The Luttrell Village: Country Life in the Early Fourteenth Century

In the 14th century Sir Geoffrey Luttrell, who owned a village in Lincolnshire called Gerneham, commissioned a psalter, or prayer book, to be made for him.

As well as including prayers, psalms and a calendar of the seasons, the Luttrell Psalter also shows pictures of Sir Geoffrey, his family and tenants as they went about their daily lives. This rare and beautiful book is preserved in a glass case in the British Library in the British Museum.

Using the psalter as her inspiration and guide, Sheila Sancha has studied the present-day village, the surrounding hills and the archaeological evidence and has reconstructed the lives of Sir Geoffrey's villagers.