This essay focuses on two illustrations of the Labours of the
Months', incorporated into a pair of early ninth century
manuscripts containing astronomical and calendrical treatises. They
are extremely significant as the first examples of this popular
medieval topic. Hammer's work has two objectives: the first section
examines the illustrations and their manuscripts from an art and
intellectual history perspective, to place the pictures in the
context of Carolingian cultural life, and also to determine whether
the pictures are anything more then depictions of rural life. The
second section aims to place the pictures in a more conventional
historical context, suggesting why the manuscripts were produced in
that period, who sponsored them, and their programmatic intent.
This paper often goes beyond its primary subject to provide
interesting insights into Carolingian politics.
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