Post them here
>>361535
Love the guy raising his hand like "what the fuck are you doing, man"
What's up with all the snails
>>361541
No one knows. They quickly became fashionable at one point and then dissapeared from illustrations. Being shelled, maybe they poked fun at armoured knights, they often appear in combat or in jousts.
how common were drugs in the middle ages?
It's sad how this is actually more technically complex than modern art is nowadays.
>>361528
To quote Pliny
>the bonasus is found in Paeonia. It has the mane of a horse but otherwise resembles a bull. It has horns that curve back so they are useless for fighting; when attacked, it runs away, while releasing a trail of dung that can cover three furlongs. Contact with the dung burns pursuers as though they had touched fire
>>361660
>tfw in 500 years historians still won't understand pepe
>>361750
Amazing
Historic painters were fucking insane
Fucking bored monks, man.
>>361750
>tfw in 500 years, all history will be written in the form of baneposting.
>>361537
>joust fuck my shit up
Does anyone have the mice sieging the cat in the castle?
>>361799
It always strikes me as odd how they depicted biblical stories with contemporary medieval clothing. It's like if we never had period movies and just put every ancient character in skinny jeans and vans and bombers.
>>361818
There's a chapter in spengler that talks about that
>>361818
People did that until the Renaissance, I guess.
>>361750
>tfw this thread will be lost in cyber space for the rest of human existence in a couple hours and this statement will never be acknowledged again
>>361526
tx so much for this thread. I actually have a fucking folder dedicated to these.
>>361535
medieval babies were shredded as fuark
>>361526
>>361889
Please post them
>>361803
I keked anon.
Anyone have the european illustration of an elephant? It looked absolutely retarded
>>361897
The medieval conception of childhood is that they were literally just small adults and the art reflects that worldview. They even believed that inside a man's sperm were tiny men themselves.
does feudal japan count?
>>362020
>please, please take our kebabs, there's too many
>>362028
>The scroll was made with the intention to highlight the political and social changes in Japan
Was this the birth of political satire comics?.
>>361855
Even during the Renaissance. This renaissentist work depicts Heraclius fighting Khosrau II.
Donatello's David, while being naked and shit to show how classic and heroic it is, wears a hat that I'm sure as fuck nobody believed that was worn by ancient israelites.
>>362050
not really. I saw a political cartoon in a museum exhibit of Rameses II. was still pretty funny, too, once the context was read off the notecard thing.
>>362052
Yeah, exactly, I actually tried to say that even during the Renaissance people did that, I expressed myself badly, sorry.
>>361784
Looks like he's playing the testes
>>362109
I love how they aren't anthropomorphic.
It's not rabbit people cooking human people, just literally rabbits causally roasting a guy.
Why were monks so lewd, /his/?
They were also into femdom.
>>362118
At least he's not Anthony Burch
>>362120
because they were guys like you or me (well not entirely but in a lot of ways)
>>362003
>>362121
And kekold fetishism.
And bestiality, with dragons.
Fucking degenerates, I tell you.
>>362130
Dumb snailposter
some translated unorthodox comments added by copyist monks into their manuscripts
Monks are goofy af
>>362109
>>362119
For some reasons, there was this trope about rabbits killing humans. I think that's from where Monty Python got that joke about the killer rabbit in the Holy Grail movie.
>>362141
>you will never be a monk copying a old book in your comfy monastery with your cat playing around
>>362152
>>362141
>the parchment is hairy
>the ink is thin
>oh, my hand
>I am very cold
We need a medieval monk edit of pic related
>>362020
> its almost harvesting season.
>>362120
I'm really endearing to know that retarded humour was appreciated thorough all history
>>362111
Jesus vs antichrist
I've been pretty convinced for a while now that Monks were what the people like us typically drifted into if they escaped the peasant life. The theological debates and legends/sagas were like their obsessions and fandom lore and nerd arguments.
>>362198
Jesus did shrooms?
>>362207
It was certainly the only way you could be academic as a profession, I imagine being a farmer you wouldn't get obsessed with books or theology in any case because you weren't exposed to them. It's a chicken and egg thing, did academia create the nerds or nerds create the academia?
>>362207
Imagine if there were secular monasteries with internet connections for all the NEETs and basement dwellers.
>>362207
>>362260
>tfw monks were the original shitposters
>>362264
That's what you become when you do nothing all day.
