04/03/09

Luttrell Psalter

Aim: To use pictures from the Luttrell Psalter to find out about peasants’ lives.
Starter: Copy both columns and draw a line to match column 1 with column 2 connecting the information to the source or sources in which it could be found.

Column 1
What peasants ate.
The work peasants did.
What villages were like.

Column 2
Aerial Photograph
Skeleton
Artefacts

The Luttrell Psalter:

• Illustrated in the early 1300s.


• These pictures show what daily life was like in medieval times.


• There are 309 illustrations in all, commissioned by Sir Geoffrey Luttrell to show daily life on his estate.

You will be shown pictures from the Luttrell Psalter.
You have three minutes to look at each one.
In each picture write/describe:
What tools are being used?
What jobs are the peasants doing?

Here are 3 of our 6 slides....