Monday, October 3, 2016

Weird things you find in medieval manuscripts.

Take us to your leader!



This image is from 'The Fortress of Faith': Valenciennes - BM - ms. 0244 f. 027. Alphonsus de Spina, La Forteresse de la foi. France, 15th century. It shows two... demons, I guess, one with a flesh hook and the other with an arbuquis... maybe. Another example of "I don't know what the artist was thinking". Perhaps he, or she, was trying to show a visual metaphor of evil attacking the "fortress of faith" (not to be confused with the Hall of Justice) which is represented as a castle in this image. 

Or, perhaps, the artist was trying to convey something more sinister.


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