Footnotes
Illuminated manuscript page of people cutting and raking hay, with a château and a calendar arch above the field.
Limbourg brothers, June, haymaking, from the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, about 1412–1416. Public domain.

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About 500–1500

Footnotes of Medieval Life explains how ordinary medieval life worked, stage by stage.

The manuscript pages on this page were made between about 1325 and 1416, inside the wider medieval span of about 500 to 1500.

New episodes are published on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Viewers can follow that ordinary life one stage at a time.

Medieval manuscript painting of a watermill with a water wheel and workers.
A watermill, from the Luttrell Psalter. Luttrell Psalter illuminators, about 1325–1335. CC0. Source

Episodes

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How Grain Became Bread | Footnotes of Medieval Life

10:23

The episode presents how grain became bread.

  • Two armored knights jousting with lances in a medieval manuscript margin.
    Two knights jousting, from the Luttrell Psalter. Luttrell Psalter illuminators, about 1325–1335. CC0. Source
  • Illuminated October page with people working a field in front of a castle, under a calendar arch.
    October, from the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry. Limbourg brothers, about 1412–1416. Public domain. Source