Légende

Man dying of the plague, 14th-15th century. A priest gives the last rites to a sufferer, as a smiling devil wounds him with a spear. God looks down from above. The Black Death, which arrived in 1348, killed about half of England's population of 5-6 million. Images of death pervade the art of post-plague England. Not only are images of mortality more frequent than before the plague, but they are more explicit in their dipiction of death and decay. This example is from an illustrated collection of English religious texts compled by a Carthusian monk in Yorkshire in the 15th century.

Date

1348

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM25A15_090

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

50,7Mo (3,1Mo) / 29,6cm x 42,9cm / 3501 x 5062 (300dpi)

Mots clés

England people male library man men health religious country religion fear guy weapon weapons English bed room color death dying frightened medieval Christianity pain deity God war location century plague spear gesturing alarm skeleton scared afraid disease priest miniature concept devil scary demon frightening British Library hand gesture manuscript fearful warfare poking blessing hand Gestures Colour frighten weaponry mediaeval Middle Ages 14th century Fourteenth Century last rites 15th century bedchamber benediction Black Death Bubonic Plague deathbed fifteenth century illuminated manuscript bedroom manuscript Unknown bed chamber Heritage Art