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Surprise of the Month > 2005

Surprise-Archive 2005

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January to December 2005

 

Maître François: Idleness

January 2005
John Gower, Confessio Amantis
Book IV: On the Seven Deadly Sins
(All about Idleness ...)

Maître François: Idleness

Brueghel: Carnival

February 2005
Pieter Brueghel the Younger
The Fight Between Carnival and Lent
(On the verge of Ash Wednesday)

Brueghel: Lent

Leonardo da Vinci

March 2005
William Langland (1330-1386)
Piers Plowman, Passus 16 (ll. 121-166)
(Maundy Thursday and the Last Supper)

Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milano

The Canon's Yeoman

April 2005
Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales
“The Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale”
(All about fools in the Middle Ages)

Chaucer

The Virgin Mary

May 2005
The York Cycle
Play 42: The Ascension
(Ascension Day in a medieval play)

The Ascension

Spring: sanguine (hot and moist)

June 2005
Byrhtferth of Ramsay, Enchiridion
Part II, 1: The twelve months”
(On seasons, elements, qualities and humours)

Summer: choleric (hot and dry)

Cancer - June 22 to July 22

July 2005
Geoffrey Chaucer
Treatise On The Astrolabe
21. The signs of the Zodiac
(About the Signs of the Zodiac and the Zodiac Man)

Lion - July 23 to August 23

The Miller

August 2005
Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales
The Miller's Tale”
(About the life of medieval students)

Chaucer

Lady Philosophy

September 2005
John Gower, Confessio Amantis
Book VII: Genius talks about Science
(All about the Seven Liberal Arts)

Sokrates and Plato

Guillaume Dufay

October 2005
John Dunstable
O Rosa Bella
(A medieval hit, the composer and his colleagues)

Gilles Binchois

Medieval stock exchange

November 2005
George Cely
Papers 1474
(A 15th century wool merchant and his music lessons)

Medieval merchant's office

Nativity - Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry

December 2005
Christmas Carols
Jolly Jankin
(A Carol about what can happen on Christmas Day)

Christmas Mass - Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry

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