一对Rowel马刺 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	一对Rowel马刺
品名（英）	Pair of Rowel Spurs
入馆年号	1939年，39.159.2, .3
策展部门	武器和盔甲（Arms and Armor）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1375 - 公元 1425
创作地区	原产国: 法国（Country of Origin: France）
分类	马术装备马刺（Equestrian Equipment-Spurs）
尺寸	长 7 英寸 (17.78 厘米); Spread of sides, 2 3/4 英寸 (6.99 厘米); 直径 of rowel, 3 英寸 (7.62 厘米); 重 6 盎司 (170.1 g)
介绍（中）	每个马刺都刻有四次腰带，上面用哥特式字体显示法语单词Esperance（希望），这是希望腰带勋章的象征。希望腰带勋章（La Ceinture d'Esperance）由波旁公爵路易二世于1366年圣诞节创建，以庆祝他在英格兰被囚禁八年后获释。像许多骑士团一样，这不是一个有官方基础、地位、国库等的正式骑士团，而是一个私人圈子，人们分享和展示一个共同的标志。公爵是骑士团的大师，他以这种方式奖励了他选择的几个骑士的忠诚和骑士行为。一位编年史家说，几个月后，他创建了金盾勋章，其成员戴着金盾作为胸针，上面印有艾伦（在当代法语中，寓意能量，向前迈进）。路易二世似乎有意为之，将希望腰带作为个人信物送给他的亲密朋友和亲戚，并将金盾分发给他的附庸和信任关系，将他们绑定在他身上。腰带本身是纽带的象征，象征着其成员的结合，它也让人想起英国吊袜带勋章，它的灵感来自英国吊袜带勋章。然而，与嘉德不同的是，腰带是开放的，也许是指公爵被囚禁的结束。腰带也可以指圣母的腰带，或骑士在骑士被封为骑士期间给予的腰带。腰带的原始颜色似乎是绿色（希望的颜色），但它通常像吊袜带一样被涂成蓝色。与他在 1370 年创立的另一个军事骑士团蓟圣母（Notre-Dame du Chardon）不同，该骑士团很可能在 1410 年路易去世后没有幸存下来，也被称为波旁勋章。然而，他的继任者保留了这个标志作为个人徽章。这些马刺可能是公爵送给希望带的少数成员之一的，正如我们通过库存知道的那样，他将许多带有此座右铭的物品分发给其他领主和王子。
介绍（英）	Each of the spurs is engraved four times with a belt displaying the French word Esperance (Hope) in gothic script, the symbol of the Order of the Belt of Hope. The Order of the Belt of Hope (La Ceinture d'Esperance) was created by the Duke Louis II of Bourbon on Christmas day 1366, to celebrating his release after eight years of captivity in England. Like many of these first orders of chivalry, this was not a formal order with an official foundation, status, treasury, etc., but was rather a private circle of people sharing and displaying a common emblem. The Duke was the Great Master of the order, and was rewarding this way the fidelity and the chivalric behavior of a few knights chosen by him. A chronicler says that some months later he created the Order of the Golden Shield, its members wearing a golden shield as a brooch bearing the word allen (in contemporary French allant, meaning energy, moving forwards). It seems that Louis II purposed his two orders, giving the Belt of Hope as a personal token to his close friends and relatives, and distributing the Golden Shield to his vassals and trustful relationships, binding them to him. The belt itself is a symbol of bond, symbolizing the union of its members, and it recalls also the English Order of the Garter from which it is inspired. Unlike the Garter, however, the belt is open, perhaps a reference to the end of the Duke's captivity. The belt may also refer to the belt of the Virgin, or the belt given to a knight during his knighting. It seems that the original color of the belt was green (the color of hope), but it is often colored blue like the Garter. It is likely that the order did not survive Louis's death in 1410, unlike another military order founded by him in 1370, Our Lady of the Thistle (Notre-Dame du Chardon), also called Order of Bourbon. However, the emblem was kept as a personal badge by his successors. These spurs may have been given by the Duke to one of the few members of the Belt of Hope, as we know through inventories that he distributed many objects bearing this motto to other lords and princes.