Under John of Patmos, dragons had become unambiguous symbols of evil, and they inhabited the medieval gospels and hagiographies of early Christianity as chiefs among demons, but even as Christianity ...

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A recent visit to the Cloisters, the uptown medieval branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, brought home a truth ... in an elegant stone box – as in most current museums and churches ...

A half-man, half-bird beast ... Weird Medieval Guys. Since 2019, Swarthout has been gathering images of the bizarre and fantastical drawings she’s found in Medieval manuscripts, art, and ...