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What were medieval people reading that made them draw autistic bunnies?

>> No.14828793

>>14828782
the bibble

>> No.14828800

>>14828782
aesops fables

>> No.14828812

>>14828782
We still draw autistic shit now. There was once a cave painting found on the ceiling of a cave which read, when translated,
>High place

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>>14828782
Better than this.

>> No.14828850

>>14828782
Ye olde zootopia, or I wanteth to make the beast with two backs with the rabbit

>> No.14829401

>>14828782
CLANG

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>>14828782
Monks who were bored, aching, and sore from long hours copying manuscripts word for word often doodled in the margins of the books they were working on. This marginalia provides an epic, humorous look into the lives of those who were caught in the most dreary of 9-to-5 medieval office jobs.

Before the invention of movable type and the printing press, the only way to make copies of books was by hand—and there was no care for proper lighting or ergonomic desks then, either. One of the less desirable things about being a monk was the potential to spend hours and hours every day, painstakingly copying pages and pages of text and manuscript illuminations. From sunrise to sunset, by candlelight, copying the words of others.

Mindlessly boring wouldn’t even begin to describe it, so it’s not surprising that many monks took some liberties with what they were copying.

Countless books and manuscripts from medieval Europe have a little extra something found in the margins and hidden in some of the pictures. And some of them are absolutely epic.

Some of it is, of course, scrawled complaints about the conditions the monks were working in, about the aches and pains that went along with hours and days of copying manuscripts, about how long they were working on the same book. Some lament that the book they’re creating will last longer than they will, others appeal to the saints to bring on the darkness and a momentary pause to the work. Others simply want ink that’s a better quality, and one monk in particular isn’t happy about how hairy his parchment is.

Other marginalia are simply doodles in the margins. There are walking fish, animals playing instruments, and people with arrows stuck in them. And there are some themes that, strangely, keep showing up in manuscript after manuscript.

Monkeys are often found, doing what monkeys do best—pooping. They poop on the text, they poop on other illustrations and on other animals, and, in some, they poop on dinner plates. And (showing that humor really has stayed the same over the centuries) there are also a lot of disembodied body parts, and . . . other body parts growing on trees.

>> No.14829646

>>14829576
wtf i love christianity now