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1300Medicine: examining urine
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1300The medieval Church
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1300Medieval Surgery
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1300Rural life: the lazy ploughman
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1301Friar playing music
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1308Dante's Divine Comedy
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1310Harvesting acorns
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1315Living and dead Princes
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1320Noah in the Holkham Bible
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1325Apothecary shop
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1325City walls
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1330Lord at supper
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1330Peasants work the land
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1335The Last Judgement
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1337Hundred Years War
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1348Demons fall into Hell
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1348Chronicle of the Black Death
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1350Genesis picture book
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1360Medieval encyclopedia
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1375Sir Gawain & the Green Knight
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1381Peasants' Revolt
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1385Scottish freedom
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1390English cookery manuscript
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Intro
This tiny comical image comes from the margin of a Book of Hours - a type of medieval prayer book. It shows a Friar holding a pair of bellows like a violin, and scraping out a tune with a weaving tool. Next to him is a barefooted nun who has pulled up the skirt of her habit and flung her arms in the air to do a rude and inappropriate dance! The image reflects the Church's negative attitudes to non-religious music, and its belief that this kind of behaviour was sinful.
Shelfmark: Stowe 17 f. 38
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