. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. Fig. 67.—Ballista.—From a Miniature in Manuscript 17,339, in theNational Library of Paris. NAVAL MATTEES. Old Traditions: Long Vessels and Broad Dromon—The Galeasse-The Coque -Caracks and Galleons-Francis Lb Great Carack-Caravelles-The Importance of a Fleet-Hired Fleets—Poop Guards—Naval Tribunals—Navigation in theopen of Men-of-War—Towers and Ballistic Engines-Artillery—Naval and Magnificent Appointments of Vessels—Sailsand Flags—
. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. Fig. 67.—Ballista.—From a Miniature in Manuscript 17,339, in theNational Library of Paris. NAVAL MATTEES. Old Traditions: Long Vessels and Broad Dromon—The Galeasse-The Coque -Caracks and Galleons-Francis Lb Great Carack-Caravelles-The Importance of a Fleet-Hired Fleets—Poop Guards—Naval Tribunals—Navigation in theopen of Men-of-War—Towers and Ballistic Engines-Artillery—Naval and Magnificent Appointments of Vessels—Sailsand Flags—The Galley of Don Juan of Superstitions-Discipline HIPS from the most remote ages havebeen divided into two classes, namely,long vessels, those propelled by the oar,or by the wind, sometimes by the twocombined, and vessels of greater beam,which trusted to their sails Middle Ages conformed to thesetraditions; they possessed galleyswhich answered to the long vesselsof antiquity, and ships which corre-sponded to the larger galleys of the Middle Ages, like the long vessels of antiquity, maybe divided into several varieties. The large galley (Fig. 68), strong in buildand swift in sailing, had received from the Greeks the significant name ofdromon (runner). In the fifth century Theodoric had a thousand dromonsconstructed for the defence of the Italian coasts and for the transport of corn ;in the ninth, the Emperor Leo the Philosopher, in the military precepts hegave to his son, recommended the construction of dromons with two tiers ofoars, five-and-twenty in each tier on each side. For the flag-ship (if we mayuse the ter
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