The suffering of the Middle Ages

This book will talk about how in Christian iconography the sacred was intertwined with comical, monstrous and obscene. Much of what today seems outrageous sacrilege, in the Middle Ages, the era of almost universal religiosity, was completely in order of things.
It will be about monkeys in the fields of ancient texts, obscene figures on the walls of churches and saints in monstrous guise. Where did these images come from, and how are they associated with the subsequent development of world art?
The first scientific and popular text in Russian, covering so many plots of medieval iconography, is released on the initiative of the “suffering Middle Ages”-a community of history lovers that united almost half a million subscribers . More than 600 illustrations, a unique text and a little humor - this is how it should be said about art