Category: History - Ancient

Ancient Armour and Weapons in Europe From the Iron Period of the Northern Nations to the End of the Thirteenth Century

Hewitt, John, 1807-1878· 8 chapters· 94,207 words

fourth earl of Oxford: 1221-63. Fig. 5. From a knightly figure on folio 27 of Harleian MS. 32,44: circa 1250. Fig. 6. From the Great Seal of Alexander II., king of Scotland: 1214-49: from an impression appended to Cotton Charter, xix. 2. Fig. 7. From Seal of Robert Fitz Walter...

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8. c. 1220; where from the front part a portion passes under the arms,

Occasionally the surcoat has an ornamental edge of fringe; as in the brasses of D'Aubernoun, 1277, and De Bures, 1302 (woodcut, No. 55, and Waller, Pt. ii.). In some cases, as i...

4. PART II.

For the period now to be examined, namely, from about the year 1066 to the close of the twelfth century, our chief evidences are still the illuminations of manuscripts, the writ...

5. PART III.

The authorities which throughout the last division of our inquiry have served us as guides--seals, vellum-paintings, metal-chasings, ivory-carvings, and the writings of chronicl...

2. PART I.

By whatever race Europe may have been originally peopled, this portion of the world seems to have been swept by successive tribes of adventurers from Central Asia. The so-called...

3. xxxvi. Among the figures of the ivory carving forming the cover of

the "Prayer-book of Charles the Bald" are two archers, each holding a leash of barbed arrows; the arrows very clearly represented. This curious sculpture, illustrating the lvii^...

6. Part II. of the _Trachten_. The jazerant coats of the fifteenth

century, of which several real specimens yet remain to us, are of a very similar construction. A third kind of Stud-work seems to differ from the articulated sort described abov...

1. Part i. Plate IV. Fig. 4. From the Seal of Hugo de Vere,

fourth earl of Oxford: 1221-63. Fig. 5. From a knightly figure on folio 27 of Harleian MS. 32,44: circa 1250. Fig. 6. From the Great Seal of Alexander II., king of Scotland: 121...

7. c. 1226, still exhibits a portion of the heraldic decoration of

the surcoat. And it is again found on the statue of De l'Isle at Rampton, circa 1250 (Stothard, Pl. XX.). The pictures of the Painted Chamber offer many examples. (See our woodc...