BOOK BURNING!
Challenge: you will NEVER guess what book this woodcut illustration of a book burning is from, *or* why it's there! 1/?
(A little thread for the countdown to the release of Inventing the Renaissance)
BOOK BURNING!
Challenge: you will NEVER guess what book this woodcut illustration of a book burning is from, *or* why it's there! 1/?
(A little thread for the countdown to the release of Inventing the Renaissance)
@adapalmer 🤣🤣🤣
It’s from this edition of ZWAAN, a piece of what’s basically sixteenth-century borderline-pornographic fanfic featuring Sir Lancelot having sex with a swan, a much-reprinted pamphlet, transformed every time with infinite additions & fake authors. 2/?
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