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 394
ary (scapulum), which covered the head and the back. THE RELIGIOUS ORDERS. 300 The Western monks also wore a short mantle—a sort of cape, called amaforte, according to Sulpicius Severus. The Greeks and Orientals adoptedthe pallium, which led to their being designated agmina palliata (an army… … Fig. 240.—St. Radegonde, Wife of King Clotaire (Sixth Century), receiving the religious garbfrom the hands of St. Medard, Bishop of Noyon.— Histoire et Cronicque de Clotaire (16mo,Paris, Jean Mesnage, 1513). in the establishment of monasteries, of which he himself founded a largenumber. He was the…
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