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A Judicial Duel between Gillion’s Son Gerard and the Emir Lucion
Antwerp, Belgium, 1464
Lieven van Lathem (illuminator)
David Aubert (scribe)
Romance of Gillion de Trazegnies

Some European manuscripts presented violence as justified, as an affirmation of a dominant Christian worldview. Here a Christian knight and a Muslim admiral battle for a beautiful maiden. The Muslim warrior has already been defeated, his leg severed, and his face contorted in agony. On the right, even the knight’s white horse is victorious.