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Detail from Fiemish illustration of soldiers sacking a captured city, madę around 1460. It not only shows their salets, brigandines and minimal leg defences, but also that while some are clean-shaven others wear moustaches and short beards. The assorted booty is being carried off in

baskets, chests, sacks and bundles; it includes jugs, bottles and cooking utensils. Notę the wheelbarrow in the fore-ground, pushed with the aid of a shoulder ropę - see Platę B3. (Chroniques de France, Bibliotheque Nationale, Ms. Fr. 2466, Paris)

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