Искусства и ремесла Средневековья

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colour, surroпnding the glass of the ring with it in tЬе manner of а thread . . . уон сан also place upon the ring glass of another kind, as а gem, and warm it in the fire that it may adhere." One сап almost see tЬese riпgs from this accuгate description of their шanufacture. The old Coronation Ring, " the wedding ring of Eng­ land," was а gold ring with а single fine balas гuЬу; the pious tradition had it that this ring was given to Edwaгd the Confessor Ьу а beggar, who was really St. John the Evangelist in masquerade! The palace ,vhere this unique event occurred was theгeupon named Have-ring-at-Bower. The Stuart kings all wore this ring and until it came to George IV., with other Stuaгt bequests, it never left the royal Stuart line. Edward I. owned а sapphire ring made Ьу St. Dunstaп. Dunstan was an industrioнs агt spirit, being repoгted Ьу \Villiaш of Malmsbury as "taking great delight in music, painting, and eпgraving." In the "Ancren Riwle," а book of directions for the cloistered lifе of ,vomen, nuns are forЫdden to ,vcar '' пе ring ne broocl1e,'' and to deny themselves other personal adornments. ArchЫshops seem to have possessed numerous rings iн ancient times. In the 1·omance of " Sir Degrevant " а couplet alludes to: " ArchЬishops with rings More than fifteen." Episcopal rings were origiпally шаdе of sapphires, said to Ье typical of the cold austerity of the life of the wear�r. Later, lюwever, the carbuncle became а