Identifier: gri_33125008050011 (find matches)
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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Fig. 54.—The Reapers of Death, an Allegory of War, from an Engraving of Hans-Sebald Beham(Sixteenth Century).—Collection of M. Amhroise Firmin-Didot. of troops was seen capable of advancing in close column without breakingits formation, and it was not till Louis XIII.s time that the regiment, firstintroduced in the preceding reign, became a recognised permanent militaryunit. Towards the close of the fifteenth century the French native cavalrystill consisted entirely of heavy troopers. The Albanians, the mercenariesof whom the French light cavalry were composed, sold their services, manand horse, as the Swiss sold theirs, man and halbert. Charles VIII. enrolled
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