[HN Gopher] Black Hours, Morgan MS 493
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Black Hours, Morgan MS 493
Author : benbreen
Score : 15 points
Date : 2022-09-03 22:45 UTC (2 days ago)
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| colin_mccabe wrote:
| TL;DR: Dark Mode in medieval times
| tpmx wrote:
| After this and that Gutenberg 42 line bible sub comment thread
| (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32711719,
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutenberg_Bible) - technically
| quite interesting! - are there any interesting ~medieval books
| that are not bibles/religious texts? Preferably with translations
| into somewhat modern English?
| hprotagonist wrote:
| Froissart's Chronicles, the lay of roland or any other chanson
| de geste, piers plowman, the canterbury tales, de rea
| metallica, on divers arts, gawain and the green knight, ...
|
| possibly too early, late, or religious: beowulf, the anglo-
| saxon chronicle, the chronicles of matthew paris,
| shakespeare...
| tpmx wrote:
| Brilliant. This is going to take some time to go through, but
| after 20 minutes of Googling and reading bits and pieces it
| looks like pretty much exactly what I was thinking about.
| drewcoo wrote:
| > are there any interesting medieval books that are not
| bibles/religious texts
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| Yes. All of them.
|
| The thing is that manuscripts were expensive. And fancy
| manuscripts with colors and drawings and gold leaf were even
| more expensive. That meant the required well-monied patrons.
| And often that meant the church. Or some noble intent on going
| to heaven who really needed a spendy book of hours to help get
| there.
|
| There were others, though. Check this out: an early sort of
| graphic novel about Alexander the Great!
|
| https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/244349/exhibition-on-ra...
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