Identifier: gri_33125008050011 (find matches)
Title: Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884
Subjects: Middle Ages Civilization, Medieval Civilization, Renaissance Costume Military art and science Christian life
Publisher: London : Bickers & Son
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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).—From anEngraving of the Sixteenth Century in the possession of M. Ambr. Firmin-Didot. and its incidents ; in it appear careful comments upon every trifle thatincreased the brilliancy or added to the effect of this courtly festival, as wellas everything that threw a light upon the spirit in which it was carried out,or the usages that regulated every detail, from the armour of the knightsto the smallest incidents of the ceremonial. In its pages illustrationsreproduce with exact truthfulness the helmets of the knights with barredvizors and leathern shields, their maces, their swords, and their hourts,intended to protect the croup and the hind legs of their chargers (Fig. 136).Its text, written with great care and in an elegant hand, records the rules CHIVALRY. to be observed, in accordance with knighthoods truest spirit, at the differentstages of the combat and the tournament, and minutely describes all theirpreliminaries and accessories, the giving and the accepting of a challenge,
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Fig. 136.— Designs of armour for the head, the body, and the arms, helmets and streamers(called in Flanders and Brabant hacheures or hachements), coats-of-arms, and swords fortournaments.—From Miniatures in the Tournaments of King Eene (Fifteenth Century). the mutual exchange of gages, the presentation of warrants of nobility bythe kings-at-arms, the distribution of the coats-of-arms or insignia of thetwo parties to the strife, the entry of the nobles, and the bestowal of theprizes upon the conquerors by the queen of the tournament. CHIVALRY. 171 King Renes book is a document all the more valuable to an historian ofthe customs of chivalry, in that it was written at an epoch when they stillexisted in all their splendour ; although signs of their decadence had alreadyshowed themselves. That punctilious sovereign, Philippe le Bel, with his courtof lawyers and usurers, had already dealt chivalry a crushing blow by theregulations he drew up for the better government of single combats a

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