Now, she’s the author of a book with a tongue-in-cheek guide to living like it’s 999 AD — or thereabouts — called “Weird Medieval Guys: How to Live, Love, Laugh (and Die) in Dark Times.” ...

Titled “Weird Medieval Guys,” a new book examines illustrations of armless frogs, human-sized snails and more Julia Binswanger - Daily Correspondent November 16, 2023 ...

An illustration from a 1410 illuminated French edition of Marco Polo’s “The Book of Marvels of Great Asia and of India the Greater and Lesser ... The Book of Marvels: Imagining the Medieval World.

Another Book of Hours to be exhibited at TEFAF by Dr. Günther, produced in Bourges, France, around A.D. 1500 , features an illustration common to these books, of three young, richly dressed ...

The reason so many knights did battle with snails in the margins of medieval manuscripts remains a mystery (Credit: The British Library) The pages of medieval books are stalked by a ferocious ...

Workshop of Master of the First Prayer Book of Maximilian, “Mary Magdalene with a Book and an Ointment Jar” (Bruges, Belgium, about 1510-20), tempera colors, gold, and ink on parchment; Leaf ...

Monks created an illuminated Bible of astonishing beauty sometime between the 6th and 8th centuries. It’s one of the most cherished masterpieces in Ireland, writes Martha Kearney.

New research is rewriting the history of the world’s most famous early medieval manuscript – a lavishly illustrated 1,200-year-old copy of the Gospels known today as the Book of Kells.. It had ...

One such example in the exhibition is a 15th-century prayer book illustration of Saint George slaying the dragon. Grollemond says, “I chose it because it’s so much how we think of the Middle ...

Scotland's oldest book, a medieval Celtic psalter with vivid illustrations in green, red, purple and gold, will be put on public display on Friday for just the second time in 1,000 years.

Now, she’s the author of a book with a tongue-in-cheek guide to living like it’s 999 AD — or thereabouts — called “Weird Medieval Guys: How to Live, Love, Laugh (and Die) in Dark Times.” ...