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Backhouse, Janet

 
9780802083999: Medieval Rural Life in the Luttrell Psalter
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ISBN 10: 0802083994 ISBN 13: 9780802083999
Editorial: University of Toronto Press, 2000

Sinopsis

The Luttrell Psalter is one of the best-known English manuscripts. Written and illuminated in the early 14th century for Sir Geoffey Luttrell, it is celebrated for its long series of attractive marginal illustrations showing scenes of life in medieval England. The most celebrated sequence of pictures represents the annual cycle of growing crops including plouging, sowing, weeding, harvesting, threshing, and the delivery of the grain. Animal illustrations include domestic boars, geese, pigs, cattle, ferrets, rabbits, birds, cats and mice. Sports, pastimes, entertainers and musicians are all represented, showing the reader that rural life did have a lighter side beyond the routine of work. Janet Backhouse's entertaining study reminds us that although The Luttrell Psalter was created to provide a reflection of the status of the Luttrell family, its preservation has given us a supremely emotive pictorial source for the daily life of rural England.

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Janet Backhouse is an internationally respected manuscript expert and former Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts at The British Library.

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Editorial
University of Toronto Press
Año de publicación
2000
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ISBN 10 
0802083994
ISBN 13 
9780802083999
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Número de páginas
277
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ISBN 10:  0712346635 ISBN 13:  9780712346634
Editorial: The British Library, 2000
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