The reason so many knights did battle with snails in the margins of medieval manuscripts remains a mystery (Credit: The British Library) The pages of medieval books are stalked by a ferocious ...

From the late 13th century through to the 15th century, images of knights fighting snails pop up in all sorts of unlikely places within the medieval literary world. And they reveal fascinating ...

At the Morgan Library, 15th-century illuminated atlases embody the medieval appetite for wonder and myth. If the past is a ...

Unknown artist, “Snail” (c. 1350), The Netherlands ... associate curator in the Department of Medieval Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Cloisters, told Hyperallergic.

Snails wielding swords and fighting off knights ... These are part of a treasure trove of medieval animal illustrations that has taken the internet by storm. From listicles about "super ugly ...

Occasionally there is more than one. This is the uniquely medieval phenomenon of the fighting snail – and to this day, why they were depicted remains utterly mysterious. "This has created a good ...