Oh, My Hand: Complaints Medieval Monks Scribbled in the Margins of Illuminated Manuscripts

[WilliamPitt]

Really, really cool.

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/03/21/monk-complaints-manuscripts/

[HappyMe]

1. Very cool.

I guess I never thought that the monks would do that.

[snagglepuss]

2. Very powerful reading. The suffering is so immediate.

I am reminded of the final shot in phenomenal documentary about cave paintings,The Cave of Forgotten Dreams. The final shot was the the imprint of a hand, an imprint that could have been made yesterday.

[WolverineDG]

5. available for streaming on netflix btw nt

[nuxvomica]

3. Finally, a good substitute for "The End"

Novels should close with "Now I've written the whole thing: for Christ's sake give me a drink."

[Orrex]

4. In college I had access to an extremely hi-res scanned reproduction of The Exeter Book

On one of the pages was clearly visible the ring-shaped stain from the bottom of a mug.

Likely placed there by a drinker gone to dust 500 years ago.

Boggles the mind.

[rug]

6. "Now I've written the whole thing: for Christ's sake give me a drink."

[Odin2005]

7. That one made me LOL!