Images Medievales

Duration: 18 min.

Year Published: 1952

Creator: AF

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Recreates European life in the period of the 14th and 15th century. Includes the peasant's life, the princely court, the hunt, the tournament, war, the arts of peace, courtly love, legend, and folk tale, baptism and burial, the danse macabre, and the last judgment. Musical accompaniment arranged from late medieval themes and folk songs., Presents medieval life as pictured in 14th and 15th century manuscript illuminations. Includes sequences on Adam an Eve, medieval peasant life, court life, war, religious life, and the Last Judgment.

Complete Record: , Colorful illuminated manuscripts of the 14th and 15th centuries in the Bibliotheque Nationale present an intimate view of medieval life in all its vivid pageantry, courtly splendor, and violence. The film evokes the Creation, the work of the French peasants, the life of the nobility, the tournaments and medieval warfare. Daily occupations and pastimes, including the public baths, are also revealed. , Presents medieval life as pictured in 14th and 15th century manuscript illuminations. Includes sequences on Adam an Eve, medieval peasant life, court life, war, religious life, and the Last Judgment., , NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.