So you think that those monks who transcribed all those Medieval manuscripts and illuminated them so artfully were pious and holy and thinking of God the whole time, right?
Wrong. Notes scribbled into the margins of the parchments they were working on reveal another, more human story: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/03/21/monk-complaints-manusc\ ripts/ <http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/03/21/monk-complaints-manus\ cripts/> "Now I've written the whole thing: For Christ's sake give me a drink."
