Identifier: artsinearlyengla03brow (find matches)
Title: The arts in early England
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Brown, G. Baldwin (Gerard Baldwin), 1849-1932 Webster, A. Blyth (Adam Blyth), 1882-1956 Sexton, Eric H. L. (Eric Hyde Lord), 1902-1980
Subjects: Art Architecture Architecture, Medieval Church architecture Crosses Decoration and ornament, Celtic Inscriptions, Runic
Publisher: London, J. Murray
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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3 is a figure of Charles the Bald, grand-son of the great Charles, and No. 1 is an officer of his court.They come from the sumptuous Bible, Bibl. Nat., Lat. 1,written for Charles the Bald. No. 2 on the same plate is arepresentation, made up with due reference to evidence, of atypical Frankish warrior of the actual migration epoch. Thephotograph is from the statue issued by the Central GermanicMuseum at Mainz. The last represents of course war costumethe other two the vesture of peace, and in them no weapon isshown, though Charles the Great always carried a sword. The elements of this costume can be traced much furtherback. Its chief constituents, hosen, tunic, and mantle, arementioned and represented in the earliest documents but notas all worn together. Tacitus expressly signalizes the cloak, sagum, and speaks of the rich as wearing a close fittingvesture which showed the form of the limbs, by which we mayunderstand the trews or hosen. The women, he says, dressed LXXXII facing p. 374
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LXXXIII facing p. 375 TEUTONIC COSTUME IN SCULPTURE LXXXIII

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