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Title:
The duke and the peasant : life in the Middle Ages : the calendar pictures in the Duc de Berry's Très riches heures
JLCTITLE245:
by Wendy Beckett ; [translated from the German].
Personal Author:
Beckett, Wendy.
Uniform Title:
Der Herzog und die Bauern. English
Publication Information:
New York : Prestel, 1997.
Physical Description:
30 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
ISBN:
9783791318134
Series:
Adventures in art
Abstract:
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.
Title Subject:
Très riches heures du duc de Berry -- Illustrations -- Juvenile literature.

Très riches heures du duc de Berry.
Subject Term:
Books of hours -- Illustrations -- Juvenile literature.

Seasons in art -- Juvenile literature.

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval -- France -- Juvenile literature.

Illumination of books and manuscripts, French -- Juvenile literature.

Books of hours -- Pictorial works.

Civilization, Medieval.

Seasons in art.

Illumination of books and manuscripts.

Art appreciation.
Added Author:
Berry, Jean de France, duc de, 1340-1416.
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