Fantasy city of castles in a portrait of a medieval woman in the style of cross hatching lino cut print. Unknown artist.

Many of our readers will already be familiar with our Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, a resource which enables you to search by shelfmark, keyword, or date, as well as by more advanced fields such as language and provenance. We thought it was about time to give a reminder that all...

Why were the artists of that era so obsessed with depicting murderous rabbits? See the examples and read the explanation in this eye-opening post!

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The Three Hares is not found in the medieval bestiary but much like The Pelican in her Piety it is a common motif in medieval church carvings. Its meaning is something of a mystery and depictions of it in medieval art have been found as far west as Devon, England and as far East Dunhuang, China. This image was the only one cut from a lino plate while the others have been made to look like linocuts. The plate itself was about 11 inches in diameter which is pretty colossal for a linocut and…

Ilya Stallone, a Russian graphic designer, is fusing the (far) past and the present through Medieval Branding, a logo exploration he published on his Instagram account.

A 16th century drawing of a blemmyae Monsters once lived at the heart of pop culture, albeit during what was arguably the weirdest time to be alive: the Middle Ages. In intrepid, faraway lands you'd find them: neckless men with their faces in their stomachs – known as "blemmyae" – or yet another