. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. CHIVALRY. 169 religious charm which still pervaded the chivalric sports of this epoch, toperpetuate with pen and pencil, in prose and in verse, the memory of amagnificent festival over which he presided, and which may be consideredan unsurpassed example of the ceremonies of the time. All who take aninterest in the. subject should read this curious manuscript, which describesamong other things the famous struggle between the Duke of Brittanyand the Duke of Bourbon. In this may be found related to its smallest
. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. CHIVALRY. 169 religious charm which still pervaded the chivalric sports of this epoch, toperpetuate with pen and pencil, in prose and in verse, the memory of amagnificent festival over which he presided, and which may be consideredan unsurpassed example of the ceremonies of the time. All who take aninterest in the. subject should read this curious manuscript, which describesamong other things the famous struggle between the Duke of Brittanyand the Duke of Bourbon. In this may be found related to its smallestdetails the whole ceremony of a grand tournament, its forms, its progress,. Fig. 135.—King Henri II. wounded by Montgomery in a Tournament (1S59).—From anEngraving of the Sixteenth Century in the possession of M. Ambr. Firmin-Didot. and its incidents ; in it appear careful comments upon every trifle thatincreased the brilliancy or added to the effect of this courtly festival, as wellas everything that threw a light upon the spirit in which it was carried out,or the usages that regulated every detail, from the armour of the knightsto the smallest incidents of the ceremonial. In its pages illustrationsreproduce with exact truthfulness the helmets of the knights with barredvizors and leathern shields, their maces, their swords, and their hourts,intended to protect the croup and the hind legs of their chargers (Fig. 136).Its text, written with great care and in an elegant hand, records the rules CHIVALRY. to be observed, in accordance with knighthoods truest spirit, at the differentstages of the combat and the tournament, and minutely describes all theirpreli
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