Quotation from: Manners, Custom and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period

Written by: Paul Lacroix


As early as the fourteenth century, serfdom or servitude no longer existed
except in "mortmain," of which we still have to speak.


[Illustration: The Court of Mary of Anjou, Wife of Charles VII.


Her chaplain the learned Robert Blondel presents her with the allegorical
Treatise of the "_Twelve Perils of Hell_." Which he composed for her
(1455). Fac-simile of a miniature from this work. Bibl. de l'Arsenal,
Paris.]

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