Accueil / Albums / The Middle Ages 206
- ‘... gyrd abowte his bodye in iij places with towells and gyrdylls’
- sat for its portrait to Matthew Paris
- ‘The tiger and the mirror’
- ‘... led through the middle of the city’
- ‘... called secretly at the chamber dore’
- ‘... playing innumerable pranks’
- ‘... cast her into a cauldron’
- ‘... compellyd them for to devour the same writte’
- A ‘herauld’
- ‘An impromptu entertainment by three minstrels’
- ‘... got his arms round a branch’
- A young novice of the priory
- ‘He incontinently fled’
- ‘... with drawn swords stood in the doorway’
- ‘A wonderful sight’
- ‘latten “Agnus Dei”’
- ... caused to sytte down and in large wyse to gape
- ‘Henry’s badge’
- ‘St. Piran’
- ‘Diabolus ligatus’
- A Knight Templar
The order of the Knights of the Temple was founded at Jerusalem in 1118 a.d., during the interval between the first and second crusades, and in the reign of Baldwin I. Hugh de Payens, and eight other brave knights, in the presence of the king and his barons, and in the hands of the Patriarch, bound themselves into a fraternity which embraced the fundamental monastic vows of obedience, poverty, and chastity; and, in addition, as the special object of the fraternity, they undertook the task of escorting the companies of pilgrims from the coast up to Jerusalem, and thence on the usual tour to the Holy Places. - Exterior View of St. Robert’s Chapel, Knaresborough
St. Robert’s Chapel, at Knaresborough, Yorkshire, is a very excellent example of a hermitage. It is hewn out of the rock, at the bottom of a cliff, in the corner of a sequestered dell. The exterior, a view of which is given below, presents us with a simply arched doorway at the bottom of the rough cliff, with an arched window on the left, and a little square opening between, which looks like the little square window of a recluse. Internally we find the cell sculptured into the fashion of a little chapel, with a groined ceiling, the groining shafts and ribs well enough designed, but rather rudely executed. - Reclusorium, or Anchorhold, at Rettenden, Essex
In a reclusorium, or anchorhold, there was always a “cell” of a certain construction, to which all things else, parlours or chapels, apartments for servants and guests, yards and gardens, were accidental appendages. - An Inn
In the woodcut the side of the hostelry next to the spectator is supposed to be removed, so as to bring under view both the party of travellers approaching through the corn-fields, and the same travellers tucked into their truckle beds and fast asleep. The sign of the inn will be noticed projecting over the door, with a brush hung from it. Many houses displayed signs in the Middle Ages; the brush was the general sign of a house of public entertainment. On the bench in the common dormitory will be seen the staves and scrips of the travellers, who are pilgrims. - A Town, from Barclay’s Shippe of Fools
The accompanying cut from Barclay’s “Shippe of Fools,” gives a view in the interior of a mediæval town. The lower story of the houses is of stone, the upper stories of timber, projecting. The lower stories have only small, apparently unglazed windows, while the living rooms with their oriels and glazed lattices are in the first floor. - Interior View of St. Robert’s Chapel
St. Robert’s Chapel, at Knaresborough, Yorkshire, is a very excellent example of a hermitage. It is hewn out of the rock, at the bottom of a cliff, in the corner of a sequestered dell.