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1300Surgical procedures
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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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1330Harrowing - Luttrell Psalter
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1348Chronicle of the Black Death
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1350Genesis picture book
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1367Langland, Piers Plowman
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1370Medieval encyclopedia
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1370Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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1381Peasants' Revolt
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1390First English cookery manuscript
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Intro
Stories in which terrifying meetings occur between the living and the dead became increasingly popular from the early 1300s. One common theme found in manuscripts, paintings and sculptures, was the story of three living princes who encounter three dead princes, shown as worm-eaten corpses. The dead princes warn the living that they will soon be just as grisly as the dead. The story reminds the reader that life in this world is short. Artists seem to have taken particular care to depict the dead as gruesomely as possible to create a startling contrast between the corpses and the elegant living princes.
Shelfmark: Arundel MS 83 II, f.127.
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