The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London, Bickers and son · leaf 137
the same time the cerveliere, eitherflat or spherical, became pointed at the top, and took the name of bassinet;but this bassinet was unlike the casque which, in the following century, ?4 ARMS AND ARMOUR. retained that name and was made completely closed. The exact periodof the transition from… … Fig. 56.—Convex Armour of the Fifteenth Century, said to be that of Maximilian. (Museum of Artillery, Paris.) horseman serving in a campaign to have a helmet, a breastplate, gauntlets,cuishes, and leg-pieces, all of iron; but in France and England the wholeof these pieces were not adopted until…
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