. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. he Eleventh Century, fromthe Bayeux Tapestry. feudal services, such as those of the ban, and of the arriere-ban, thoserendered by the servitors of different ranks, known as bachelors, clients,esquires, bannerets, men-at-arms, barons, &c, names already ancient, butwhose rank and place in battle were only determined on the day when theywere all grouped and posted, each under his special banner or gonfanon, adistinction that implied a separate kind of equipment for each. Thus the vassals were in the power of th
. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. he Eleventh Century, fromthe Bayeux Tapestry. feudal services, such as those of the ban, and of the arriere-ban, thoserendered by the servitors of different ranks, known as bachelors, clients,esquires, bannerets, men-at-arms, barons, &c, names already ancient, butwhose rank and place in battle were only determined on the day when theywere all grouped and posted, each under his special banner or gonfanon, adistinction that implied a separate kind of equipment for each. Thus the vassals were in the power of the seignior, who, having the 43 WAR AND ARMIES. right to dispose of their military services, enjoyed the right of reize—a rightthat gave him the power of assembling and leading to battle a certainnumber of feudal groups. Obey my summons, or I will burn you ! *were the words of the seignior in the ban published by the crier, and, atthe second summons, the sound of the trumpet rang out in the cross roads,in the streets, and in the country places, calling the men to arms. To fail. Fig. 42.—After the Battle of Hastings (14th October, 1066), the relatives of the vanquished cameto carry away their dead. The body of the Saxon King, Harold, is taken to Waltham bythe monks of that monastery. In the background is seen Battle Abbey, founded by DukeWilliam on the site of the battle.—Fac-simile of a Miniature in the Chroniques de Nor-mandie. Manuscript of the Fifteenth Century, in the possession of M. Ambroise Firmin-Didot. to answer the call of the ban was to commit a crime of the worstcharacter. In the great expedition of William, Duke of Normandy, against theAnglo-Saxons (1066), he had no other auxiliaries than his Norman vassalsand subjects. He conquered Harold and took possession of England with anumerous and trained army, furnished with terrible warlike machines andengines (Figs. 41 and 42). The Norman Conquest was, to a certain extent, * Arrivez, ou je vous brulerai! WAR AND ARM
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