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Student Doodles from the Middle Ages
- ginko 12y agoAlso related: The doodles by a 13th century 6 or 7 year-old: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onfim http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onfim
- benbreen 12y agoThat's wonderful, thank you. I love that we can know the kid's name (and that he apparently dreamed of being a knight, given his self-portrait!).
- Robadob 12y agoThe way the stick men are drawn in contrast to today is really interesting.
- musername 12y agothis is interesting and really cute, but without context it's meaning remains cryptic. I.e. I'd really like to know where he was taught, what family he came from, etc. The article mentions high degree of literacy in the population, but I don't think (public) schools were a thing then. So my best guess is about military service as a civil duty and literacy as part of early childhood military education. Not to say conditioning. I find that thought too pessimistic, anyhow. But jolly peasents engaged in vocational exercise doesn't strike me as very common for the time.
- anateus 12y agoNo, it was religious education. I don't know the exact situation in Novgorod at the time, but throughout Europe in urban or near-urban areas it was common for first sons to inherit the family business, while subsequent sons would undertake some sort of religious training, either monastic or not.
- musername 12y agoAh, of course. Assuming the close relation of knighthood and religion, I still wouldn't dismiss my unfounded theory.
- kosmic_k 12y agoThere's something about these that just feels incredibly human.
- UhUhUhUh 12y agoCan't cage human mind. Never could, never will.