IMAGE01 An example of the iconography of Adam and Eve, showing him as gardener and her as a mother (in a bower that represents a house), nursing a child. This is from an illustration of Genesis in the Moutier-Gradval Bible, made at Tours c. 840 A.D. The manuscript is now at the British Library (Add. 10546). Not Available At This Time. Source: Bullough, p. 162.
IMAGE02 A large, wheeled plow drawn by four oxen, guided by one helper. Behind the bearded plowman another helper sows grain. From London, British Library, Julius A.6. Source: Page, p. 78.
IMAGE03 A small, simple plow drawn by two oxen. Workers to the right are hoeing and pruning. From London, British Library, Harley 603. Source: Page, p. 96.
IMAGE04 This is a late medieval illustration of a plowman, taken from the cover of the Everyman-Dutton edition of Piers Plowman, by William Langland. Note the boy (much smaller than the plowman) whose job it is to drive the oxen to pull the plow.
IMAGE05 A shepherd. From Oxford, Bodleian Library, Junius 11. Source: Page, p. 84.
IMAGE06 A smith. From Oxford, Bodleian Library, Junius 11. Source: Page, p. 82.
IMAGE07 A carpenter building a boat. From Oxford, Bodleian Library, Junius 11. Source: Page, p. 85
IMAGE08 Diggers with spades. From Oxford, Bodleian Library, Junius 11. Source: Page, p. 83.
IMAGE09 This series of images shows four workers involved in growing food: (from upper left, clockwise) sowing, harvesting (two panels), and turning the earth. Manuscript: Trinity College, Cambridge, B.11.31. Source: Bennett, 83.
IMAGE10 A pair of shoes, with the one on the left showing the clasp, from the Anglo-Danish settlement at York. Source: Wilson, 1976, p. 274, fig. 6.7.
IMAGE11 Making clothes was a primary function of women in Anglo-Saxon culture. Here are four illustrations of women modeling clothes rather than making them (left, British Library, Stowe 944; center and right, Oxford, Bodleian Library, Junius 11). Source: Page, p. 77.
IMAGE12 This is a drawing of knarr, a large cargo-boat, showing an open cargo-hold in the center. Source: Lund, p. 31.
IMAGE13 These are types of cargo boats used at the same time as the knarr or sailing vessel. Source: Lund, p. 31.
IMAGE14 Hunters with dogs pursuing wolves; from the Bayeux tapestry. Source: Page, p. 165.
IMAGE15 A walrus hunt. Source: Lund, p. 55.
IMAGE 16 A plow drawn by two oxen.
