Today, some of the students in my class will be learning about Drolleries. The drolleries are doodles or drawings in the margins of some medieval manuscripts.
They usually involved animals doing human things. A famous drollery is a rabbit knight riding a snail to a joust. The drawings are fun and some of them quite rude. Perhaps the drawings were done to alleviate boredom, to make political commentary, or hallucinations from mushrooms or Ergot poisoning.
"Border decoration showing a cat seated at a table laid with fish in blue dishes, attended by large mice servants. Missal, England, mid-15th century (Bodl., Laud Misc, 302, F.210)" There is also a goblet on the table which is the drink reference for the post.
Medieval Cats by Kathleen Walker-Meikle, British Library, ©2011
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