. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. Fig. 18.—Thomas of Savoy, Count of Flanders, and Joan his Wife, grant to the Town of Cambraithe Charter of Peace made between the Counts of Hainaut and the Chapter of Cambrai in1240.—Miniature from the Chroniques de Hainaut, Manuscript of the Fifteenth Century(Burgundian Library, Brussels). they were to perform had been equally shared amongst all the freedmen of themonarchy without any distinction as to nationality ; the Franks would havefeared, had they acted differently, that they were reserving for the so
. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. Fig. 18.—Thomas of Savoy, Count of Flanders, and Joan his Wife, grant to the Town of Cambraithe Charter of Peace made between the Counts of Hainaut and the Chapter of Cambrai in1240.—Miniature from the Chroniques de Hainaut, Manuscript of the Fifteenth Century(Burgundian Library, Brussels). they were to perform had been equally shared amongst all the freedmen of themonarchy without any distinction as to nationality ; the Franks would havefeared, had they acted differently, that they were reserving for the sovereignthe possibility of using the oppressed nations as a weapon to overcome theconquerors themselves, and that in this way they might be leaving a loopholethrough which the monarchy might degenerate into
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