Stradaiushchee Srednevekov'e - Zotov S.O., Maizul's M.R., Kharman D.D.

This book will tell about how in Christian iconography the sacred was intertwined with comical, monstrous and obscene. Much of what today seems like outrageous sacrilege, in the Middle Ages, the era of almost universal religiosity, was quite the order of things.
It will be about monkeys on the fields of ancient texts, obscene figures on the walls of churches and about saints in a monstrous guise. Where did these images come from, and how are they related to the subsequent development of world art?
The first non-fiction text in Russian language, covering so many subjects of medieval iconography, is published on the initiative of "Suffering the Middle Ages" - a community of history lovers, uniting almost half a million subscribers. More than 600 illustrations, unique text and a little humor - that's how we should talk about art.