1-150-041 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Initial letter 'C', early 14th century, (1843). After a manuscript illustration to the poem by Gautier de Metz Image du Monde, showing the three classes or castes of society acknowledged by the Middle Ages in England, France and Germany: the knight or soldier, clerk or scholar, the husbandman or labourer. Illustration from Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages from the Seventh to the Seventeenth Centuries, by Henry Shaw, (London, 1843).