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1. Dinner scene; tavern scene.
2. A dinner scene.
3. Hunters have an outdoor dinner.
4. The Canterbury Tales pilgrims having dinner at The Tabard.
5. Detail from a Last Supper.
6. The month of January; a wealthy man at dinner.


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7. Monks at dinner.
8. 17th century woodcut - dinner scene.
9. A king at his table.
10. "The House of Rest;" a dinner scene, with bread & frumenty being eaten.
11. Detail from St. Peter Healing Petronilla, by Sano di Pietro (1406-1481).
12. Detail of a Last Supper.


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13. Dining at a round table.
14. Serving supper by the fireside. From The Da Costa Hours; Flemish, 1515.
15. Lazarus in Heaven. From Jean Dupré's Horae, 1488-90.
16. A Royal family at dinner.
17. Outdoor dining.
18. A large stew, the communal bath which featured feasting & prostitution.


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19. Workers taking a lunch break; detail from the Maciejowski Bible, 13th century.
20. A fat cook enjoying a drink with company.
21. St. Mary at home.
22. A couple enjoying a stew.
23. Bath and board; Tristan, Paris, 1494-95.
24. St. Louis feeds the poor. La Vie de St. Louis le confesseur de la reine Marguerite, Paris, 13th century.


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25. Grace before the Meal, by Anthonius Claessins, c. 1538-1613.
26. Three woman dining.
27. A fish dinner.
28. A rustic serves 3 gentlemen.
29. Two lovers share a large pasty.
30. A Fool's table.


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31. The Canterbury Tales Pilgrims dining at The Tabard Inn.
32. Three women having a meal.
33. A rustic serving three gentlemen.
34. A dining couple offer a sculptor a drink; detail from Mercury and His Children, from the Hausbuch, Munich.
35. The King entertained, from G. Caorsin, De Casu Regis Zyzymy, Ulm 1496.
36. The Marriage at Cana, from the Spiegel menschlicher Behältnis, Basle 1476.


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37. Enjoying a "stew" - a bath and a meal.
38. Nursemaid feeding a child.
39. The Luttrell family at dinner; from the Luttrell Psalter.
40. A king dining alone, from Walter de Milemete's manuscript of De secretis secretorum, 1326-7.
41. Woodcut of a king and queen at dinner.
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Réception chez un marchand. Al-Harîrî, Al-Maqâmât (Les Séances). Baghdad, 1237.

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