Suffering from the Middle Ages

This book will talk about how in Christian iconography the sacred was intertwined with comic, monstrous and obscene. Much of what today seems outrageous sacrilege, in the Middle Ages, the era of almost universal religiosity, was completely in order of things.

we will talk about monkeys on the fields of ancient texts, obscene figures on the walls of churches and the saints in monstrous Office. Where did these images come from, and how are they associated with the subsequent development of world art?

the first science and popular text in Russian, covering so many plots of medieval iconography, is published on the initiative of the “suffering Middle Ages”-communities of history lovers uniting Almost half a million subscribers. More than 600 illustrations, a unique text and a little humor - this is how to talk about art.