Degradation of a knight. The disgraced knight is stripped of his armour, gauntlets, helm and spurs. Trumpeters announce the ceremony. Woodcut attributed to Jost Amman, 1565. Degradation d’un chevalier. Woodcut from Paul Lacroix’s La Vie Militaire et Religieuse au Moyen Age et a l’Epoque de la Renaissance, Military and Religious Life in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Paris, 1873.

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