Mesocosm

"A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us." – Franz Kafka

Etre au lit au Moyen Age

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The weekend edition of Le Monde carries a beautiful slide show of paintings of people in bed in the Middle Ages. My favorite is the bed painted like the sky to warn off the dangerous rays of the moon (no. 3).

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Written by Mesocosm

May 27, 2011 at 5:17 pm

Posted in Ephemera, Links

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