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 ...

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 ...

Some fictional medieval animals, including dragons and ... as is the case in a 13th-century image from the Northumberland ...

This theme is repeated in the medieval bestiary tradition, a moralizing compendium of knowledge about animals both real and mythical. One common story tells of the legendary King Garamantes who ...

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 ...

This theme is repeated in the medieval bestiary tradition, a moralising compendium of knowledge about animals both real and mythical. One common story tells of the legendary King Garamantes who ...