#4- Similar Simians

Apes and Monkeys were present in households throughout the Middle Ages and Renaissance as well as being represented in literature and art.

 Sources we mention

  

Michael Camille,  Image on the Edge the Margins of Medieval Art. Reaction Books, 1992.

Samiksha Chopra, “Monkey See, Monkey Do, Monkey Sin,”  Getty  Blogs.

Robert Fludd,  Utriusque cosmi maioris scilicet et maoris metaphysics, physics atque technici historia, 1617-1621. Image of Cosmos with Ape is here.

H. W. Janson, Apes and Ape Lore in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Studies of the Warburg Institute, ed. H. Frankfort, Vol. 20) London: The Warburg Institute, University of London, 1952. 

Frances and Margaret Verney, Memoirs of the Verney Family during the seventeenth century, 1907 .