death-reel

Updated: May 15, 2025

And the art of the Middle Ages was the fantastic, far-fetched, and often morbid production of nations of crusaders and theologians, burning heretics, worshipping ladies, seeing visions, and periodically joining hands in a vertiginous death-reel, whose figures were danced from country to country.

Vernon Lee - Renaissance Fancies and Studies: Being a Sequel to Euphorion