1. Notes: 62 / 3 months ago  from theredshoes
   

   theredshoes:

   GotMedieval:

   “Oh, sure, it’s just a random naked dude cold chilling in the upper margin. Hardly worth comment, really. I’ve featured far worse than that over the years. It’s just I wasn’t really expecting to find him in the margins of a book described by the Yale Press thus:

   “Produced for a nun at the turn of the fourteenth century, […the Rothschild Canticles] served as an aid to mystical devotions in which images played as central a role as the written word. Visionary depictions of Paradise, the Song of Songs, the Virgin Mary, the Trinity, and hundreds of other subjects based on texts ranging from the Bible to the Lives of the Desert Fathers together form a devotional program that transports the reader toward contemplative union with God.”

   //DIES

    

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      The margins of medieval manuscripts were full of random-ass doodles. Further strengthens my conviction that I would have...

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       This actually makes sense to me. 14th c and after, female mysticism was described and portrayed in a very sexual way....

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