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Kes Tres Riches Heures du Jean, Duc de Berry

Kes Tres Riches Heures du Jean, Duc de Berry
This illustrates March in a book of calendar miniatures produced for the duke of Berry, brother of the king of France. With exquisite detail the artists capture four scenes of agriculture life in the early fifteenth century. A shepherd with a dog guards a flock of sheep. Three peasants prune vines while another works in a different field and an aged farmer guides a wheeled plow and oxen. Symbolically, the vast castle of Lusignan dominates the landscape (Giraudon / Art Resource/

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 Dinesh
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THOSE WHO WORK

The largest and economically most productive group of medieval European society were the peasants. The men and women who worked the land in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries made up the overwhelming majority of the population, probably more than 90 percent. Yet it is difficult to form a coherent picture of them. The records that serve as historical sources were written by and for the aristocratic classes. Since peasants did not perform what were considered “noble” deed, the aristocratic monks and clerics did not waste time or precious writing materials on them. When peasants were mentioned, it was usually with contempt or in terms of the services and obligations they owed.
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