November 29th, 2017 -- by Bacchus
Dance And Play
This is not Maurice Sendak illustrating A Good Time Among The Wild Pagans; in fact the images are from from a medieval illuminated manuscript in the Hague, about which I can’t tell you much more because the database links there are broken and don’t lead anywhere. From context and some of the other captions, I’m guessing these are Roman pagan revels as imagined by sneering medieval churchmen, but I could be eight kinds of wrong. Looks like reasonably good partying to me!
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Even better, it seems to be a City of God “But not yet” indeed! http://manuscri...+A+11
In the second image: that’s Tingle!
Allegedly Hieronymus Bosch, a member of the Brethren of the Free Spirit, painted Adamites in his famous painting Garden of Earthly Delights:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki
/The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights#/media/
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Perhaps this is a somewhat similar undertaking… (The Adamites, an Early Christian sect that gathered mostly in North Africa in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th centuries, enjoyed worshipping in the nude…)