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Author Beckett, Wendy.

Title The duke and the peasant : life in the Middle Ages : the calendar pictures in the Duc de Berry's Très riches heures / by Wendy Beckett.

Publication Info. New York : Prestel, 1997.

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Location Call No. Status
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Children's Department  J 940.1 BECKETT    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Children's Department  J940.1 BEC    Check Shelf
Description 30 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Series Adventures in art
Adventures in art.
Summary 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.
Subject Très riches heures du duc de Berry -- Illustrations -- Juvenile literature.
Très riches heures du duc de Berry.
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.
ISBN 3791318136 (acid-free paper)
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