"Some tied their hair behind; others, the chiefs, for example, to render themselves more terrifying, tied their hair up on the head like a plume (79).". "One notices already, toward the 8th century, breastplates made of leather, others made in the form of scales, and suits of chain-mail (80). This figure is taken from a tomb in the church of the abbey of Bonneval en Beauce." . Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalart's "Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages" (1796).