>>362161
of course we do
> ywn be a coenobite copyist in the beginnings of second millennium A.D.
>>362227
Dunno, I however do.
>>361995
okay
>>362376
>>362382
>>362384
That's a Victorian tarot illustration
these are actually really interesting
do we know when exactly these are from? who usually drew them?
>>361528
Is it me or does that guy look like Karl Pilkington?
>>362393
tx man, had no idea
>>362417
Does that symbolize the black death? Is that the first ever Ebola-chan meme?
>>362403
Ain't that life? mess with the goat ya git the arse-fire
>>362417
Truly the dankest meme of all ages.
>>362428
German is my mothers tongue but I can't read that shit.
If you want more: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Codex_Palatinus_Germanicus_438
>>361784
The ass band,jpg
>>362161
still waiting for someone to deliver
>>361579
I love the ones that look they could have been drawn today.
That rabbit is making a cartoon face and has little lines indicating shock
>>362264
Monasteries where all of the nerds were put because they were otherwise useless.
>>362412
>tfw we will never understand dank monastery memes
>>362266
So they're the original neckbeards as well, since they weren't getting laid either.....
>>361526
>>361593
>Ireland.jpg
>>362522
Why? Is the font too whacky? Or has the language changed that much?
>>361568
>Being shelled, maybe they poked fun at armoured knights, they often appear in combat or in jousts.
nerds making fun of jocks
>>361750
>"why did they keep posting frogs, granpa?"
>"no one knows, but they were very sad people secluded from the real world and whose day was mainly composed by videogames and making fun of other people on a primitive interwarp"
>"grapa... what are bidogaimes?"
>>362729
>FIR FREE
>>361660
>ywn inscribe dank memes into the pages of tomes and codices
>>361652
Kek
>>361535
>all those baby abs
>>362028
Just like my animes
>>362729
Is this the first depiction of Sir Wojak's vs. Pepe the Dragon
>>362540
Sad day
>>362140
>"what's on your mind bro"
>"i dunno right now this big-ass knife"
fuggg
>>361818
>It's like if we never had period movies and just put every ancient character in skinny jeans and vans and bombers.
To be fair: the vast majority of movies are incredibly badly researched. They're filled with anachronisms, e.g. when it comes to arms and armour, clothes, hairstyles, etc.
I don't think things have changed that much. The fact that nowadays artists are usually off by roughly 200 - 500 years rather than 1000 years isn't really that much of an improvement given the fact that people could put a lot more effort into these things and knowledge is a lot more accessible than it was in past periods.
>>363711
His hat looks like tentacruel.
>>362167
That fucking Dragon is so God Damn goofy. It reminds me of pokemon as well.
>>361818
>It always strikes me as odd how they depicted biblical stories with contemporary medieval clothing.
When you see how many King Arthur movies depict the characters wearing XIVth century-type clothing and armor, it's not that surprising
>>362167
>>362382
oh shit, it's voldo
>>363711
>sircostanza.jpg
![marco-polo-carried-in-elephant-car-of-kublai-khan-during-his-visit-AEXM53[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/TcpbHTe.jpg "marco-polo-carried-in-elephant-car-of-kublai-khan-during-his-visit-AEXM53[1].jpg")
>>361535
Knight on the left:
>sorry, I had orders
Baby on top:
>yeah, wotcha gonna do about it, rite?
>>362152
Most of their comments make it seem like it wasn't comfy work at all.
>>361526
>letting lonely bored autistic monks control your artistic mediums
NOT
EVEN
ONCE
>>364198
quit looking at me, swan!
>>362028
>>361818
We sort of do already. Look at how many Shakespeare plays are set in the modern day.
Pic related, it's from the recent National Theatre production of Othello.
>>362417
doot doot
>>364270
It's true, even in film.
>>364240
dat asian pepe top left hand corner
>>364270
That's largely because its hard to get period costumes in most theaters.
There never seems to be much emotion on the faces of the people in medieval illustrations.
Pic related. Even while being set on fire they just seem to be mildly surprised.
