OK, I'd probably have to be a man to be able to do it (but I would even undergo surg....no wait, I don't want it THAT bad
)... but if I could choose any occupation in the Middle Ages it would *most definitely* be that of a monk illuminator. I mean, the kind of art they produced is unbelievable and unique. Specifically I would like to be Eadfrith, the man who made the F***ING incredible Lindisfarne Gospel, which I like even better than the Book of Kells.
Check some of its pages on one of these sites, but be warned, it doesn't even come near seeing the original in the British Library in London. When I saw it there it was like a dream come true, and I have been hanging with my head over the vitrine for an hour, with tears in my eyes making dirty spots on the glass
Yeah, ok, so I'm an enthusiast
The links:
site from B.Library
various manuscripts
and two silly address book covers but you can see the artwork up close and enlarged: stunning
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Melusine, Archbabe of the OHF and the LH
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