No flying this week, but for the best as the rest of my body has followed my ears into shamblehood. I will get there soon!!
As for the marginalia, there was a lot more freedom for what was drawn in the margins than there was for what happened in the main texts, especially for secular stories and histories. The Medieval mind was surprisingly into sex and bums and humour, so you see an awful lot of scatalogical jokes and a moderate amount of shagging in the little figures that appear among the foliage and linear elements that frame the main text and images. There are also a lot of visual puns and outright jokes, often with symbolic meanings, most of which are shorthand for sex. People are people, after all ...
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Date: 2008-06-17 02:35 pm (UTC)As for the marginalia, there was a lot more freedom for what was drawn in the margins than there was for what happened in the main texts, especially for secular stories and histories. The Medieval mind was surprisingly into sex and bums and humour, so you see an awful lot of scatalogical jokes and a moderate amount of shagging in the little figures that appear among the foliage and linear elements that frame the main text and images. There are also a lot of visual puns and outright jokes, often with symbolic meanings, most of which are shorthand for sex. People are people, after all ...