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Cut and paste the following questions into a word document and try to
answer as many as you can as you watch the video.
Comprehension and Recall
‘Fighting and Feasting’
- How is the family’s wealth indicated in pictures of them
feasting?
- How are the various types of meat prepared and cooked?
- Give examples of the different kinds of food which come from Sir
Geoffrey’s estate.
- What different kinds of jobs are done by the servants?
- Name the two types of bow used for firing arrows.
- What was ‘jousting’?
- Whom was Sir Geoffrey preparing to fight?
‘Heaven and Hell’
- How is the Christmas story represented?
- How is the Easter story represented?
- How did the saints Catherine, Apollonia, and Bartholomew die?
- How is the death of Thomas à Becket shown?
- How is the Last Judgement shown?
- What was the road between London and York like?
Examining Sources
- If you were living in medieval times, how do you think you would
have felt looking at the pictures showing heaven and hell?
- In what ways do you think the pictures of Biblical stories are not
historically accurate?
- Why do you think the artists have included so many violent images,
monsters and babewyns?
- What other sources from medieval times would we need to examine in
order to check the reliability of the Luttrell Psalter?
Answered everything? Try some extension activities
Questions taken from the Channel
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