The Count of Méliacin by Girardin d'Amiens, c. 1270, Illumination on parchment, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Ullumination on parchment
The Count of Méliacin, 1270

Reenactment

... The Dame de Doubtance was old, but her private world was even older: The world of France three hundred years before when chivalry was in flower, and the troubadours sang. Moving in her mediaeval robes, from books to lute to embroidery, she never emerged into the raw humanist light of the sixteenth-century Blois; ...
    from
    Dorothy Dunnett: Queens' Play, Part III: London: The Excitement of Being Hunted, 3, Blois, Distress is not Released
...

More about reenactment? Look up these links:

History Re-enactment Workshop Website
Huchehault's website (English, French and Breton!)
The UK Re-enactors' Portal
A German Site about Viking Re-enactment

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