Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Clare. From Tewkesbury Abbey Church. Date about 1340.
Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Gloucester
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Royal Sappers and Miners. Working Dress 1854.
Royal Sappers and Miners. Working Dress 1854.
Royal Sappers and Miners. Working Dress 1854.
Spanish warriors, jongleurs, minstrels in the 11th century.
Spanish warriors in armour, 11th century.
Spanish warriors from a MS. of the end of the eleventh century
Ornamented initial letter E
EVERY step which we trace back in the history of the nations of Europe brings us nearer to a uniformity of costume. Fashions in dress did not begin to go through that quick vicissitude of change which characterizes modern times, till towards the thirteenth century. We can trace little variation in the dress of the Anglo-Saxons during the whole period of their history, and not much between that of the Anglo-Saxons and the Franks.
As people became more distinctly separated from each other by national jealousies, and long and obstinate wars, the new fashions adopted in one country were more slowly communicated to another, and thus the similarity of costume becomes separated by distance of date; while some countries became so entirely estranged from each other during a long period, that the resemblance of costume and the simultaneous variation was altogether lost.
Illustrations of Prudentius. Anglo-Saxon civil and military costume.
Anglo-Saxon civil and military costume 9th century.
ILLUSTRATIONS OF PRUDENTIUS.
Aurelius Prudentius Clemens, (* 348; – after 405) was a late antique Christian poet.
The Black Prince. Edward of Woodstock, Prince of Wales.
The Black Prince. Edward of Woodstock, Prince of Wales.
The Black Prince.
Member of the French-born ruling dynasty Anjou-Plantagenêt which stood from 1154 to 1399 in direct line and until 1485 in the side lines Lancaster and York the kings of England.
William Longespée, 1st Earl of Salisbury.
Effigy of William Longespée, 1st Earl of Salisbury, son of Henry II ‘Curtmantle’ d’Anjou, King of England and Ida de Tosny.
William Longespée, 1st Earl of Salisbury (1167-1226, also William I Longespée or Lungespée).
Initial letter from MS. Arundel, No. 91. Known as Psalter and Book of Hours (the ‘Howard Psalter and Hours’), 14th century. Attributed to John of Metz ‘De Lisle Psalter’
MUCH of romantic interest is attached to the name of Longuespee. The first of the name, who is represented in our plate, was the son of King Henry II. by his celebrated mistress, Fair Rosamond.
Knights in combat. England 13th century
Medieval knights in combat. MS. Reg. 20 D, I.
KNIGHTS FIGHTING.
Q- dropcap. Royal Library, Paris 13th century.
QUIETNESS and peace were not among the most prominent characteristics of those ages, in which, unfettered by the sage power of judicious and efficient laws, people were taught to seek justice rather by their own strength, than by the intermediation of others. At that period, the songs which sounded most musical to the ears of the iron-cased barons were the romances that told of hard blows and doughty adventures, and the pictures most beautiful to their eyes were such as those which we here give in ouer plate.
Bull Run. 51st regiment, New York & Pennsylvania.
The 51st regiment, New York & Pennsylvania at Bull Run.
The 51st regiment, New York & Pennsylvania at Bull Run.
American Civil War, Battle of Bull Run in July 1861
Algeria Officer of the 9th regiment of horse hunters.
Algeria Officer of the 9th regiment of horse hunters.
Algeria Officer of the 9th regiment of horse hunters.
(Oran 1881)
Renaissance Helmet of Alfonso Piccololomini di Firenze.
Italy. Helmet sixteenth century with the coat of arms of the bandit Alfonso Piccolomini.
Renaissance Helmet of Alfonso Piccololomini di Firenze.
A Trooper at the Court of Amarapoorah. Burma.
A Trooper