Drollery is a site devoted to medieval literature, with particular attention to the texts that survive in manuscript and the images that live in their margins.

The word drollery originally referred to the small, often humorous or grotesque drawings found in the margins of medieval books: hybrids, animals out of place, clerical satire, and other playful interruptions of the page. Related terms include marginalia and grotesques. The modern sense of the word (something whimsical or oddly amusing) grew from the same root.

This site takes both senses seriously. The primary work is in the Folio : substantial entries on medieval texts, with context, transcription or translation where useful, and proper sources. The Marginalia section holds the images, notes, observations, and related sources collected along the way while gathering those texts, material that illuminates, echoes, or simply belongs beside the medieval works.

The project is deliberately limited. It is not a comprehensive medieval studies resource, nor a personal blog. It exists to give careful attention to particular texts and the visual and literary world that surrounds them.