The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London, Bickers and son · leaf 136
ARMS AND ARMOUR. «3 the name of coiffre or cerveliere, and later it became a kind of reversed potconcealing the entire head, and kept in position by its weight only (Fig. 53). Again ; there had for some time been manifested a movement whichgradually caused the knights to be entirely cased in iron.… … Fig. 55.—Plain Armour of the Fifteenth Century, about 1460. (Museum of Artillery, Paris.) Under Philip the Bold, successor of St. Louis, the iron grevieres (greaves),or half leg-pieces, protecting the front of the legs, were adopted. In thereign of Philip the Fair we have the first example of an…
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