The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1875)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 157
a knight ride iipon a mare was, like the loss of his spurs, one ofthe most degrading punishments that could be inflicted on him, and thence-lorth any one who regarded his own bonour would no more hâve touchedthat disgraced Imight than a shaven idiot (leper). Q 114 CARRIAGES AND SADDLERF. The… … Fig. 77.-A Knight armed and mouuted for AVar. (Muséum of Artillen-, Paris.) thèse mutilations. We liave elsewhere reraarked that if the men wereeased m steel their horses were not less heavily cuirassed (Fig. 77).ihe eutire armour and appointments of a horse were called the harness ; CARRIAGES AXD…
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