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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amongst the crowd, who received it with loud and joyous cries oflargesse ! and noel! The combat being over, and the victor being declared according to thereports of the heralds and pursuivants, the prize was given away withall proper solemnity by the elder knights and sometimes by the ladies(Fig. 134). The latter conducted the conqueror with great pomp andtriumph to the splendid banquet which followed the tournament. Theplace of honour occupied by the successful knight, the resplendent clothesin which he was dressed, the kiss that he had the privilege of givingto the most beautiful ladies, the poems and the songs in which hisprowess was celebrated, were the last items in this knightly pageant, which 168 CHIVALRY. was generally accompanied by bloodshed, and frequently by the deathof some of its actors. As we have already stated, the usages of thetournament often varied; nothing, for example, could be more unlike thewarlike sports of Germany in the thirteenth century, as related in the
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Fig. 134.—The Prize of the Tournament.—From a Looking-glass Lid in Carved Ivory.End of the Thirteenth Century. Niebelungen, nothing could be more unlike those sanguinary and ferociousstruggles, than the Provencal and Sicilian tournaments of the fifteenthcentury, described in such glowing language by good King Rene in themagnificent manuscript which he spent his leisure in illuminating withminiatures. This poet-king, refined in manners, generous in disposition, andculivated in his tastes, attempted, under the influence of the romantic and

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