A guide to the Mediaeval Room and to the specimens of mediaeval and later times in the gold ornament room : with fourteen plates and a hundred and ninety-four illustrations (1907)
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography, Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945, Read, Charles Hercules, Sir, 1857-1929 · [London] : Printed by order of the Trustees · leaf 86
elopment down to the introduction offire-arms may now be briefly indicated. Norman armour is known to us through the representationsupon the Bayeux tapestry. The body was protected by a long-narrow shirt or hauberk of leather or woven stuff covered bymetal rings, which were either sewn separately… … Fig. 57.—Spurs, thirteenth and fifteenthcenturies. 60 GLOSSARY as to the date at which genuine mail was introduced. It is possiblethat it was already known in the East about the time of theChristian Era, and that the Romans were acquainted with it; itis equally possible that the Normans knew how to…
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography · Art objects · Art, Medieval
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