A woman setting a post mill alight, c1340, (1947). Creator: Unknown
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A woman setting a post mill alight, c1340, (1947). Creator: Unknown
A woman setting a post mill alight, c1340, (1947). In the Middle Ages, grain could be brought to mills for grinding. Here, in the second in a pair of images, a woman is shown setting the mill alight, presumably as revenge against an unscrupulous miller. Marginal illustration from the Smithfield Decretals (Royal MS 10 E IV, f. 71r). Manuscript in the British Library, London. Published in " British Windmills and Watermills, by C. P. Skilton. [Collins, London, 1947]
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