Medicine: examining urine
The medieval Church
Medieval Surgery
Rural life: the lazy ploughman
Friar playing music
Dante's Divine Comedy
Harvesting acorns
Living and dead Princes
Golden Haggadah
Noah in the Holkham Bible
Apothecary shop
City walls
Lord at supper
Peasants work the land
The Last Judgement
Hundred Years War
Demons fall into Hell
Chronicle of the Black Death
Genesis picture book
Medieval encyclopedia
Sir Gawain & the Green Knight
Peasants' Revolt
Scottish freedom
English cookery manuscript
The Hundred Years War between France and England took place from 1337 to 1453. The Chronicles of Jean Froissart are famous for their vivid descriptions of this period. They cover the years 1325 to 1400 and deal mainly with the events of the Hundred Years War. Froissart sought out and interviewed eye-witnesses of the incidents he describes and his Chronicles are full of colourful detail. This manuscript edition of Froissart's Chronicles was produced in the late 1400s. Shown here is a miniature illustrating the English force led by Edward III's son, Thomas, Earl of Buckingham, landing in France in 1380.
Shelfmark: Egerton 1894