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 223
in which he was dressed, the kiss that he had the privilege of givingto the most beautiful ladies, the poems and the songs in which hisprowess was celebrated, were the last items in this knightly pageant, which 168 CHIVALRY. was generally accompanied by bloodshed, and frequently by the deathof some… … Fig. 134.—The Prize of the Tournament.—From a Looking-glass Lid in Carved Ivory.End of the Thirteenth Century. Niebelungen, nothing could be more unlike those sanguinary and ferociousstruggles, than the Provencal and Sicilian tournaments of the fifteenthcentury, described in such glowing language…
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