Man it's been a busy week... But back to rolling my eyes at this nonsense!
Yeah, now I think about it any monk who left dirty dishes lying around would get in serious trouble for it. 'Cleanliness is next to godliness' is a variation on numerous sayings in the church going right back to the days of the Old Testament. Being clean and keeping your surroundings clean was and is considered to be one of the fundamental aspects of living a good and holy life. Also if you know anything about how monasteries of the kind Douglas is trying to imitate work, you know that they're often used as meeting places for the high and mighty, places to rest for nobility and peasantry alike, hospitals, places to marry... Being dirty is simply a detriment to all of their practical and social duties.
(If you're interested in seeing the functioning of a real monastery in action, I'd actually suggest the Cadfael novels by Ellis Peters. She did an absolutely insane amount of research and apart from the titular Brother Cadfael himself, every monk in the series is based upon a real person and the Shrewsbury Monastery and its goings-on are replicated in incredible detail. The series is actually what got me curious about the real workings of monastries and convents in the first place!)
“illuminations of incredible beauty.” The inks have “vivid hues”, and “gold and silver paints glitter[] among the rainbow enamels of the script.” Pretty, but impractical, I would say.
This is all very true to life! Books written or copied by monks were often incredible works of art, as preserving knowledge was another vital aspect of the services they provided. A talented illuminator could gain quite a name for themself amongst the clergy and scholars of the day, and since the books made then were created to last for as long as humanly possible, they were made beautiful to give glory unto the God who gave rise to the knowledge they were preserving. While enamel was to my knowledge NOT used, the vivid inks they used and the vellum they created genuinely did lead to no small number of works surviving to the modern day.
I'm sure Chessy already beat me to most of this but I just love having the chance to share knowledge with people. I probably would've been a monk (or nun depending on country) if I'd been born back then, because I'm obsessed with learning and have little regard for hedonism.
Veremund and Ogden are definitely some kind of mage, and I want to smack them with their massive tome for using their magic to be jerks. I'm honestly surprised Axis isn't terrified of what they're doing to him, it sounds like a nightmare to me!
And once again the supposed villain is the only person here talking sense. Poor Gilbert, he just wants to do his job and he's surrounded by this bullshit. I sense when the full spork happens I will be spiteficcing him a lot of rescues and heroic moments.
no subject
Yeah, now I think about it any monk who left dirty dishes lying around would get in serious trouble for it. 'Cleanliness is next to godliness' is a variation on numerous sayings in the church going right back to the days of the Old Testament. Being clean and keeping your surroundings clean was and is considered to be one of the fundamental aspects of living a good and holy life. Also if you know anything about how monasteries of the kind Douglas is trying to imitate work, you know that they're often used as meeting places for the high and mighty, places to rest for nobility and peasantry alike, hospitals, places to marry... Being dirty is simply a detriment to all of their practical and social duties.
(If you're interested in seeing the functioning of a real monastery in action, I'd actually suggest the Cadfael novels by Ellis Peters. She did an absolutely insane amount of research and apart from the titular Brother Cadfael himself, every monk in the series is based upon a real person and the Shrewsbury Monastery and its goings-on are replicated in incredible detail. The series is actually what got me curious about the real workings of monastries and convents in the first place!)
This is all very true to life! Books written or copied by monks were often incredible works of art, as preserving knowledge was another vital aspect of the services they provided. A talented illuminator could gain quite a name for themself amongst the clergy and scholars of the day, and since the books made then were created to last for as long as humanly possible, they were made beautiful to give glory unto the God who gave rise to the knowledge they were preserving. While enamel was to my knowledge NOT used, the vivid inks they used and the vellum they created genuinely did lead to no small number of works surviving to the modern day.
I'm sure Chessy already beat me to most of this but I just love having the chance to share knowledge with people. I probably would've been a monk (or nun depending on country) if I'd been born back then, because I'm obsessed with learning and have little regard for hedonism.
Veremund and Ogden are definitely some kind of mage, and I want to smack them with their massive tome for using their magic to be jerks. I'm honestly surprised Axis isn't terrified of what they're doing to him, it sounds like a nightmare to me!
And once again the supposed villain is the only person here talking sense. Poor Gilbert, he just wants to do his job and he's surrounded by this bullshit. I sense when the full spork happens I will be spiteficcing him a lot of rescues and heroic moments.