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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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This page from an illuminated manuscript shows a wealthy lord, Geoffrey Luttrell, and his household being served supper. On the left we see cooks preparing food, and servants bringing the dishes to the table. Wealthy landowners had regular access to freshly killed meat and river fish, as well as fresh fruit and vegetables. Cooked dishes were heavily flavoured with spices, which were imported from overseas, and were very valuable.
Interestingly, underneath this illustration are the verses of Psalm 114:4: ‘I met with trouble and sorrow: and I called upon the name of the Lord’. This deliberate connection between ‘the Lord’ (meaning Jesus) with 'Lord Luttrell' suggests that Luttrell saw himself, like Jesus, as a protector, both of his household and his tenants. The page is from the Luttrell Psalter, one of the most famous medieval manuscripts because of its rich illustrations of everyday life in the 1300s.
Shelfmark: Add. 42130 f.208
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