We love to laugh at medieval bestiaries, with their odd images drawn by cluele...  ...nce of Beasts. The images and text are drawn from Medieval Bestiary : Animals In The Middle Ages website and from the...  ...e and from the 13th-century book Bodleian Library Bestiary . But be...

A bonnacon is a legendary medieval beast that struck terror into the hearts of man....  ...bed by Aristotle, it was widely known by the time medieval bestiaries were written, accompanied by rich illu...

We've had a lot of fun in the past with medieval bestiaries, full of inaccurate depictions of anim...  ...for some reason, that wasn't a thing. As it was, medieval artists always seemed to start with a dog and add...

Thread: everyone knows that medieval art is filled with snails fighting knights, but t...  ...ls fighting knights, but there's actually a whole medieval snail ecology and society, from snail-birds to sn...  ...gets very very silly.Erik Wade presents us with a bestiary of sorts...

We have often looked at medieval bestiaries and marveled at the misunderstandings...  ...y Center in Los Angeles takes a different look at medieval depictions of animals, that they were used to imp...  ...or third centuries CE, provides a predecessor to medieval bestiaries and b...

In modern pop culture, mermaids are benign and oft...  ...aid, The Shape of Water, and even Aquaman. But in medieval times, sea sirens were deadly as well as sexy. A...  ...who is also known for her cannibalistic taste.The Medieval thinkers picked up the cue readily enough. Althou...  ...ns are more and more pic...

The Aberdeen Bestiary was written in England around 1200 AD. Bestiaries...  ...r illustrations were even more rare. The Aberdeen Bestiary was illustrated in full color, and is a treasure...  ...lustrated in full color, and is a treasure of the medieval era. It's been in the poss...

In medieval bestiaries, we are liable to see real but exotic...  ...ith a trumpet nose? One of the mysteries of the bestiary form is what the first one looked like. The tradi...

We all know about dragons, mermaids, and unicorns, but there are plenty of other fantastical beasts handed down through the centuries that don’t get as much as today. Yes, our ancestors had documented bestiaries fu...

It’s true; I have never heard of any of thes...  ...true; I have never heard of any of these fabulous medieval creatures before. The descriptions all compare pa...  ...a built-in flamethrower.According to the Aberdeen Bestiary , "in Asia an animal is found which men call Bonna...  ...ent."All these weird a...