- Chair of the Ninth or Tenth Century
Chair of the Ninth or Tenth Century, taken from a Miniature of that period (MS. de la Bibl. Imp. de Paris). The chairs or seats of the Romanesque period exhibit an attempt to revive in the interior of the buildings, where they were used, the architectural style of contemporary monuments. They were large and massive, and were raised on clusters of columns expanding at the back in three semicircular rows. - The Curule Chair
The Curule Chair called the “Fauteuil de Dagobert,” in gilt bronze, now in the Musée des Souverains. The chair ascribed to St. Eloi, and known as the Fauteuil de Dagobert, is an antique consular chair, which originally was only a folding one; the Abbé Suger, in the twelfth century, added to it the back and arms. - ... thrust a leaden bodkin into the head of that image
- ‘... called secretly at the chamber dore’
- ‘... cast her into a cauldron’
- ‘... compellyd them for to devour the same writte’
- ‘... constructed a pantomime dragon on the pattern of the real article’
- '... crossed to England’'
- ... caused to sytte down and in large wyse to gape
- ... sware ‘gret othes’ and took himself by the hair
- Robert Berewold in the pillory
- The unfortunate “fowle” was “hurten so sore”’
- sat for its portrait to Matthew Paris
- A young novice of the priory
- A ‘herauld’
- Pilgrims
- ‘The broken bough fell on the head of a man standing down below’
- ‘The tiger and the mirror’
- ‘The young Edward III.’
- ‘When a lion looks at you it becomes a leopard’
- ‘Dymoke of Scrivelsby’
- ‘Hakeney’
- ‘He incontinently fled’
- ‘Henry’s badge’
- ‘St. Piran’
- ‘latten “Agnus Dei”’
- ‘... playing innumerable pranks’
- ‘... showed him his injuries’
- ‘... thrust him out of the church’
- ‘... with drawn swords stood in the doorway’
- ‘A wonderful sight’
- ‘An impromptu entertainment by three minstrels’
- ‘Diabolus ligatus’
- ‘... failed to identify the geese’
- ‘... fully armed with swords and bucklers’
- ‘... got his arms round a branch’
- ‘... gyrd abowte his bodye in iij places with towells and gyrdylls’
- ‘... led through the middle of the city’
- ‘... ducking him in a horse-pond’
- Saxon Horsemen
(Harl. MS. 603.) - Bear-baiting
(From the Luttrell Psalter.) - Arbalest
- Arbalester
- Canon with Aumuse
Amess, Ammis, Aumuses (Latin, almecia, almucium) A canonical vestment lined with fur, that served to cover the head and shoulders, perfectly distinct from the amice. Also a cowl or capuchon worn by the laity of both sexes. - An Ale-stake
The bibulium, that is to say, the ale-house or tavern, displayed its sign for all men to see: the ivy-garland, or wreath of vine-leaves, in honour of Bacchus, wreathed around a hoop at the end of a projecting pole. This bold advertisment of good drink to be had within long outlasted Roman times, and indeed still survives in differing forms, in the signs of existing inns. It became the “ale-stake” of Anglo-Saxon and middle English times. The traveller recognised the ale-stake at a great distance, by reason of its long pole—the “stake” whence those old beer-houses derived their name—projecting from the house-front, with its mass of furze, or garland of flowers, or ivy-wreath, dangling at the end. But the ale-houses that sold good drink little needed such signs, a circumstance that early led to the old proverb, “Good wine needs no bush.” - Mounted Crossbowman
A troop of mounted crossbowmen, of special skill and courage, usually formed the bodyguard of the king, and attended him in battle. Mounted crossbowmen were largely employed on the Continent in the fourteenth, and first half of the fifteenth century, and these men were usually allowed one and sometimes even two horses apiece, besides being supplied, when on the march, with carts to carry their crossbows and quarrels - Crossbowmen
The centre figure may be seen bending his crossbow with a windlass, with his foot in the stirrup of the weapon. From Manuscript, Froissart's ' Chronicles. - A store of crossbow bolts, shafts and heads
The crossbowman is aiming at a target to the left of the picture. From a catalogue of the Arsenal of the Emperor Maximilian I. (6. 1459, d. 1519). - Crossbowman approaching game
Crossbowman approaching game by means of a stalkig horse - How a crossbowman should approach animals
How a crossbowman should approach animals by means of a cart concealed with foliage. - Arbalestina
The narrow cruciform loophole, called by architects ' Arbalestina,' which is usually to be seen in the masonry of a mediaeval fortress, was designed for the special use of crossbowmen in repelling an assault. To enable the crossbow, or longbow, to be aimed to the right or left through a loophole, the aperture was greatly widened out on the inside face of the perforated wall. - Crossbowmen
They represent French soldiers at the defence of Rouen, 1419, shooting from behind the shelter of shields propped up in front of them. - A ship of war, wth crossbowmen
Of this plate Valturius quaintly writes: ' When everything is cleared for navigation before the charge is made upon the enemy, it is well that those who are about to engage the foe should first practise in port, and grow accustomed to turn the tiller in calm water, to get ready the iron grapples and hooked poles, and sharpen the axes and scythes at their ends. The soldiers should learn to stand firm upon the decks and keep their footing, so that what they learn in sham fight they may not shrink from in real action. - Crossbowmen
The centre figure is winding up his windlass crossbow behind the shelter of a shield. From Manuscript, Froissarts ' Chronicles.' The larger shields, which were carried before the knights (by their pages) when on the march, and which were propped up in front of them as a protection from arrows in a battle or a siege, were known as pavises or mantlets. - Crossbowmen
The soldiers carry windlass crossbows. One man is winding up his weapon ; the other is shooting, with his windlass laid on the ground at his feet. - An 11th century knight, after the Bayeux tapestry