How One Man's Desire to Flaunt His Wealth Became a Book of Psalms

The 309 vellum leaves of the Luttrell Psalter are richly illustrated with everyday scenes from an English lord's rural estate. It provides a searing glimpse of the toils of medieval laborers.
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