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minus-squarebleistift2@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·4 months agoWhere do these random medieval drawings come from? And who finds them?
minus-squareprettybunnys@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·edit-24 months agoThey’re called marginalia and they came from bored scribes or monks or whoever doodling. People studying texts find them and document them along with them texts. Some of them are pretty hilarious.
minus-squareHootinNHollerin@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-24 months agoI watch a lot of history documentaries and one of the channels is ‘chronicle - medieval history documentaries’ channel on YouTube. I just discovered they used to have someone post memes and have recently restarted that (in the community section)
minus-squareLemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoreddit has r/trippinthroughtime which is all posts like this, one of my favorite subs sometimes. i laugh and laugh
Where do these random medieval drawings come from? And who finds them?
They’re called marginalia and they came from bored scribes or monks or whoever doodling.
People studying texts find them and document them along with them texts. Some of them are pretty hilarious.
I watch a lot of history documentaries and one of the channels is ‘chronicle - medieval history documentaries’ channel on YouTube. I just discovered they used to have someone post memes and have recently restarted that (in the community section)
reddit has r/trippinthroughtime which is all posts like this, one of my favorite subs sometimes. i laugh and laugh