Why are there so many medieval paintings about fighting giant snails?

>Why are there so many medieval paintings about fighting giant snails?

He is not fighting that snail -- he appears to be worshiping it.

Looking at the image, this guy may have a poit. The guy has his sword struck in the ground -- a pretty good "you shall not pass" message, visually. And he is imploring the snail, pleading with the snail -- "Don't come onto this page and eat the the parchment, destroying the words I am dedicating my life to writing, please, Mr. Snail," seems a likely message.

Snails can fuck you up bad when you're not watching

Piss on the snails, sez I.

Indeed. This guy is definitely not fighting. Though he may be begging for sex.

Tbh they aller look like they are from the same book/same artist. Probably a monk who had à weird fetish around snails ?

gugel nose ahl

smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-were-medieval-knights-always-fighting-snails-1728888/

reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/3tva6h/why_are_there_so_many_medieval_paintings_of/

blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2013/09/knight-v-snail.html

aleteia.org/2016/06/22/why-did-medieval-knights-fight-snails/

historybuff.com/historians-still-have-no-idea-why-knights-are-battling-snails-in-so-many-medieval-drawings-NlKpDL2WdJY6

Monks did the artwork, and also spent their time doing shit like gardening and writing stuff.

Snails happen to love fucking up gardens and parchment like said.

So while they enact medieval pest control, they spend some time doodling it, only with a knight shoving a lance through one of the bastards instead of just having Brother Rodric sit by a bush and pick snails off it.

Wtf is this lol.

What's wrong, "brave" knight? Are you feeling... shell shocked?

Who wins?
one thousand fighting knights.
OR
14 giant man eating snails?

Any more rare snails we should be aware of?

Petition for someone to make a greentext about a NEET monk REEing over snails

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It's an old middle age meme. There's some stuff up about it online. It doesn't have any real significance. It'd be like future scholars trying to figure out pepe, Millhouse, and all that other shit.

Because shockingly, medieval people weren't aliens. They had a sense of humour just like us. They got bored and drew weird doodles in the margins, or were directly commissioned to draw weird, fantastical creatures in the margins.

Battling sloth.

I love this thread.

Snail was a symbol of sloth. A Christian (and thus, Knight) must fight with sins, sloth included. That's the first thing.
Second is, monks really fucking hate snails for fucking up their gardens. Thus making them evil and knights fight evil so you have minatures of knights and snails.
Third anserw is that shitposting is nothing new so does memes. Someone should post pic of shitpost of Pompeii. Middle ages were not so diffrent.

They're JoJo references

reminds me of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_graffiti

Didn't the people who commissioned these codexes get pissed off at the monks for doodeling their memes on the margins of (presumably) serious works? Or did they have so few literate men that they had no choice but to accept the codexes like that?

Go back to Veeky Forums you worthless piece of shit
it's bad enough that you're there already

I'd say those were added value more than anything.

Also some of the works would be for their own use so they'd probably let loose more in those.

Can this now be an illuminated manuscript thread?

More Knights of the Holy Snail

Are these maybe references to giant ammonite fossils that were found and identified as mythical beasts, just like dinosaurs were though to be dragons.

>wild vulpex in the picture