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Candy's avatar

Its a beautiful place. That ceiling!

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Stephan Sander-Faes's avatar

There's so many comparable places in Central Europe, with Klosterneuburg and Murau, as well as Melk Abbey standing out:

https://www.stiftmelk.at/en/library-collections/melk-abbey-library/

Of course, these are extra-nice, but in the Middle Ages, they were quite…different, and Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose (there's also a quite good movie by that name) provides a vivid image of them.

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cm27874's avatar

The movie was filmed at Kloster Eberbach in the Rheingau (strip of land along the Rhine to the West of Wiesbaden, ending in Rüdesheim, which is a tourist magnet), not far from where we live.

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Candy's avatar

Thank you. I’ll check it out

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Markker's avatar

Beautiful place. Hope you have only few revisions and can give yourself a big pat on the back, with a Schnapps, or two!

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Stephan Sander-Faes's avatar

It's not merely the revisions and corrections, but the biggest pain in the proverbial is, as always, the elimination of references to "ADD LATER" or the like (which I add when I'm "in the flow"). Cheers, mate, nonetheless!

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Eva's avatar

Congratulations on nearing your book draft completion, very exciting.

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Stephan Sander-Faes's avatar

Oh, it is very exciting, and I'm very much looking forward getting this one off my table to look at the next project!

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Stephan Sander-Faes's avatar

Maybe the world was different back then? I think we're all a bit spoiled, for lack of a better term, by the ubiquity and presumed "photo-realism" of digital images.

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