life in the Middle Ages : the calendar pictures in the Duc de Berry's Tr?s riches heures
Beckett, Wendy
1997
A detailed account in text and illustrations of the lives of peasants and nobles through the changing seasons as found in the calendar pictures from the book of hours owned by Duc de Berry, a fourteenth-century French nobleman.
Presents an annotated reproduction of the "Visconti Hours," an illuminated book of hours, or prayer book, commissioned by Giangaleazzo Visconti, despot of Milan, in the late fourteenth century.
