Lifestyles of the Medieval Rich and Famous Course/Class March 25, 2011

Was it all champagne and caviar or jugs of mead and roast peacock at every meal? Come and be entertained by tales of lifestyles of the Medieval rich and famous envied by so many. From courtly love to castles, coronations to cloths of gold, this course will show what life was really like for the well born and the rich. Moving through the centuries, participants will be looking at the lifestyles of the nobility and those simply born wealthy in England and France?what they ate and drank, what they wore and how they spent their leisure time. We begin in the 12th century with the Troubadours and courtly love, look at castles, feasts and festivals, medieval artistic works and finish with what is perhaps the most famous, farcical and funniest attempt to impress a rival: the meeting of Henry VIII of England and Francis I of France on the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520. Details of this event may be subject to change. Please visit http://www.cce.usyd.edu.au/course/LMRF for more information or to register.

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