>>364270
Tbh I fucking hate when they do this like I know it's because it's cheaper and might make it more understandable but I prefer things being done traditionally because there's usually a point its set there and it looks better generally
Like it's so stupid to go "hurr durr let's set fuckin ruddigore on a 30th century spacecraft im fuckin retarded"
>>364368
depends. If it's done well it can be great
>>362141
>that last one
>>362264
Pompeii graffiti
>>362161
>the parchment is hairy
>ink is thin, quill is heavy
>my hand is hurting already
>mom's spaghetti
>>362161
>>362540
tried my best lads
>>364436
>my hand hurts twice
Come on, lad.
>>364444
monks write a lot
nice quads
>>361574
Shazbot
>>362132
>nailed_it.scrb
>>364505
>having a variety of snail jokes
ABSOLUTE MADMEN
>>364505
I think larvae and moss are more immediate threats to paper than snails, though.
>>362738
m8 they literally used short-hand code to save space and write less.
>
>>364240
So what's this about? Does that troupe just go around blasting their doot doot trumpets whenever they flush a gay couple out of hiding?
>>364505
this makes pretty much no sense whatsoever since snails only come out during very wet and humid days and don't go inside houses or similar dry places.
so that would only make sense if the monks stock the books in the middle of moist woods
>>364436
>not using one of the monks from the manuscripts already posted
>>364563
Don't you?
>>362428
>>362522
>>362738
I think it's just some general illustration of some crippled person dying.
It says something along the lines of
"Come closer with your crutches
[?]
The living did not do good to you
Death will show exceptional mercy to you
A poor [fellow?] in life
Who was a friend to nobody
But death wants to be his friend
He takes the poor man with the [crippled?] leg"
>>364689
feels
>>361535
what is this from? The Manlet genocide?
Why is medieval art so good for reaction images?
>>362738
Not him, but the font is absolute garbage and I can hardly make out the letters, the words are obscure but understandable in their context, it's about a poor man, crippled who will find sooth in death, because "tot" will show him mercy.
>>362040
Kek-a-doo-da-loo
>>364436
>>364765
Fuck
>>364765
fantastic
>>362738
The font is too whacky. I also speak German and can recognize a few words like "myt" (meaning "mit", which means "with"), but the overall meaning is impossible to decipher because the damn letters are fucked up.
>tfw getting stabbed in the skull
>>362167
>>362120
Did those illustrations have anything to do with the text? Did monks actually have to make illustrations? Weren't they at least scholded for drawing dicks everywhere?
>>364834
>ifunny
Because hurrrr, that's why
>>361818
To be fair it happened all over the place, like this Japanese Jesus and Virgin Mary.
>>364882
I have a feeling this illustration started out good but then the scribe kept fucking up and constantly tried to cover it up
>>361537
>There's more to life
>>364240
>>362382
>Gotta go fast
>>361652
Alcohol use was rampant. Cannabis was known of, and Scythians at least used it widely in earlier centuries. Somewhat doubtful that it was common, as obviously illiterate peasants could not have ordered it, and literate monks and such were probably not that likely to try it. As Asian trade increased in the Renaissance, it was certainly imported, as Shakespeare for example is known to have used it. Other entheogens were a common part of shamanic tradition, so I guess it would depend how Christian you were and feared 'the devil'. But magic mushrooms were definitely used by more pagan- or animist-leaning people.
>>361818
They did this partly to make obscure ancient/distant stories more real. Also, they likely wouldn't have known what *would* be more accurate.
>>364368
Nah I think it has merit, makes people relate to the characters more and realise that we are not so different from those that lived many years before us.
>>364765
kek, perfect
>>365295
>Nah I think it has merit, makes people relate to the characters more and realise that we are not so different from those that lived many years before us.
It's just like in my chinese comics
>>362738
>>362522
>>362428
>>364689
>>362417
"The Dance of Death" was a frequent and long-lasting Medieval meme. There are hundreds of examples of dancing/piping/drumming/bagpiping skeletons reminding mortals that their time is always near. (SO PRAY HARDER!).
Quite honestly, death was everywhere, life expectancy was low. Medieval Europe was very violent. Murder, banditry, domestic abuse (as we'd call it today) and 'officials' killing with impunity were common, not to mention wars and diseases.
>>363755
nobody cares
>not providing the source of your reproduction.
come on, anons, be at least a little scholarly.
>>366095
Wut
>>362382
>when the DJ plays an absolute banger
>>364882
>James
>Yes, William?
>How do we protect ourselves from French archers?
>Build a wall
>which material, James?
>wooden pickets, Will.
