104 Fig. 1.1. The Wife of Bath, Huntington Library, MS EL 26 C 9 (c. 1400-1410), fol. 72

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Fig. 1.1. The Wife of Bath, Huntington Library, MS EL 26 C 9 (c. 1400-1410), fol. 72r.

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Fig. 1.3. The Fall of Aristotle, Augustinermuseum, Freiburg-im-Breisgau, detail from the Malterer tapestry, c. 1320-1330.

Fig. 1.4. Grace de Dieu and pilgrim, Le Pèlerinage de la vie humaine (c. 1400), Bodleian Library, MS Douce 300, fol. 32v.

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Fig. 1.5. The Wife of Bath, Canterbury Tales (1483), sig. q6v (c) British Library Board. All rights reserved (IB. 55095)

Fig. 1.6. The Wife of Bath, Canterbury Tales (1483), Oxford, St. John’s College MS 266/ b.2.21, Sig. q6v.

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Fig. 2.1. The Prioress, Huntington Library, MS EL 26 C 9 (c. 1400-1410), fol. 148v.

Fig. 2.2. The Prioress, Canterbury Tales (1483), sig. a5v. (c) British Library Board. All rights reserved (IB. 55095)

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Fig. 2.3. The pilgrims at table, Canterbury Tales (1483), sig. c4r. (c) British Library Board. All rights reserved (IB. 55095)

Fig. 2.4. The pilgrims at table, Canterbury Tales (1492), sig. c2v. (c) British Library Board. All rights reserved (IB. 55484)

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Fig. 2.5. Papelardie (Hypocrisy): a woman in nun’s habit, Roman de la Rose, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 57 (1348), fol. 4r.

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Fig. 3.1. The Cook, Canterbury Tales, Huntington Library, MS EL 26 C 9 (c. 1400-1410), fol. 47r.

Fig. 3.2. The Cook, Canterbury Tales, Cambridge University Library, MS Gg.4.27 (c. 1420-1440), fol. 192v.

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Fig. 3.3. The Cook, Canterbury Tales, Rosenbach Library, MS 1084/2 (c. 1440-50).

Fig. 3.4. Beggars, Speculum historiale, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, MS Français 50 (1463), fol. 296r.

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Fig. 3.5. Reapers (detail from Month of July), Très Riches Heures (c. 1410), Musée Condé, Chantilly, MS 65, fol. 7v.

Fig. 3.6. Allegory of the senses, De proprietatibus rerum, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, MS Français 218 (15th century), fol. 373r.

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Fig. 3.7. Fool, Bible historiale, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, MS Français 159 (15th century), fol. 269r.

Fig. 3.8. Fool in jester’s cap and bells, with laddle and bowl, Statutes of England to 1495 (15th century), Bodleian Library, MS Hatton 10, fol. 43r.

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Fig. 3.9. The Cook, Canterbury Tales (1483), Fig. 3.10. The Cook, Canterbury Tales (1483), Oxford British Library, IB. 55095, sig. i5r. St. John’s College, MS 266/ b.2.21, sig. i5r.

Fig. 3.11. The Cook, Canterbury Tales (1483), Oxford, St. John’s College, MS 266/ b.2.21, sig. b3v.

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Fig. 3.12. The Miller, Canterbury Tales, Huntington Library, MS EL 26 C 9 (c. 1400-1410), fol. 34v.

Fig. 3.13. Sow with bagpipe and fool exposing his genitals, Pseudo-Aristotle’s De caelo, De anima, British Library, MS Sloane 748 (1487), fol. 82v.

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Fig. 3.14. The Miller, Canterbury Tales, John Rylands University Library, MS English 63.

Fig. 3.15. The Miller, Canterbury Tales (1483), Fig. 3.16. The Miller, Canterbury Tales (1483)

Oxford, St. John’s College, MS 266/ b.2.21, British Library, IB. 55095, sig. g4v. sig. b7v.

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Fig. 4.1.The pilgrims at table, Canterbury Tales (1483), Oxford, St. John’s College, MS 266/b.2.21, sig. c4r.

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Fig. 4.2. Fool disputing with monk, Psalter, Bodleian Fig 4.3. Stultitia, Cappella degli Scrovegni, Library, MS Rawl. G. 185 (c. 1348-1374), fol. 43v. Padova, 1304-1308.

Fig. 4.4. Fool with green club and yellow tunic, Psalter, Bodleian Library, MS Canon. Liturg. 378 (15th century, beginning), fol. 59v.

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Fig. 4.5. Fool wearing particoloured costume with bells, Psalter, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Lat. 114 (c.1260), fol. 71r.

Fig. 4.6. Fool disputing with God and amorous courtly couple, The Great Bible, British Library, MS Royal 1 E IX (1st quarter of the fifteenth century), fol. 148r.

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Fig. 4.7. The Garden of Love from the Housebook manuscript (c. 1475-1485), Master of the Housebook, Kupferstichkabinett of Waldburg Wolfegg, Germany.

Fig. 4.8. Design for a stained-glass quatrefoil portraying scenes of courtly love, after the Master of the Housebook, c. 1475-1490.

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Fig. 5.1. The Squire, Huntington Library, MS EL 26 C 9 (c. 1400-1410), fol. 115v.

Fig. 5.2. The Squire, Canterbury Tales (1483), sig. n8v. (c) British Library Board. All rights reserved (IB. 55095)

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Fig. 5.3. The Knight, Canterbury Tales (1483), Oxford, St. John’s College, MS 266/ b.2.21, sig. a3v.

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Fig. 5.5. The Great Khan’s banquet hall, Sir John Mandeville’s Travels, British Library, MS Harley 3954 (c. 1430), fol. 46r.

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Fig. 5.6. Kubla Khan’s birthday feast, Li Livres du Graunt Caam, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 264, (c. 1400-1410), fol. 239r.

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Fig. 5.7. Portrait of Richard II on wooden panel (c. 1390), Westminster Abbey.

Fig. 5.8. The Squire (detail from the Ellesmere miniature) and king Richard II (detail from the Westminster Abbey portrait).