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 51
ide, besidesthe narrow and winding streets of bis strongbold and the number ofbis fellow-combatants, many warlike engines and well-made weaponswhich he himself had manufactured. When feudalism, in order tocrush what it then termed the populace, summoned to its banner hordesof adventurers recruited… … Fig. 20.—Fortified Bridge, from Valentre Fig. 21. —Plan of the Fortified City of Carcas- to Cahors (1308). SOnne (Thirteenth Century). Beyond the Meuse, the Moselle, and the Rhine, feudalism flourished.Lofty fortresses, surrounded with a triple moat, everywhere cast theirshadows athwart the land,…
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