For example, did you know that rubbing one’s eye with the tail from a tom cat will cure a stye? The text includes excerpts from poems, fables, proverbs, and recipes for cures, all involving cats. For example, did you know that rubbing one’s eye with the tail from a tom cat will cure a stye? There’s even a reference to my favorite Medieval monar Medieval Cats is by the same author as Medieval Dogs and follows the same format – a slender volume (89 pages), each filled with full-color illustrations from Medieval books and manuscripts, this time featuring cats of all shapes, sizes, and colors. Medieval Cats is by the same author as Medieval Dogs and follows the same format – a slender volume (89 pages), each filled with full-color illustrations from Medieval books and manuscripts, this time featuring cats of all shapes, sizes, and colors. I think my favorite tidbit in this one was, "The twelfth-century nun Hildegard of Bingen, in her Liber simplicis medicinae, mentions the disloyalty of cats, who only bother to stay with whoever feeds them.". The illustrations are beautiful, and several feature mice along with the cats (some caught, but none gory). Like that one, this is really intended as a gift-book but has nice, intellectually interesting text mainly concerning medieval conceptions of, in this case, cats. And honestly I did like the author's Medieval Dogs better. I think my favorite tidbit in this one was, "The twelfth-century nun Hildegard of Bingen, in her Liber simplic I'm not a cat person, but I do like medieval illuminations. I'm not a cat person, but I do like medieval illuminations. They also invaded bedrooms, for which the Boke of Nurture asked with little success that the owner dryve out dogge and catte, or els geve them a clout.".
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For example, "Cats often had full rein of the dining hall, a situation which books of courtesy despaired of, asking that owners refrain from petting cats sitting on tables. The text is peppered with fascinating facts about the medieval view of cats and amusing anecdotes about people and their pets in the Middle Ages. This charming gift book presents a wealth of cat imagery from a wide variety of medieval sources and will have a wide appeal for cat lovers everywhere. They are depicted as pets, as mousers, in Bestiaries, in marginalia, and in other surprising images-for example, depictions of cats in religious iconography. The te Images of cats appear extensively in medieval manuscripts. Images of cats appear extensively in medieval manuscripts.