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New Atheist blogger Bob Seidensticker is scornful of a medieval map because of its monsters, but the real problem is his ignorance of history.
Medieval art is really confusing and quite random.
Weird Medieval Marginalia (Manuscript Art)
Medieval art is really confusing and quite random.
Jinn causing toothaches. Illustration from an 18th-century Ottoman manuscript.
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14 Creepy Medieval Beasts That Look Nothing Like Real Animals
illustration of angus mcbride showing Muslim warriors led by the Umayyad caliphate general Tariq ibn Ziyad during the conquest of the Visigothic Kingdom (comprising modern Spain and Portugal)
A medieval monastery was an enclosed and sometimes remote community of monks led by an abbot who shunned worldly goods to live a simple life of prayer and devotion. Christian monasteries first developed...
We’ve posted many times about the weird marginal illustrations in medieval manuscripts. You might have noticed over time that rabbits are a commonly-recurring theme. Sure, the monks that drew them probably saw rabbits often, but the ones in the fields never murdered anyone.There are a great many strange things that can be seen in medieval illuminated manuscripts: weird human-animal hybrids, distorted monsters and odd scenes. These largely come under the category of ‘Drolleries’ or &lsqu...
14 Creepy Medieval Beasts That Look Nothing Like Real Animals
One of the most arduous tasks before the advent of printing was the painstaking copying of texts by mediaeval scribes, most often monks, and their work has come down to us in many different forms. A mediaval scribe illuminating a capital letter, by John Keay Some manuscripts are comparatively ordinary, concerned with the routine of […]
Miniature of a monk (Bede?) kissing the feet of St Cuthbert, from the preface to Bede's prose Life of St Cuthbert, England (Durham), 4th quarter of the 12th century, Yates Thompson MS 26, f. 1v Last year the British Library was pleased to announce the acquisition of the 7th century...
Strange, Trippy And Perverted Pictures From Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts
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Researchers have discovered a set of children's doodles in the margins of a medieval manuscript. The discovery sheds new light on the knowledge and education of children in the Middle Ages and their similarities to children of today.
14 Creepy Medieval Beasts That Look Nothing Like Real Animals
When the edges take center stage.
Heinrich Lefler (1863-1919) was arguably the finest of the Austrian artists who developed the Jugendstil at the fin de siècle. He was principally a scenic designer and in that capacity created sets…
Kitab Aja'ib al-makhluqat wa Gharaib al-Mawjudat literally "The Wonders of Creation and the Curiosities of Existence", or Marvels of ...
It can hardly have escaped your notice that a rather major feature film opened across the world this week. We all are awash in the sights, sounds, and excitement of the newest Star Wars movie, and as you know, the Medieval Manuscripts department is always eager to join in the...
14 Creepy Medieval Beasts That Look Nothing Like Real Animals
The best pictures of a monastic scriptorium show the monks at work on their elaborate and painstaking artistry. The first picture shows a group of monks in the scriptorium. A monastic scriptorium by Peter Jackson The second picture shows a closer view of a monk at work on his vellum manuscript. A monk writing his […]
For the past few years, medieval book historian Erik Kwakkel has been poring over some of the world’s oldest books and manuscripts at Leiden University, The Netherlands, as part of his ongoing research on pen trials. Pen trials are small sketches, doodles, and practice strokes a medieval scribe would make while testing the ink flow of a pen or quill. They usually involve funny faces, letter strokes, random lines, or geometric shapes and generally appear in the back of the book where a few blank pages could be found. More
How did certain classical and early Christian ideas on nature and the visible and invisible worlds contest medieval cultural and literary norms in the medieval Latin bestiary? How does examining these tensions challenge our own perceptions?
It takes no small amount of inquiry, from no few angles, to truly understand a form of art. This goes even more so for forms of art with which most of us in the 21st century have little direct experience.
Illustration of two monks creating illuminated writing
Il suo nome in codice è ms. Harley 647, e indica che si tratta di un manoscritto (ms.), il numero 647 della collezione Harley, che prende il nome da Robert Harley, politico britannico del ‘600/700.Nel 1704 Harley acquistò più di 600 manoscritti da un antiquario, cominciando così una raccolta che venne ulteriormente ingrossata da suo figlio Edward e che arrivò a comprendere migliaia di volumi, oggi quasi tutti conservati presso la British Library di Londra. Il 647 è un libro […]
This exhibition comprised nearly sixty lavish single leaves, dating from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries.
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14 Creepy Medieval Beasts That Look Nothing Like Real Animals
