Pure Evils ancestry is alleged to include eight saints: Vladimir the Great, Saint Anna of Russia, the Holy Martyrs Boris and Gleb, Saint Stephen of Hungary, Saint Margaret of Scotland and Saint Mathilde together with Saint Thomas More, Humbert III of Savoy and several European royal families.He was also a descendant of the Old English Chieftain Ailric, Kings Thane to Edward the Confessor, who held Cawthorne and much of South Yorkshire before the Conquest. HistoryExtra content director David Musgrove rounds up the latest medieval stories on the website this week considering chivalry, medieval prisoners of war, and rabbits in medieval marginalia. Inspired by skateboard culture and the west coast character graffiti of Twist he returned to London and picked up a spraycan and started painting weird fanged vampire bunnies everywhere. Violent bunnies are not just from Monty Python-they were a common image in medieval manuscripts. Medieval (ish) matters 5: chivalry, medieval killer rabbits and prisoners of war in the 15th century. In 1990 PURE EVIL left the Poll Tax Riots of London behind and went to live in California where he spent 10 years ingesting weapons grade psychedelics, thinking about stuff, making electronic music and printing t-shirts. With this busy background (Sir Thomas was later canonised) it is only natural that Pure Evil should explore the darker side of the wreckage of Utopian dreams and the myth of the Apocalypse, a belief in the life-changing event that brings history with all its conflicts to an end. Who is Pure Evil? To understand a bit about Pure Evil it is illuminating to know that he is a descendant of Sir Thomas More, the Lord Chancellor who wrote the controversial work Utopia and who was later beheaded by King Henry VIII. One historical question remains unanswered: to what extent did they influence that pillar of modern cinematic comedy, Monty Python and the Holy Grail? The usual imagery of the rabbit in Medieval art is that of purity and helplessness – that’s why some Medieval portrayals of Christ have marginal art portraying a veritable petting zoo of innocent, nonviolent, little white and brown bunnies going about their business in a field. Hunting scenes, also commonly appear in medieval marginalia, and "this usually means that the bunny is the hunted however, as we discovered, often the illuminators decided to change the roles around. Often, in medieval manuscripts’ marginalia we find odd images with all sorts of monsters, half man-beasts, monkeys, and more, Even in religious books the margins sometimes have drawings that simply are making fun of monks, nuns and bishops. 2 colour screenprint with hand-finishing Unique signed 1/1 320gsm Fedrigoni paper Print: 70 x 70cm In all the kingdom of nature, does any creature threaten us less than the gentle rabbit? Though the question may sound entirely rhetorical today, our medieval ancestors took it more seriously - especially if they could read illuminated manuscripts, and even more so if they drew in the margins of those manuscripts themselves.
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