>Ok. and how tall should it be?
>Around 6'6 or so
>Thanks. Also-
>Yeah, just put it all around you. Cram in as many troops as possible.
>Ok. Thanks James.
>>362260
>that face on the right
>>361594
Sasquatch
I wish I could have met the guy that invented foot rests that attach to camel legs to enable bestiality on the go.
>>364765
10/10
>>366126
Im dead
>>366576
Manlets, when will they learn?
>>364765
Top notch lad
>>366985
>I just think it would be inappropriate to draw a demon's penis
>Can I draw it as a nose?
>That works
>>367310
>>366985
Artists back in the day tend to draw demons with faces for genitals.
I do not know why.
>>364336
emoting was invented in 1901 by Guglielmo Marconi
>>361526
Somebody has collected a fair number of images here
http://derpyeahmiddleages.tumblr.com/archive
>>367429
https://twitter.com/DamienKempf/media is also a good source.
Thread theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwKVtRmDObo
What a cluck.
>>362135
HOW CAN MEN COMPETE?
>>362028
Technically, the Sengoku Jidai and Edo periods were smack-dab in the middle of the Age of Pike and Shot.
Ehh... Yeah, sure, we'll let it fly
>This whole fucking thread
>YFW you realize that our ancient ancesters were just as crazy, horny, depraved, and ready for bad humor as we are today
i don't know if i should be depressed, or laughing
To think, aside from the scientific advances, mankind has not changed at all
>>367768
Monasteries were just the medieval 4chan. A bunch of virgins sitting around all day drawing dicks and stupid shit all day who never left the places they lived
Why were European medieval paintings better than all other paintings on earth during that period?
Which countries contributed the most to the scene?
>>367837
>better than all other paintings on earth during that period
Scroll up what are you doing
>>361535
>the baby's expression
>>367822
You know whats worse? THEY helped bring civilization out of the dark ages. They did dheir damnest to keep knowledge afloat. The fact that they of all people would be in these positions just amazes me to no end.
These fuckers are the heroes Europe needed.
I'm scared
>>367439
haha this must be Ham showing Shem and Japtheth Noah sleeping naked when he got drunk after the Flood.
>"Hey guys, check out dad's dick."
>"Wtf Ham!"
>>361818
>>364368
>implying anachronism is bad
>one of the most widely used devices to depict contemporary equivalents
>extensively artistically licensed, becoming a personalized, pictorial language
>but because 'its not accurate durrr' it's bad
Honestly, just stop posting.
>>366415
REMOVE KEBAB
1071 WORST YEAR OF MY LIFE
>>364882
The pube cannons make this one
>>364404
>Goodbye, wondrous femininity!
So whats with all the snails in middle age art?
>>367731
oh, good. for a minute there I thought maybe my fart picture would be considered out of place.
>>367455
>frogs in their throats
HOW OLD IS THIS SAYING?
>>367899
And this is happening again.
While western civilization goes to the dogs, eaten from the inside by a deconstructive ideology that has stripped most people of their culture history, attacked from the outside by this massive humanity of unwashed third-worlders, we sit in our basements -- our own little monasteries -- preserving and cherishing the essence of western thought: memes.
>>368145
This place won't be forgotten even longer after it stops existing.
Truly people looking back will see the smears of shit that we everywhere.
On a slightly tangential note, did you know that Edward Snowden was a weeboo who was confirmed to have posted on /jp/? Yeah, this place and the people who have posted on it will stay in the history books our sins and deeds to the world.
>>368244
*that we put eveywhere
>>361535
>>367883
>>362118
sorry Im late
>>365235
underrated
>>361540
>>362384
just like my animu
>>367899
Can we do the same... with our memes?
>>367432
>eat the boobie
>NO!
>>361612
Oh bother
>>367435
>Y u mad though?
>>364116
well. they never saw a elephant , they knew about the trunk and the tusks, what probably reminded them of boars. so they thought elephants were just really big pigs.
>>361541
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/3tva6h/why_are_there_so_many_medieval_paintings_of/
>>367917
I only don't like it in theatre, and even then I don't care so much about it being anachronism (I like it sometimes) but I care more about doing things traditionally as they were performed. Which I guess just makes me a purist.
>>364368
Shakespeare plays where performed in contemporary dress. It is only in the modern period that we have ever really cared about authenticity.
