Medieval Rural Life in the Luttrell Psalter

by Janet Backhouse

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802083994
• ISBN13: 9780802083999
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 7.0" x 9.7"