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Re: Finally, a reason to call fundamentalists ‘medieval’

Anne M. Beggs — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:36:59 -0000

Lovely, delightful and right up my alley of animorphing. Altho I come to this charming post late in the game--TY and Thanks to Tatjana Jovannich on LinkedIN for sharing it.

Re: Finally, a reason to call fundamentalists ‘medieval’

Will wood — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 22:30:15 -0000

Maybe the joke is that too much armor is heavy and thus makes the wearer slow in a melee--too slow to actually be a threat, much like a snail? Maybe it is the snail, and not his opponent, that is the butt of the joke... A man who buys his fortitude in the form of protective steel at the expense of actually being able to do anything. It strikes on a lot of humor points--pretension, cowardness, the humiliation of the foppish braggart who trusts more in his over-wrought defenses than his skill. This doesn't explain the look of fear/distraction/surprise on the knight, though. Perhaps those expressions are meant to create a humorous tension that draws emphasis to the impotence of the snail?

Re: Finally, a reason to call fundamentalists ‘medieval’

Edralis — Tue, 28 May 2013 03:42:53 -0000

I suspect the monkeys in the last picture are actually engaged in a game known as quintain (called after the tilting practice device). Compare here: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/...

Re: Finally, a reason to call fundamentalists ‘medieval’

Apryl Ballew — Mon, 13 May 2013 17:42:59 -0000

GM: As the explanatory setting note will tell us soon,*

First asterisk.

Re: Finally, a reason to call fundamentalists ‘medieval’

CC — Tue, 07 May 2013 07:41:10 -0000

Regarding the line "which, by now, I hope you’ve pieced together was called the catholic Church" - you seem to have forgotten about the various Eastern Churches. The East-West Schism happened long before this manuscript was written, and, while the Eastern Churches don't use the word "Transubstantiation", they do certainly generally see the eucharist as a certain person's (Person's?) flesh and blood.

Re: The Medieval Secret To Besieging Castles That THEY Don’t Want You To Know (Wmm… Marginalia #118)

Swooning Fan — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 21:13:19 -0000

I love your blog. Funniest thing on the internet.

Re: Negative Campaigning, Medieval Style

Emily Violet Duff — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 06:10:23 -0000

i was google imaging medieval jokes, the first image came up
safe to say i was rather confused
now i understand.
kind of

Re: About

Laura Spires Freeburn — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 14:31:56 -0000

Hey, is your store gone???

Re: You’re So Vain, You Probably Think This Pig is… um, oops, lost the joke there (Mmm… Marginalia #88)

Marcel — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 12:27:33 -0000

A tempting conclusion, but was (a copy of) the manuscript available to Bosch?

Re: Super Smash Latin Translation Bros.

leonardo boiko — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 12:03:05 -0000

I for one can't think of anything re: Japanese imperatives. The J. imperative is quite rude and its usage very circumscribed. There are some softer pleading forms, but they'd still only translate to "[please] listen [about] the fame of that person" at best.

There's something much more common in the volitional/exhortative mood (for desire or invitation), which is (sorta) morphologically related to the imperative. But that still wouldn't fit the English text (it would be "Let's hear legends" or "I'd like to hear legends").

Re: What it’s Like to be a Medievalist

leonardo boiko — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 11:23:07 -0000

as of 2013, images are broken, and we moderns can only wonder what the anthropomorphic vagina looked like.

Re: What’s So Funny about Knights and Snails? (Mmm… Marginalia #46)

Steve McCarter — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 17:36:29 -0000

I think they were making fun of the French. Escargot... Escarwent.

Re: The Mystery of Ælfgyva (Mmm… [Tapestry] Marginalia #22)

Colinillustrator — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 14:21:18 -0000

I agree, that is not an adze at all. An Adze is like a hatchet, with the blade mounted at 90 degrees, so that you can chop out a trough, and if you missed, it would hit more wood as you are digging a bowl. His axe is a standard medieval wood working broad axe, you can see a replica here: http://www.wisementrading.com/... , and they are for ship building among other things. Your self-castration theory is way off.

Re: A Month Already?

KateGladstone — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 19:33:10 -0000

I recommend filing it military-style: "Butt-Trumpet, Monkeys, for the use of."

Re: Mmm… Marginalia: Medieval Breakdancing?!?

rory brown — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:36:25 -0000

the kb.nl link from the page gives me a
Page not found (404)
and I'm far too stupid to find the images on the site. Little help?

Re: Mmm… Marginalia: Medieval Breakdancing?!?

Got Medieval — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 17:27:47 -0000

That's actually something that broke when I moved from blogspot to a self-hosted Wordpress install. I'll get to fixing it... eventually. For the time being, drop by the kb.de's website and you should find the original image.

Re: Mmm… Marginalia: Medieval Breakdancing?!?

rory brown — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 13:40:19 -0000

Can anyone help me get to larger images from this book? are they still available on the national library of the netherlands? I'm most interested in the fox wheel of fortune from the next post.

Re: Mmm… Marginalia: Wheel of Reynard

rory brown — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 13:36:26 -0000

I'd really like a larger image of the fox wheel. I tried bumbling around on the National Library of the Netherlands to see if i could find it to no avail. can anyone help?

Re: Mmm… Marginalia: Wheel of Reynard

rory brown — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 13:35:30 -0000

Re: The Hardest Working Man in Marginalia (Mmm… Marginalia #4)

Fnord Prefect Fnord — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 16:04:32 -0000

I don't think it's informal and hip, I'm just lousy at typing beacuse I'm clumsy and have arthritic hands. Same excuse for mispselings.

Re: A Nation of Franklins? Gosh, I Hope Not

Fnord Prefect Fnord — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 15:17:04 -0000

and meanhiwle the beach is lined with *invisible* sharp rocks, which will injure someone and cause a lawsuit sooner or later. You forgot that bit.

Re: August Feast Calendar

Fnord Prefect Fnord — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 19:27:47 -0000

St Lawrence is the first person recorded as saying "bite me."

Re: Fun With Detachable Heads (Mmm… Marginalia #36)

Fnord Prefect Fnord — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 17:13:44 -0000

th bishop's head is winking.

Re: Free Bonus Valentines Day Marginalia

Fnord Prefect Fnord — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:29:35 -0000

It's worse than that. She's a zombie.

Re: Needs More Naked (Mmm… Marginalia #103)

Fnord Prefect Fnord — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 12:59:49 -0000

it's a garden gnome.