Check out this big...uh...hit

An image so drrrrrrrrrty we had to edit it for Facebook. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x52toyUL_L4

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Besançon, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 0457, f. 273v. Avicenna, Canon medicinae. Paris, 3rd quarter of the 13th century.

Death rollin'

Take a ride on the dark side...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qBa8lOJYN4&feature=youtu.be

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incredibly beautiful

Hart MS 20966, Venetian Book of Hours, c. 1470-80, f. 106v.

Zeppelin mashup

This song has always seemed medieval to me. Just learned it was a traditional English folk song, so that explains it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJg-ZmHV4E0

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‘C’(rimen) of a man hanging from gallows.

Hans Weiditz's drinker, 1521. German woodcut.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD6jzn92cWU

Biggie mashup!

Aaaaand, here's what I got today:




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glEiPXAYE-U


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Tthe Smithfield Decretals, French with English marginalia, late 13th century or early 14th century, Royal 10 E. iv, f. 139

Shaggy style

http://www.slack-time.com/music-video-251-Shaggy-It-Wasnt-Me


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1175, Le Roman de Renart

Here, Renard is being chased by the wolf Ysengrin and his wife, Hersent. Renart
loses Ysengrin and Hersent traps herself chasing Renart into a small area.
Renart takes the opportunity to make the best of the situation. ;)  

Disco Death

 

You know you wanna...

Dance of Death, Germany, 16th century

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj23_nDFSfE

Hey, Sister!

You prolly thought I forgot about this. I haven't. Back and more FIERCE than EVAR!

1301 manuscript illumination, Friar and Nun

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4LWIP7SAjY

Ratt mashup

Little Ratt mashup for your Tuesday:

Marginalia from illuminated psalter using animals in fortune's wheel (clockwise, from the top, represents: regno, regnavi, sum sine regno, regnabo)

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u8teXR8VE4

Meatloaf Mashup

Hello, friends!  Here's your medieval mashup for the day.  Kinda hate myself for this, but if you're familiar with Chretien de Troyes version of Lancelot, it works.

c.1300 Lancelot pulled in the cart by a dwarf

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GNhdQRbXhc

Drowning Pool mashup

Illustration of the Battle of Barnet (14 April 1471) on the Ghent manuscript, a late 15th-century document

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04F4xlWSFh0

Rolling Stones mashup

Grotesques (marginalia) from a 13th-century Romance of Alexander

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNY8eYmzdH4

Beatles mashup

Detail from the Emperor's Bible: Matthew the Evangelist

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taADLPtyDb0

Inquisition mashup

Unknown, depiction of the Inquisition

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK62tfoCmuQ

Hurt mashup

14th century French

Bibliothèque de Genève

Français 178: Le Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb4qyuR7_cc

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or the Johnny Cash version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aF9AJm0RFc

Donna Summer mashup

For all you working women...

Maciejowski Bible, 13th century, Boaz and Ruth

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3FAnvATfrM

Radiohead mashup

It's my jam, YO

15th-century marginalia

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFkzRNyygfk

Norah Mashup

A demon firing an arrow into the buttocks of a merman

Found via Image on the Edge: The Margins of Medieval Art by Michael Camille.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpDGGZLkgqM

Godfather mashup

woodcut print of A Dance of Death from Liber Chronicarum 

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lla6QGVqD4w

The king of mashups

The Rochester Bestiary c.1230

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzQ8GDBA8Is

Missy Elliot mash-up

Book of Hours, France 15th century. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 33, fol. 79v

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UODX_pYpVxk