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Title: Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884
Subjects: Middle Ages Civilization, Medieval Civilization, Renaissance Costume Military art and science Christian life
Publisher: London : Bickers & Son
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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e Count of Artois, who has come from Arras to take part in the tournament atBoulogne, presents himself at the Castle of the Count of Boulogne, and is received by theCountess and her daughter.—Fac-simile of a Miniature in the Livre du tres-chevalereuxComte dArtois et de sa Femme, Barrois Manuscript (Fifteenth Century). duties instilled into each youthful aspirant, it must be owned that theeducation received by the former was one calculated to make them in everyway worthy of such homage. To fit ladies for the queenly part they weredestined to play in the world of chivalry, they were taught from their child-hood to practise every virtue, to cherish every noble feeling, and generally 15° CHIVALRY. to emulate the dignity demanded by the social privileges of their rank.They were profuse in their acts of kindness and civility to the knights,whether friends or strangers, who entered the gates of their castles (Figs. 122and 123); on a knights return from tournament or battle, they unbuckled
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Fig. 123.—Knight setting out for the War.— II prist le dur congie de sa bonne et belle femme,en si grans pleurs et gemissemens quelle demoura toute pasmee (He said farewell to hisgood and beautiful wife with such tears and groans that she was ready to swoon ).—Fac-simile of a Miniature in the Livre du tres-chevalereux Comte dArtois et de sa Femme,Barrois Manuscript (Fifteenth Century). his armour with their own hands, they prepared perfumes and spotless linenfor his wear, they clothed him in gala dress, in mantle and scarf that theyhad themselves embroidered, they prepared his bath, and waited on him attable. Destined to become the wives of these same knights who frequented CHIVALRY. 151 their homes, they did their utmost to bring- themselves under their notice bytheir modest demeanour, and to make themselves beloved by the courtesyand the attentions which they lavished upon them. It was theirs to respond,with admiration and tenderness, to the boldness and to the bravery of thek

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