Set Project - Some additional ideas

 As I made a little research about witches and witchcraft I am a little bit more amazed by the text and illustrations that were created by monks in lots of books. These people have to be incredibly skilled in creating something that incredibly detailed and beautifully done using only candlelight.


Saint Hieronimus (1501) Venice


Crucifixion (1503) Rosenwald Collection

Monks spend almost whole their life rewriting books. It is not surprising that when they made just a little mistake they have to rewrite their work again maybe that's why it was so time-consuming and expensive which lots of people can not afford. It is said that for one book was able to buy a whole village.  But it all was before the invention of printed books in 1436 by Johannes Guttenberg and after this well not much changed at 16th. 


Priest rewriting the book, author unknown

As the churches and priests were very wealthy, there the rule like "live with items that were given from the believer" did not exist. In the temple, interior design was extravagant and very affluent. For believers were stained - glass windows, full of colours where were showed scenes from the bible.  


Chartres Cathedral window (1145) France

The books were expensive, no one has the chance to learn from the upper class, not to mention farmers who have not had this opportunity at all, the priest could only do so and wealthy people too. As a consequence lots of people were analphabets and they believe in everything that they were told or seen. So it was much easier for authorities to manipulate society.  

I was thinking about adding some text to my Set Project works inspired by 16th handwriting. I am aware that this style might exist already in the Middle Age but it was still used at that time so I want to try and add some letter to my work using fonts such as Gothic, English or German (I am not sure which one yet) that will give some unique character to my work.

German fonts usually are named Fraktur so here are some of the examples:


Fraktur type fonts 




References:

David S. Rose (2019) How were the books copied before the intention of printing books? (Online) https://www.quora.com/How-were-the-books-copied-before-the-invention-of-the-printing-press [04.05.2021]

Saint Hieronimus (1501) https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/heavenlycraft/images/rw0040s.jpg Venice, Library of Congress [04.05.2021] 

Crucifixion (1503) https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/heavenlycraft/images/rw744s.jpg Rosenwald Collection, Venice, Library of Congress  [04.05.2021] 


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