800				circa 800	Book of Kells created (CD ROM available).
850
900
950
1000
1050
				1095-1099	First Crusade - In response to Urban II 1095 call to all Christians to free the Holy Land from the "Infidel"
1100
				1119-1146	St. Albans psalter created.
				1145-1149	Second Crusade - Crusade led by Louis VII of France - he was accompanied by his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine
1150
				1187-1192	Third Crusade - The Germans, French and English all took part - most notably Richard I (the Lionheart) - resulted in a Treaty
				1198-1204	Fourth Crusade - This Crusade started out as one against the "Infidel", but was sidetracked in Byzantium with the sacking of Constantinople
1200
				1217-1221	Fifth Crusade - Crusade against the Egyptians at Damietta
				1228-1229	Sixth Crusade - Crusade of Frederick II - resulted in another Treaty
				1248-1254	Seventh Crusade - First Crusade of Louis IX - included his captivity at the hands of the "Infidel"
1250				circa 1244-1254	King Louis IX of France (Saint Louis) commisions the Maciejowski Bible also known as The Morgan Bible of Louis IX
				1251-1282	Alphonso X's Book of Games commissioned
				1270	Eighth Crusade - Second Crusade of Louis IX - he died outside Tunis in August of that year. Prince Edward of England (later Edward I) also travelled to the Holy Land that year and stayed until 1272, arranging a truce with the Baibars.
1300				1305-1340	Miniatures of the Codex Manesse compiled at the request of the Manesse family of Zurich
				1338-1344	The Romance of Alexander in French verse, with miniatures illustrating legends of Alexander the Great and with marginal scenes of everyday life(MS. Bodl. 264), by the Flemish illuminator Jehan de Grise and his workshop.
				1340-1416	Jean de France, duc de Berry 1340-1416
				1340s	Luttrell Psalter written
				1347-1352	Bubonic Plague, "The Black Death", strikes Europe, "...soon death was everywhere. Fathers abandoned their sick sons. Lawyers refused to come and make out wills for the dying. Friars and nuns were left to care for the sick, and monasteries and convents were soon deserted, as they were stricken, too. Bodies were left in empty houses, and there was no one to give them a Christian burial." -- Unknown
1350
				1352
				1372	Duc Berry commissions the Petites Heures(BNF, LAT 18014)
				1373-1393	Guillaume Tirel, also called Tailleven, writes Le Viandier de Taillevent. Several edition exist. The first edition may have been completed as early as 1380.
				1393	The Goodman of Paris (Le Menagier de Paris) written. "See that you be honestly clad, without new devices and too much frippery, or too little. And before you leave your chamber or house, see you first that the collar of your shift, and your blanchet, your robe or your surcoat, straggle not forth one upon the other, as befalleth with certain drunken, foolish, or ignorant women, who have no regard for their honour, nor for the honesty of their estate or of their husbands, and go with roving eyes and head horribly reared up like unto a lion, their hair straying out of their wimples and the collars of their shifts and robes one upon the other, and walk mannishly and bear themselves uncouthly before folk without shame." First section, first article
1400
				14th-15th century	Grandes Chroniques de France (BNF Richelieu Manuscrits Français 73)
				1402	Christine de Pizan writes The Treasure of the City of Ladies "She herself rises and puts on a houppelande and busies herself at her window..." Part 2, Section 10.
				1410	"The Hunting Book" (Ms. francais 616) (probably written in the 1380s) by Gaston Phoebus(1331-1391) illustrated
				1412-1431	Jeanne d'Arc 1412-1431
				1413-1416	Limbourg brothers work on the Tres Riches Heures de Duc Berry
				1419-1427	Rohan Hours Illustrated
				1430-1440	Flemish artists illustrate French translation of Boccaccio's Decameron
1450
				1454-1455	Gutenburg Bible printed. First book printed in the west.
				1457	Duke Rene of Anjou writes Le Livre du Cueur d'Amours Espris
1500
1550
				1568	Hans Sachs writes Jost Amman, The Book of Trades (Das Ständbuch) a book of 114 woodcuts to verses
1600

- Turning the Pages British Library online exhibit. Requires Shockwave.
- BIBLE IMAGES: COLORFUL OLD ILLUSTRATED BIBLE MANUSCRIPTS AND BIBLE MINIATURES ON THE WEB
- The Bibliothèque Nationale de France presents : The Age of King Charles V (1338-1380)
- Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts
- http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/medieval/browse.htm
- http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/digital_image_collections/
- http://image.ox.ac.uk/
- http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/gallery/CambridgeIlluminations/
- http://www.kb.nl/kb/manuscripts/browser/index.html
- http://www.mbs-brasses.co.uk/pic_lib/picture_library.htm
- http://www.nga.gov/collection/index.shtm
- http://www.moyenageenlumiere.com/themes/index.cfm?sw=EN
- www.imagesonline.bl.uk/britishlibrary
- http://www.bnf.fr/site_bnf_eng/expos/index.htm
- http://gallica.bnf.fr/
- http://www.bnf.fr/enluminures/manuscrits/amanuscrit.htm
- http://expositions.bnf.fr/phebus/index.htm
- http://www.keesn.nl/mac/mac_en.htm
- http://corsair.morganlibrary.org/ICAIntro/ICAintroshortdesc.htm
- http://www.abcgallery.com/
- http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_Of_Art/department.asp?dep=17
- http://www.wga.hu/index1.html
- http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/themes/euromanuscripts.html
- http://www.artrenewal.org

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