"A peasant for Druzhina?" Topic

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GurKhan	16 Apr 2015 5:49 a.m. PST
At link the industrious Druzhina reproduces Ian Heath's armed peasants from "Feudal Europe" and indicates a source for one of them (36). I've just come across the British Library's Medieval Manuscripts blog; at link is a scene from the "Nightmares of Henry I". Now, it seems to me that the central peasant of the three, with his pitchfork replaced by his neighbour's scythe, is the source for Heath figure 35.
Druzhina	22 Apr 2015 5:10 a.m. PST
Thanks GurKhan, it could be, he is only missing a belt. The only clue that Ian Heath gives is that they "come from mss. which depict peasants in military rather than agricultural situations". I don't know if the man threshing in Historia Anglorum by Matthew Paris is the source for fig. 36, but it is similar. Druzhina Illustrations of Costume & Soldiers

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