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The Monkey Apocalypse (Mmm... Marginalia)
OK, folks. It has been pointed out several times that this blog has become unduly concerned--perhaps even obsessed--with monkeys. That's a fair cop.* But bear with me for just a little while longer here, as I take you on a tour of the margins of the "Hours of Englebert of Nassau," a Dominican... Read more...
Published 2 days ago

New Items in the Ye Olde Got Medieval Shoppe
At a reader's request, I've also a href="http://www.cafepress.com/gotmedieval/6048703"added coasters to the Cafe Press site/a. I've not had time to order one myself yet, but they look nice. I've also started experimenting with photoshop, trying to restore some of the color that has been washed... Read more...
Published 2 days ago

Welcome to October
According to medieval calendars, October is the time for sowing your seeds. Also, it's the time to be on the lookout for giant six-armed taloned bear monsters.*br /br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"... Read more...
Published a week ago

Text on the Margins (Mmm... Marginalia)
Following up on my recent tirade about medieval textual precociousness, let's leave the monkeys behind for a week and instead peer into the lower margin of this manuscript of Alain de Lille's span style="font-style:italic;"Anticlaudianus/span.  br /br /a onblur="try... Read more...
Published a week ago

The myth of pre-literacy
I've been reading BoingBoing extra carefully this week, hoping that Cory would comment on his a href="http://gotmedieval.blogspot.com/2008/09/proof-of-medieval-time-travel-mmm.html"monkey doppleganger/a. Alas, nothing yet. But this extra attention means that I haven't been able to just ignore... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago

Proof of Medieval Time Travel? (Mmm... Marginalia)
Last week, I posted a picture of a superheroic monkey that reminded some readers of a superheroic blogger, a href="http://dynamic.boingboing.net/profile/Cory%20Doctorow"Cory Doctorow/a of BoingBoing. I'll let you be the judge:br /br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();}... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago

Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! (Mmm... Marginalia)
From the same manuscript as last week's a href="http://gotmedieval.blogspot.com/2008/09/medieval-origins-of-common-phrases-mmmm.html"azz-tappers/a,* allow me to present another famous first, the first monkey superhero:br /br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"... Read more...
Published 3 weeks ago

Don't Stop. Believing.*
For fans of really long recaps of movies (sort of MST3K in text), span style="font-style: italic;"The Agony Booth/span has just postedspan style="text-decoration: underline;" its/spana href="http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Quest_for_Camelot_1998.aspx" review/recap/a of the 1998 film animated... Read more...
Published 3 weeks ago

The Medieval Origins of Common Phrases (Mmmm... Marginalia)
At this point, we've all gotten the email at least once. No, I don't mean the one from the Nigerian male enhancement lottery asking us to validate our eBay account information, but, you know, the one titled something like "a href="http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~genepool/sayings.htm"Famous... Read more...
Published 4 weeks ago

And You Thought Tomatoes Were Dangerous...
Did you know that tomato sales are still down in the wake of that whole salmonella thing?divbr //divdivI think it's unfair that my favorite fruit has had to labor under this cloud of suspicion all summer.   So, attention media types: I have your next big story about the dangerous lurking in your... Read more...
Published a month ago

An Arthurian Wiki
Now is as good a time as any to come out of the closet as an Arthurian and plug my next great Internet venture: a href="http://kingarthur.wikia.com/"Quondam et Futurus: An Arthurian Wiki/a.*br /br /Here's my thinking. There's a wiki on the Muppets that lists every appearance of the a... Read more...
Published a month ago

Introducing the new Honda Elephant (Mmm... Marginalia)
This week's marginal curiosity comes to us courtesy of a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Paris"Matthew Paris/a, a thirteenth-century Benedictine monk, historian, and illuminator of no small talent. The following is from the span style="font-style: italic;"Chronica Majora/span:br /br... Read more...
Published a month ago