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Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the RenaissanceJacob, P. L.

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Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance

Name: Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance
Author: Jacob, P. L.

Jacob, P. L.

Europe -- Social life and customs; Manners and customs -- History; Middle Ages; Renaissance

Old Traditions: Long Vessels and Broad Vessels.--The
    Dromon.--The Galéasse.--The Coque.--Caracks and
    Galleons.--Francis I.’s Great Carack.--Caravelles.--The
    Importance of a Fleet.--Hired Fleets.--Poop Guards.--Naval
    Laws.--Seaport Tribunals.--Navigation in the open
    Seas.--The Boussole.--Armament of Men-of-war.--Towers
    and Ballistic Engines.--Artillery.--Naval
    Strategy.--Decorations and Magnificent Appointments
    of Vessels.--Sails and Flags.--The Galley of Don Juan
    of Austria.--Sailors’ Superstitions.--Discipline and
    Punishments.


    THE CRUSADES                                                    104

    Arab Conquest of the Holy Land.--Swarm of Pilgrims in
    the Year 1000.--Turkish Invasion of Judea.--Persecution
    of the Christians.--Pope Silvester II.--Expedition of
    the Pisans and the Genoese.--Peter the Hermit.--Letter
    from Simeon the Patriarch to Pope Urban II.--First
    Crusade.--Expedition of “Gautier sans Avoir.”--Godefroi
    de Bouillon.--The Kingdom of Jerusalem.--Second
    Crusade.--St. Bernard.--Third Crusade: Philip Augustus and
    Richard Cœur-de-Lion.--Fourth Crusade.--Fifth and Sixth
    Crusades.--Louis IX. turns Crusader.--Seventh Crusade.--St.
    Louis taken Prisoner.--Eighth and last Crusade.--Death of
    St. Louis.--Results of the Crusades.


    CHIVALRY (DUELS AND TOURNAMENTS)                                136

    Origin of Chivalry.--Its different
    Characteristics.--Chivalric Gallantry.--Chivalry and
    Nobility.--Its Relations with the Church.--Education
    of the Children of the Nobility.--Squires.--Chivalric
    Exercises.--Pursuivants at Arms.--Courts and Tribunals
    of Love.--Creation of Knights.--Degradation of
    Knights.--Judicial Duels.--Trials by Ordeal.--Feudal
    Champions.--Gages of Battle.--The Church forbids
    Duels.--Tournaments invented by the Sire de
    Preuilly in the Tenth Century.--Arms used in a
    Tournament.--Tilt.--Lists.--The part taken by Ladies.--King
    René’s Book.


    MILITARY ORDERS                                                 172

    Pierre Gérard founds the Order of St. John of Jerusalem;
    History of that Order.--The Siege of Rhodes.--History of
    the Order of the Knights Templars.--Order of the Knights
    of Calatrava.--Order of the Teuton Knights.--Order of the
    Knights of the Golden Fleece.--Order of St. Maurice and St.
    Lazarus.--Orders of the Star, of the Cosse de Geneste, of
    the Ship, of St. Michael, and of the Holy Ghost.


    LITURGY AND CEREMONIES                                          203

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