This work is a vivid and faithful description of the Manners and Customs of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. In writing this work, the author has practically depended on the prevailing art during the periods under study. Art tells us about the life of our ancestors. As such, the contemporary art and the Manners and Customs of the period are two inseparable things. Both entwine one another, and become complete one by the other. The author has taken great pains in reproducing by means of strict facsimiles the engraving and chromo-lithography pertaining to the Middle Ages, and the rarest engravings of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries as well as the most precious miniatures of the manuscripts preserved in principal libraries of Europe. This has not made it easier to understand the subject under study more intimately but has also added to the beauty and value of the book.