Medieval Cats: Claws, Paws, and Kitties of Yore

$15.99 at Philadelphia Museum of Art.

A hilarious celebration of cats in artwork from medieval times. Look what the cat dragged in from the Middle Ages—a curious compendium of cats unlike any you’ve ever lapped up before. Here’s the purrfect bedside companion for cat people! Witty captions accompany these darkly depraved cat illustrations, and they're hissterical! For more than a milliennium, between 500 and 1500, a myriad of medieval manuscripts and artworks painted an unpretty picture of cats as nothing more than lazy, selfish, and vicious…