For nearly four centuries, the University of Aberdeen has housed one of the best-preserved medieval illuminated manuscripts ...

Gauging the impact of the medieval bestiary relies in part on seeing how the illuminations influenced art, media, and texts today: Animals especially associated with the Middle Ages, like unicorns ...

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A medieval illiterate peasant would have heard such a cautionary tale in church, for the devil metaphorically works in much the same way on humans. Thus was the bestiary a work of universal ...

Read: “The Grand Medieval Bestiary” (2018) If the often strange and absurd depictions of animals during this era are your thing, this 587-image compendium of the Medieval animal kingdom ...

A best-selling genre, the medieval bestiary generally acknowledged something the modern world tends to forget: We are a part of the natural world and it is a part of us, in a mysterious ...

For illustrators in medieval Europe, depicting animals like ... the legs of an elephant in this image from the Northumberland Bestiary, created in England around 1250. Elephants were the largest ...