March 24, 2012 04:17 pm PDT
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Rude messages left by monks in the margins of medieval manuscripts
Colin Dickey introduces the current Laphams Quarterly collection of rude and complaining messages left by monks in the margins of medieval manuscripts, a subject covered in detail in Image on the Edge: The Margins of Medieval Art, Michael Camille's 2004 book. Depictions of sexual consort are frequent, among men and women, among various species of [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/Z37nHTw2rz8/rude-messages-left-by-monks-in.html
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