[O hai. It's December Days time, and this year, I'm taking requests, since it's been a while and I have new people on the list and it's 2020, the year where everyone is both closer to and more distant from their friends and family. So if you have a thought you'd like me to talk about on one of these days, let me know and I'll work it into the schedule. That includes things like further asks about anything in a previous December Days tag, if you have any questions on that regard.]
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azurelunatic, and is a fine example of how one word can spawn a thousand more.
( And off we go into the gutters )
Oh, and also, if you go looking at many examples of illumination and art in the books that these concepts are applied to, regarding the monks and the scriptoria and the eras when books are very valuable objects, you're going to see a lot of butts, breasts, and penises. because that's what was being drawn quite a bit of the time. There were a lot of people with knowledge of the time period making Python (Monty) Ltd. films, and that knowledge comes through in the film. A lot. Even if all the nudity in the film is limited to the animated segments. So expect a significant amount of nudity, violence, and sex in the artwork, the illumination, and the marginalia. In case that's a thing you need to be warned for.
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azurelunatic, and is a fine example of how one word can spawn a thousand more.Marginalia?Doodling in the margins! One fo my favorite things to see done in materials that aren't part of the library's collection. Officially-sanctioned marginalia are often illumination, and frankly, if you're a monk in the scriptorium charged with copying books repeatedly, it's probably best to have an outlet for the creative urges that are going to eventually want to come out during all of that copying. (Of course, at that time, books are sacred and valuable objects that need to be chained to their shelves, so there's also a certain amount of making them beautiful and ornate so the value of both text and pictures is apparent to the reader.)
( And off we go into the gutters )
Oh, and also, if you go looking at many examples of illumination and art in the books that these concepts are applied to, regarding the monks and the scriptoria and the eras when books are very valuable objects, you're going to see a lot of butts, breasts, and penises. because that's what was being drawn quite a bit of the time. There were a lot of people with knowledge of the time period making Python (Monty) Ltd. films, and that knowledge comes through in the film. A lot. Even if all the nudity in the film is limited to the animated segments. So expect a significant amount of nudity, violence, and sex in the artwork, the illumination, and the marginalia. In case that's a thing you need to be warned for.
