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An illumination of Joan of Arc, circa 1420, in the Archives Nationales in Paris.

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A knight praying, depicted in a stained-glass window in the castle chapel in Cappenberg, circa 1350.

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Saint Thomas à Becket is murdered in Canterbury Cathedral on 29 December 1170 by loyalist knights, in a 13th Century illumination.

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July from "Les tres riches heures du Duc de Berry", illluminated by the Limburg Brothers, now in the Musée Condé, Chantilly.

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Peasants burning down the tower of Verdun-sur-Garonne in
Languedoc, France, where five hundred Jews are hiding, during the Third Crusade, 1320, in an illlumination, circa 1375/1400.

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