Title

A woman setting a post mill alight, c1340, (1947). Creator: Unknown.

Caption

A woman setting a post mill alight, c1340, (1947). In the Middle Ages, grain could be brought to mills for grinding. Here, in the second in a pair of images, a woman is shown setting the mill alight, presumably as revenge against an unscrupulous miller. Marginal illustration from the Smithfield Decretals (Royal MS 10 E IV, f. 71r). manuscript in the British Library, London. Published in "British Windmills and Watermills', by C. P. Skilton. [Collins, London, 1947]

Credit line

Photo12/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19G33_207

Model release

NA

Property release

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License type

Rights managed

Available size

63,2Mb (2,5Mb) / 17,1in x 14,3in / 5142 x 4296 (300dpi)

Keywords

building England agriculture female women woman people farming country law crime burning British English color humour medieval windmill text location century Britain concept peasant peasants 1940s arson arsonist Forties Colour mediaeval Middle Ages farm hand farmhand farm worker 14th century 20th century Fourteenth Century history The Print Collector agricultural worker decade farm labourer post mill Smithfield Decretals manuscript Unknown Charles William Collins William Collins setting fire to social history Britain in Pictures William Collins & Sons Decretals of Pope Gregory IX Charles Skilton C. P. Skilton Skilton C. P. manuscript