aerialsquid:medievalpoc:elyssediamond submitted to medievalpoc:“Detail of a page from a 13th c
aerialsquid:medievalpoc:elyssediamond submitted to medievalpoc:“Detail of a page from a 13th century Abbreviatio (abridgement) of Domesday Book. A black man wearing brightly coloured stockings is suspended from the initial letter ‘I’.”Date: c.1240The National Archives[source]I really want to know what he’s doing there.Why? There have been black people hanging from letters in illuminated manuscripts for centuries! -- source link