The Three Orders of Society, oratores, bellatores, laborares, from Aldobrandino of Siena’s late 13th c. Li Livres dou Santé, British Library MS Sloane 2435, fol. 85r.

Peasant Tournament, early 16th c. drawing by Hans Burgkmaier, Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt am Main

The world turned upside down, a peasant at the altar and a priest plowing, woodcut

illustration from Joseph Gruenbeck, Spiegel der naturlichen, himelischen, und prophetischen sehungen (Leipzig, 1522), fol. 5r., British Library.

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August, the wheat harvest, Queen Mary Psalter, early 14th c., British Library, MS Royal 2 B VII, fol. 78v.

January and February, 15th c., Les Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry, Musée Condé, Chantilly

March and April, 15th c., Les Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry, Musée Condé, Chantilly

The Annunciation to the Shepherds, 15th c., Les Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry,

Musée Condé, Chantilly

A sleeping shepherd, illustration to “De Lupe,” in the Aberdeen Bestiary, c. 1200, Aberdeen MS 24, fols. 16v: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/bestiary/

Captured fugitive serfs with horns, early 14th c. illustration in Codex 6.1, “De fugitivis servis,” Tübingen, Universitätsbibliothek MS Mc 295, fol. 153r.

Christ with a spade, 15th c. alabaster sculpture, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

The execution of György Dózsa, woodcut illustration from Die auffrur so geschehen ist

im Ungelandt mit den Creutzern (Nuremberg, 1514), Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel

Psalm 81, grotesques, Luttrell Psalter, c. 1325-1335, British Library Add. 42130, fol.

150v.

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