![]() ![]() You can see more marginal scenes of the rabbit’s revenge at Sexy Codicology, Colossal, and Kaneko-James’ blog. Their decorative apparatus include shiny initials, painted miniatures, and marginal illustrations. The most well-known ones like the Lindisfarne Gospels, were mainly produced by Christian monks, between 5 CE. Given how often we denizens of the 21st century have trouble getting humor from less than a century ago, it feels satisfying indeed to laugh just as hard at these drolleries as our medieval forebears must have - though many more of us surely get to see them today, circulating as rapidly on social media as they didn’t when confined to the pages of illuminated manuscripts owned only by wealthy individuals and institutions. Medieval Illuminated manuscripts were written by hand and illuminated with gold and silver. Then, of course, we have the bunnies making their attacks while mounted on snails, snail combats being “another popular staple of Drolleries, with groups of peasants seen fighting snails with sticks, or saddling them and attempting to ride them.” enjoy, or even take nourishment from it : Gif min bearn wera brucan willa. ![]() GIF hot dog, flee, scorpiondagger, best animated GIFs medieval manuscript. Even in religious books the margins sometimes have drawings that simply are making fun of monks, nuns and bishops. Manuscript GIFs on GIFER - the largest GIF search engine on the Internet. We see this in the Middle English nickname Stickhare, a name for cowards” - and in all the drawings of “tough hunters cowering in the face of rabbits with big sticks.” Often, in medieval manuscripts’ marginalia we find odd images with all sorts of monsters, half man-beasts, monkeys, and more, writes Sexy Codicology’s Marjolein de Vos. This enjoyment of the “world turned upside down” produced the drollery genre of “the rabbit’s revenge,” one “often used to show the cowardice or stupidity of the person illustrated. ![]()
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