Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Describe the medieval imagination.

People in medieval times could not understand the world around them, therefore they made things up, sometimes things that may or could not ever exist. No matter how crazy the animal or creature seemed, people always seemed to believe that they were real. Some things that they made up were a person coming down from the sky, but dying because they could not breathe our air. Also they had the idea that there were such things as people who still had the soul of a human, but they had the head of a dog.(http://web.cn.edu/KWHEELER/monster_list.html) The people of Medieval times accepted this without question, and they had many arguments based on that, if they ever, saw the dog headed animal, would they try to preach to it and convert it into Christianity. The people of Medieval times had a very big imagination, that sometimes got the better of them.


"List of Medieval and Ancient Monsters." Web. 14 Apr. 2010. http://web.cn.edu/KWHEELER/monster_list.html.
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