We all know medieval marginalia is full of some pretty sick snail fights. No one knows why, exactly, but there are hundreds of old drawings of snails in combat with knights in old manuscripts.

Snails appear frequently in medieval manuscripts, often engaging in combat against armed knights, as the British Library noted in a 2013 blog post. Some scholars suspect that the image represents ...

They may not have had the internet, but medieval people still liked to share a joke – as the discovery of what archaeologists are dubbing a historic “meme” found in northern England suggests.

The Morgan exhibit offers an array of illustrated medieval and early Renaissance manuscripts from France, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Iran and Turkey. Accompanying them are maps dating from the 13th ...

The piece dates from 1200-1350 A.D. and experts at the British Museum believe the unusual artifact may have been a form of “medieval meme.” Memes have become an every day part of 21st century ...

They may not have had the internet, but medieval people still liked to share a joke — as the discovery of what archaeologists are dubbing a historic “meme” found in northern England suggests.

They may not have had the internet, but medieval people still liked to share a joke — as the discovery of what archaeologists are dubbing a historic “meme” found in northern England suggests.