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Black Hours, Morgan MS 493
- colin_mccabe 4y agoTL;DR: Dark Mode in medieval times
- tpmx 4y agoAfter this and that Gutenberg 42 line bible sub comment thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32711719 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32711719, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutenberg_Bible https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutenberg_Bible) - technically quite interesting! - are there any interesting ~medieval books that are not bibles/religious texts? Preferably with translations into somewhat modern English?
- DougN7 4y agoThe Iceland Sagas (Egil’s Saga, etc) are worth reading
- hprotagonist 4y agoFroissart’s Chronicles, the lay of roland or any other chanson de geste, piers plowman, the canterbury tales, de rea metallica, on divers arts, gawain and the green knight, … possibly too early, late, or religious: beowulf, the anglo-saxon chronicle, the chronicles of matthew paris, shakespeare…
- tpmx 4y agoBrilliant. This is going to take some time to go through, but after 20 minutes of Googling and reading bits and pieces it looks like pretty much exactly what I was thinking about.
- hprotagonist 4y agooh, and of course https://www.pepysdiary.com/ https://www.pepysdiary.com/ which is also post-medieval, but great.
- B1FF_PSUVM 4y agoBefore Canterbury: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Decameron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Decameron There's a book somewhere: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Cid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Cid Further north: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edda https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edda
- kjellsbells 4y agodecameron is always a fun read. the divine comedy too, but is religiously inspired, if not strictly religious.
- drewcoo 4y ago> are there any interesting medieval books that are not bibles/religious texts Yes. All of them. The thing is that manuscripts were expensive. And fancy manuscripts with colors and drawings and gold leaf were even more expensive. That meant the required well-monied patrons. And often that meant the church. Or some noble intent on going to heaven who really needed a spendy book of hours to help get there. There were others, though. Check this out: an early sort of graphic novel about Alexander the Great! https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/244349/exhibition-on-rare-trebizond-alexander-romance-manuscript-opens-in-thessaloniki/ https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/244349/exhibition-on-ra...
- fumeux_fume 4y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnerotomachia_Poliphili https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnerotomachia_Poliphili
- Cupertino95014 4y agoAny truth to the story that some monks would spend an entire year illuminating one letter?