Manners, customs, and dress during the Middle Ages and during the Renaissance period (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Bickers and Son · leaf 609
COSTUMES. We have before stated (see chapter on Private Life) that Charlemagne, who always was very simple in his tastes, strenuously set his face against these novel introductions of luxury, which he looked upon as tending to do … Fig. 406 and 407.— Costume of the Prelates from the Eighth to the Tenth Centuries —After Miniatures in the " Missal of St. Gregory," in the National Library of Paris. harm. "Of what use are these cloaks?" he said; "in bed they cannot cover us, on horseback they can neither protect us from the rain…
Middle Ages · Renaissance · Manners and customs · Costume
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