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Through the year

Activity: Sources

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When you study history it is sometimes easy to get the feeling that the past is a very strange place and that the people you study in the past are completely different from people today. In some ways this is true. However, in many ways people in the Middle Ages were very similar to modern people. They had work to do (unless they were very rich) but they also had time for enjoying themselves.

Here are 12 pictures from the calendar pages of a Book of Hours called 'The Golf Book'.

Why do you think it might be called this? Click here to find out.

Answer


Image 1	Image 2	Image 3	Image 4

Image 5	Image 6	Image 7	Image 8

Image 9	Image 10	Image 11	Image 12

Task:

Click on the images above to see the large pictures and decide which pictures are for which season of the year.

	What do people do in spring, summer, autumn and winter?
	There are lots of clues in the main pictures and in the pictures in the margins.
	Think about what people in the Middle Ages had to do to get their food, what they could do in their spare time, what rich people did and what poor people did.

If you were making calendar pages for 2002 or 2003 what would you show?

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