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 396
nasteries were generally schools in which the monksgave gratuitous education, vast workshops in which they followed andtaught every branch of trade—carving in wood, ivory, bronze, silver, THE RELIGIOUS ORDERS. and gold ; painting on vellum, glass, wood, and metal; weaving tapestry,embroidering… … Fig. 241.—The Abbey of St. Riquier, near Abbeville, founded in 799 by St. Angilbert, who gaveit its triangular shape in honour of the Trinity.—From a Drawing in a very old Manuscriptengraved in the Dissertation of Paul Petau, De Nithardo (4to, 1612). the making of arms and instruments of music,…
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