Illuminated Manuscripts
Food and Customs
Marriage and Childbirth
Women and Work
Potpourri
100
Did illuminators write text in manuscripts?
No
100
These women delivered most of the babies in the Middle Ages
Midwives
100
What work did noblewomen do?
They ran their households
100
These women usually ran the hospitals.
Nuns
200
This is what a decorated border in an illuminated manuscript is called
Marginalia
200
These women delivered most of the babies in the Middle Ages
Midwives
200
These were the best educated women in Europe
Nuns
200
Men and women enjoyed playing this popular board game
Chess
300
Why did illuminators burnish gold leaf?
To make it shine
300
People didn't have sugar so they used this to sweeten their food
Honey
300
What were women who took care of noblewomen's babies called?
Nursemaids or cradle rockers
400
Vellum is made from this
Animal skin, specifically calf skin
400
The three types of men women could be alone with
Husbands, brothers and priests
400
This is what women in towns did with their garbage
Threw it out the window
500
Why did illuminators include miniature paintings in their work?
To help explain the text since most people couldn't read
500
Women used fruits, flowers, soil and animal fat to make this.
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