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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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1320Golden Haggadah
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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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The calendars of medieval prayer books show the way that people measured out time by the movement of the heavens, by religious saints and feast days and also according to the seasons and agricultural cycle. Images in calendars often show labourers pruning vines (March), reaping wheat (July) or knocking acorns from oak trees for pigs (October) that are later slaughtered (November). In other months, we see the wealthy enjoying the fruits of this labour, for example feasting (January) or indulging in leisure activities. In April, gentlemen are sometimes shown hawking, and in May elegantly dressed lovers are shown strolling in a meadow.
Shelfmark: Royal 2 B VII f.81v
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