Since monastic life depended on books, it was natural that monks and nuns came to produce them. Many monasteries included a scriptorium, a dedicated writing room where books were carefully copied by hand. In Northern Europe, the scriptorium was often located next to Calfactorium (warming room), where a fire was kept burning, allowing scribes to
IIn 1474, in a fictional location in Southern Europe, Father Alberto arrives from Jormel Abbey, where he has failed in his ambition to become a manuscript illuminator in its famous scriptorium. He is the new parish priest of the villages of Hem and Long, whose congregants are generally “piebald and misguided”, but not the most
Have you ever heard of bunions? Me, I love learning about history, but still, this was new to me. If you’re in the same boat, here’s what they have on the website Medievalbritain.com means As a “medieval area-negation weapon”, and this is because of two things. For one thing, no matter how you throw them,