Speaking of dodges: mighty interesting that all those medieval scribes
were making "art" centuries before the conception existed. Apparently
they were producing stuff they had neither the ability to identify nor
the cultural competency to produce.
I find it amusing that so many folks think of scribes as producing
prayer books and bibles in the heat of religious passion when it
really was just a job. There's little or no recognition of the
pattern books the maintained by the various workshops so designs
didn't have to be created anew each time, and somehow nobody
discusses the very pornographic marginalia. Why doesn't anyone (well,
with the exception of Lillian Randall in her book) discuss these
beautifully drawn images when talking about the religious fervor of
the scribes?
Sally Jackson
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