BY PAUL LACROIX (Bibliophile Jacob) CURATOR OF THE IMPERIAL LIBRARY OF THE ARSENAL, PARIS Lately we published the “Manners, Customs, and Dress during the Middle Ages,” a necessary sequel to “The Arts of the Middle Ages.” To understand this important period of our history, we must, as was pointed out at the time, go back to the very source of art, and study society itself--the life of our forefathers. The volume of “Manners and Customs” initiated our readers into all the secrets of Civil Life; the present work treats of the Military and Religious Life of the same period.…
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