1. The Museum of Medieval Life
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Medieval Peasant Life
Medieval Monsters
Medieval Knights
Medieval Women
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The curator of this exhibition – Miss Stevens – is a world-renowned expert in Medieval History. She has worked on countless exhibitions of medieval art and culture across the globe.
She believes that Medieval History has been neglected in British museums, and seeks to show how interesting, forward-thinking and fun medieval people really were.
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3. Museum of Medieval Life
Medieval peasant life
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4. Museum of Medieval Life
Medieval Monsters
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Medieval Knights
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Medieval Women
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I chose this artefact to represent the Medieval Life exhibition because it
shows us how medieval people pictured the world around them, and it
therefore demonstrates a lot about medieval attitudes and beliefs.
The map, created in 1265, still survives in excellent condition today. It
shows the world as medieval cartographers [map-makers] imagined it: at
the centre of the earth is Jerusalem, Europe is depicted in the bottom left
and Africa takes up a large coastline.
The map shows how medieval people imagined monsters to look: it features
dog-headed men, cannibals and serpent-eaters. Monsters were an important
part of medieval culture, and many of the monsters conceived in medieval
times still feature in books, films and TV programmes today.
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8. Four Aspects of Medieval Life
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Four Aspects of Medieval Life
This image, painted around 1300, includes four aspects of medieval life.
There is a majestic-looking queen (which illustrates royal power during
the medieval period), a brave and strong warrior (which illustrates the
medieval knight) and two farmers. One of the farmers is working hard,
sowing the seeds for the next harvest. The other farmer is lazy, watching
his animals do all of the work.
From this image, we can learn how central farming was to the life of a
medieval peasant. We can infer that medieval people took laziness very
seriously, and that the artist wanted to encourage peasants to work hard
like the farmer on the bottom-right (not like the farmer on the top-right).
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9. Medieval ‘Book of Hours’
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Medieval ‘Book of Hours’
This image is from a medieval ‘Book of Hours’ (a prayer book). The image represents ‘February’, and shows peasants at work during the Winter.
From the image, we can learn that medieval people had a lot of jobs to complete during the Winter months, including wood-cutting and taking cattle to the market.
We can also infer that medieval peasants lived quite sociable lives, meeting peasants from other villages at the market. The Book of Hours is therefore useful for challenging the misconception that medieval peasants lived isolated lives.
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10. Medieval Celebrations
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Medieval Celebrations
Medieval peasants did not spend all of their time farming or working on
the land – they had fun, too.
Medieval people celebrated lots of Christian festivals, including Candlemas
(which took place 40 days after Christmas), Easter, Pentecost (which took
place seven weeks after Easter), May Day and Michaelmas. They celebrated
with food, drink and dancing.
This image shows a medieval village preparing for a feast.
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