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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
Few medieval commercial buildings have survived, but we can get a sense of what they might have looked like from the illuminations in manuscripts. This is an illustration of an apothecary shop (a shop selling medicines) from a 14th century French manuscript.
Who lived in medieval towns? At the top of the structure were merchants, lawyers and property owners, who held responsible positions in the community. Below them were craftsmen and traders, and at the bottom of the pile were unskilled workers. Then, as now, towns included a mixture of residential and commercial properties, though often these were one and the same: craftsmen's workshops were often on the ground floor, with the family residence upstairs. In many towns, medieval commercial activities have left their mark on streets with names like Shoe Lane, Pie Corner and Apothecary Street.
Shelfmark: 1977 ff.49v-50
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