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Manuscript Created date: c. 1308–40

Taken from the De Lisle Psalter, this illustration tells the moral story The Three Living and the Three Dead in which th...

Manuscript Created date: 2nd half of the 14th century

As the head of the Catholic Church, the Pope led one of the most powerful institutions of the Middle Ages, making laws t...

Manuscript, Illuminated manuscript Created date: c. 1325–40

This celebrated manuscript was commissioned by a wealthy landowner, Sir Geoffrey Luttrell, in the first half of the 14th...

Manuscript Created date: 2nd quarter of the 14th century

Medieval Christian belief stated that demons were fallen angels who underwent a physical transformation to become the be...

Map Created date: mid-14th century

This mid-14th-century portolan chart is unsigned but may be by Angelino Dulcert. Certainly it is in the style associated...

Manuscript, Illustration Created date: 1300-99

This famous image shows King John, hunting on horseback in the forest. The crowned king sits on a grey horse, while his...

Manuscript Created date: c. 1330

The Last Judgement was believed to be the moment at the end of time when souls would leave Purgatory and be transferred...

Manuscript, Charter Created date: c. 1300 - 1399

During the 13th and 14th centuries, Magna Carta was frequently copied into chronicles and collections of charters and st...

Manuscript, Illuminated manuscript Created date: 2nd quarter of the 14th century

A 14th-century Book of Hours. Books of Hours were popular books of devotion during the late Middle Ages and Renaissanc...

Manuscript Created date: 1314–50

The Historia Roffensis (History of Rochester) is a biographical chronicle in Latin, written at Rochester Cathedral Prior...

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