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Why Animals Look So Strange in Medieval Manuscripts

Open Culture 22 April 2026 13h ago
Why Animals Look So Strange in Medieval Manuscripts
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Though you may not hear it every day, chimera remains an evocative word, perhaps even more so for its rarity. It descends from the Greek Khimaira, literally “year-old she-goat,” the name of a mythical fire-breathing creature with a caprine body, sure enough, but also the head of a lion and the tail of a dragon. Today […]
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