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 229
the helmets of the knights with barredvizors and leathern shields, their maces, their swords, and their hourts,intended to protect the croup and the hind legs of their chargers (Fig. 136).Its text, written with great care and in an elegant hand, records the rules CHIVALRY. to be observed, in… … Fig. 136.— Designs of armour for the head, the body, and the arms, helmets and streamers(called in Flanders and Brabant hacheures or hachements), coats-of-arms, and swords fortournaments.—From Miniatures in the Tournaments of King Eene (Fifteenth Century). the mutual exchange of gages, the…
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