#research. same with the cardinals. i will Keep Going until i hit an insurmountable wall | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

sforzesco · 6 months ago

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frequently what happens is I'll be drawing a comic and think, huh. I wonder what shoes a 14th/15th century cardinal would wear. I bet they had fancy rules about it, and the answer will be in a 500 page book about the early modern cardinal. I'll think, 'WELLLLLL since I'm already here, I'll check out this other chapter that sounds interesting,' and then I'll find out that the vatican is literally hazardous to your health, but from that point on I'll be locked in for the entire book. I'll start reading through all the citations while checking to see what else some of the contributors have written. the comic has been forgotten entirely because I need to know more about the hats.

#my folder on the knights templar and other military-monastic orders is MASSIVE because i keep spiralling into other areas of #research. same with the cardinals. i will Keep Going until i hit an insurmountable wall #i have like. several books about syphilis in the medieval/renaissance era because i disagreed with something someone said #and then had to follow that up with reading about malaria throughout history #i may have to actually learn latin for this one and. well! if i must. then i will #i wont be happy about it but i'll do it (<<< someone who absolutely does not have to do this in the slightest)

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