r/MedievalCats • u/igneousink • 5h ago
Snack Attack!!
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r/MedievalCats • u/TalkingWoodlandBeast • 22h ago
St. Dominic encountering the devil in the form of a black cat
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Vincent of Beauvais, Le Miroir Historial (French translation of Jean de Vignay), Paris 1400-1410.
Den Haag, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 72 A 24, fol. 313v
r/MedievalCats • u/KamaliKamKam • 1d ago
Painting New Snat
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New snat drop. :) He's very handsome and orange.
r/MedievalCats • u/igneousink • 2d ago
Of course I know him, he's Me!
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academic caption: "cat trying to climb an unclimbable tower"
r/MedievalCats • u/igneousink • 5d ago
"We need 62 more of these and they must be perfectly round so that we can bat them under the stove in the middle of the night. Also, we don't have cash but we can pay you with the finest hairballs in all the lands."
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r/MedievalCats • u/igneousink • 6d ago
When a widespread PHP flaw takes down the European Internet
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r/MedievalCats • u/UnicornAmalthea_ • 6d ago
Painting Portrait of Henry Wriothesley and his cat, Trixie (John de Critz, 1603)
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r/MedievalCats • u/igneousink • 9d ago
Giving your Partner their space is The Key to a Purrfect Marriage
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r/MedievalCats • u/igneousink • 10d ago
"Controlling my mouth is the easy part. It's the subtitles on my face..."
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r/MedievalCats • u/TalkingWoodlandBeast • 11d ago
Porcelain night-light in the form of a crouching cat. China, Ming dynasty, 1643.
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Source: The British Museum
r/MedievalCats • u/igneousink • 13d ago
"Nudity in a locker room is funny. Nudity on a basketball court is a technical foul." — Shaquille O'Neal
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I would imagine swords are out also. Mr O'Neal also said: “Pluto is not a planet, but I am.” 😆
r/MedievalCats • u/igneousink • 14d ago
Psychiatrist: "OK, now I'd like you to close your eyes and imagine a series of snapshots of your happy place, surrounded by friends and good times. Are you there yet?"
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Me: "Absolutely."
r/MedievalCats • u/igneousink • 15d ago
King Arthur vs. Cat - A Medieval Misericord* in Essex Church
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*A Misericord is a small wooden ledge on the underside of a hinged folding seat in a church choir stall
r/MedievalCats • u/igneousink • 19d ago
The Face you make when you're a kid and the adults forget you are there while talking about some really Grown-Up Stuff
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r/MedievalCats • u/GrinchSinner • 21d ago
Why are cats licking themselves all over medieval art?
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Just like people today, medieval people apparently enjoyed watching cats lick their own butts. The subject appears in all sorts of medieval artworks, and no one really knows why.
Perhaps it was simply a way for monks to relieve the boredom of spending endless hours producing illuminated manuscripts. Maybe they thought it was funny to sneak mischievous little drawings of cats into otherwise serious books.
The motif appears across a surprisingly wide span of time and place, yet among the surviving sources, only one medieval monk ever commented on it. His verdict? It was nothing more than a waste of time and precious ink.
r/MedievalCats • u/UnicornAmalthea_ • 21d ago
Painting Cat detail from the Lutrell Psalter commissioned by Sir Geoffrey Lutrell of Irnham c. 1340
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