. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. solemnly swore this on the Holy Writ. In the subsequent ceremony of hommage-lige the vassal, bareheaded, knelt on one knee, and, placing his hands within those of his seignior, swore fealty to him, and undertook to follow him to the wars (Figs. 11 and 12), an obli-gation not entailed by the first act of homage, namely, that of liommage- simple. Thenceforward the seignior ceded to him the land or the feudal domain, by investiture or by seizin, a ceremony often accompanied by the giving of a symbolical sign, s
. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. solemnly swore this on the Holy Writ. In the subsequent ceremony of hommage-lige the vassal, bareheaded, knelt on one knee, and, placing his hands within those of his seignior, swore fealty to him, and undertook to follow him to the wars (Figs. 11 and 12), an obli-gation not entailed by the first act of homage, namely, that of liommage- simple. Thenceforward the seignior ceded to him the land or the feudal domain, by investiture or by seizin, a ceremony often accompanied by the giving of a symbolical sign, such as a clod of earth, a little stick, or a stone, according to the custom of the soil. The investiture of kingdoms was con-ferred with the sword, that of provinces with a standard. The reciprocal obligations of the vassal and his suzerain were numerous,some moral, some material. The vassal was bound to loyally preserve thesecrets confided to him by his suzerain (Fig. 13), to prevent and frustrate anytreacherv on the part of his enemies, to defend him at the risk of his own life,. Fig. 4.—Statue of Charlemagne (formerly inthe Church of Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre, Paris).—Eleventh to Twelfth Century. 6 FEUDALISM.
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