Collection items

Account of King John’s reign in John Lydgate’s Ver...

Manuscript, Artwork Created date: 1450-99

King John has frequently been characterised as a bad king, even in the Middle Ages. This poem on the kings of England, t...

John Lydgate, Lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund

Manuscript Created date: c. 1461–75

This miniature from The Lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund details the moment a child is knocked off London Bridge by p...

John Lydgate, The Siege of Thebes

Manuscript Created date: c. 1457–1530

Pilgrims travelled to holy places where saints’ relics were held as they believed that by touching the relics, usually b...