Scribes decorated medieval manuscripts with all kinds of weird thing, like rabbits, cats, Star Wars characters, and lots of snails. Snails very often appear to be doing battles with knights -or, more accurately, the knig...

We’ve seen some pretty unusual things that pop up in medieval religious manuscripts. Now it appears that one features a certain Jedi master from long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away. Julian Harrison of Medieval...

Salome was not just a dancer, but apparently a con...  ...ll, at least according to this early 14th-century illumination . We know it's Salome because the accompanying illumination

Anniina at Luminarium Blog baked cookies and d...  ...og baked cookies and decorated them with medieval illuminations printed on edible paper with edible ink. They tur...