The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1875)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 127
he same time the cervelih-e, eitherflat or spherical, became poiuted at the top, and took the name of bassinet ;but this bassinet was unlike the casque which, in the following centuiy, AI^MS AND ARMOUR. retained that name and was made completely closed. The exact periodof the transition from mailed… … Fig. 56.-Convex Armour of the Fifteenth Century, sald to be that of Jlaximilian. (Muséum of Artillery, Paris.) horseman serving in a campaigu to hâve a helmet, a breastplate, gauntlets,cuishes, and leg-pieces, ail of iron ; but in France and England the wholeof thèse pièces were not adopted imtU…
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