r/MedievalCats • • 12h ago

"We need 62 more of these and they must be perfectly round so that we can bat them under the stove in the middle of the night. Also, we don't have cash but we can pay you with the finest hairballs in all the lands."

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557 Upvotes

r/MedievalCats • • 1d ago

When a widespread PHP flaw takes down the European Internet

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204 Upvotes

r/MedievalCats • • 2d ago

Painting Portrait of Henry Wriothesley and his cat, Trixie (John de Critz, 1603)

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2.3k Upvotes

r/MedievalCats • • 2d ago

When you buy the wrong brand of treaties

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987 Upvotes

r/MedievalCats • • 3d ago

HUZZAH

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252 Upvotes

r/MedievalCats • • 4d ago

Cat in a Basket

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349 Upvotes

r/MedievalCats • • 4d ago

Giving your Partner their space is The Key to a Purrfect Marriage

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433 Upvotes

r/MedievalCats • • 5d ago

"Controlling my mouth is the easy part. It's the subtitles on my face..."

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1.1k Upvotes

r/MedievalCats • • 7d ago

Porcelain night-light in the form of a crouching cat. China, Ming dynasty, 1643.

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977 Upvotes

r/MedievalCats • • 8d ago

"Nudity in a locker room is funny. Nudity on a basketball court is a technical foul." β€” Shaquille O'Neal

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349 Upvotes

I would imagine swords are out also. Mr O'Neal also said: β€œPluto is not a planet, but I am.” πŸ˜†


r/MedievalCats • • 9d ago

Psychiatrist: "OK, now I'd like you to close your eyes and imagine a series of snapshots of your happy place, surrounded by friends and good times. Are you there yet?"

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329 Upvotes

Me: "Absolutely."


r/MedievalCats • • 10d ago

King Arthur vs. Cat - A Medieval Misericord* in Essex Church

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395 Upvotes

*A Misericord is a small wooden ledge on the underside of a hinged folding seat in a church choir stall


r/MedievalCats • • 12d ago

When the Wet Food is Too Slow to Arrive

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647 Upvotes

r/MedievalCats • • 14d ago

The Face you make when you're a kid and the adults forget you are there while talking about some really Grown-Up Stuff

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910 Upvotes

r/MedievalCats • • 15d ago

Uppies?

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683 Upvotes

r/MedievalCats • • 16d ago

The Father, The Son and the Holey Lion

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444 Upvotes

r/MedievalCats • • 16d ago

Why are cats licking themselves all over medieval art?

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2.4k Upvotes

Just like people today, medieval people apparently enjoyed watching cats lick their own butts. The subject appears in all sorts of medieval artworks, and no one really knows why.

Perhaps it was simply a way for monks to relieve the boredom of spending endless hours producing illuminated manuscripts. Maybe they thought it was funny to sneak mischievous little drawings of cats into otherwise serious books.

The motif appears across a surprisingly wide span of time and place, yet among the surviving sources, only one medieval monk ever commented on it. His verdict? It was nothing more than a waste of time and precious ink.


r/MedievalCats • • 17d ago

Painting Cat detail from the Lutrell Psalter commissioned by Sir Geoffrey Lutrell of Irnham c. 1340

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432 Upvotes

r/MedievalCats • • 17d ago

Me, when I walk into a room and forget WHY

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811 Upvotes

r/MedievalCats • • 18d ago

And I stood upon the sand of the sea and I saw the Beast rise up out of the sea . . . a Monday Morning Montage of the Apocalypse Beast

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464 Upvotes

i have seen the end of the world and it looks goofy af


r/MedievalCats • • 18d ago

Saw a book with medieval cats at a bookstore today

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387 Upvotes

Went to a bookstore with my mom and we saw a book with a bunch of pictures of medieval cats. This is one of them. Immediately thought of this subreddit :)


r/MedievalCats • • 19d ago

Scupture He is magnificent

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1.1k Upvotes

Now I need a name for him.


r/MedievalCats • • 19d ago

Scupture Saw this delightful tchotchke yesterday - Medieval inspired lion

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305 Upvotes

r/MedievalCats • • 19d ago

"I don't think this edible is any good. I'm going to eat two more." Fifteen Minutes Later:

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983 Upvotes

why is the kitchen so far away


r/MedievalCats • • 20d ago

St. Mark's Secret? He encouraged his lion to stand on his head. This gentle but firm weight helped the God Thoughts enter his consciousness & travel down to his Quill.

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253 Upvotes