his CHIVALRY. 159 turn solemnly swearing upon the cross and upon Holy Writ (Fig. 127) thathe alone was in the right, and that his antagonist was false and disloyal; andhe added, moreover, that he carried no charm or talisman about his person.A herald-at-arms then gave… … Fig. 128.— How both parties are out of their tents, armed and ready to do their duty at the signafrom the marshal, who has thrown the glove.—From a Miniature inthe Ceremonies desGages de Bataille, a Manuscript of the Fifteenth Century, in the National Library of Paris. batants, under pain of losing…
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