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Well, not so much. Thomas McDonald offers a link to this site<\/a>. \u00a0The \u2018article\u2019 shows 20 marginalia from the medieval world which might offend modern\u00a0sensitivities. \u00a0Marginalia being those illustrations we see when we look at illuminated\u00a0manuscripts\u00a0from that period. \u00a0 He warns anyone who might click the link, and I suppose I should as well. \u00a0But not really. \u00a0Mr. McDonald laments\u00a0that\u00a0the only thing our modern researchers seem to care about is sex and this sort of sensationalism. \u00a0But that\u2019s not my beef. \u00a0My problem is that many of the images are simply the\u00a0Medievals\u2019\u00a0 attempts at illustrating the theme of extreme. \u00a0Many of the images are simply images of the\u00a0bestial\u00a0 or of hell, or of other things that the medieval mind reckoned as not being part of the enlightened human\u00a0condition. \u00a0Unlike modern thinking, that places humans as the lowest form of animal,\u00a0Medievals\u00a0saw humanity as the top of the chain, the closest to the divine, above the animal and the beast. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s worth noting that devils had tails back then. \u00a0Why? \u00a0Because they were\u00a0bestial,\u00a0they were animal like, they were of a lower form. \u00a0Angels did not have tails. \u00a0Devils did. \u00a0It\u2019s this sort of trying to \u2018gross out\u2019 the person looking at a manuscript that many scribes were aiming at. \u00a0So a snake playing an instrument with its, well, butt, was simply a way of saying something. \u00a0Just like our modern era, when\u00a0filmmakers\u00a0like Quentin Tarantino must go for the uber-violent to make a point, that\u2019s all they were doing. \u00a0Does that mean those old scribes in their monastic scriptoriums couldn\u2019t be risque in their own terms? \u00a0Not at all, and anyone who has read some of the\u00a0scribblings on their manuscripts knows that the medieval monks were no prudes. \u00a0But being\u00a0ornery\u00a0and sleazy is not\u00a0the\u00a0final\u00a0explanation\u00a0for many of these images. \u00a0They actually point to things that Medieval thinkers firmly believed, that many in our enlightened West forgot long ago.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"