LopensLeftArm@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoTIL that a bunch of medieval manuscripts featured illustrations of knights fighting giant snails, and no one knows whywww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up177arrow-down15
arrow-up172arrow-down1external-linkTIL that a bunch of medieval manuscripts featured illustrations of knights fighting giant snails, and no one knows whywww.bbc.comLopensLeftArm@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square27fedilink
minus-squareTaleya@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·7 months agoMonks did most of the writing and artwork. Monks main diet was brassicas. They grew their own food. Do the math, it’s wish fulfillment
minus-squarenilloc@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 months agoThat’s my guess too. Snail plague there heart to be evidence of it somewhere. Also when did escargot become popular?
minus-squareJungleJim@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoI think you’re really on to something here, if you don’t work in history or something, you should run this by a historian or scholar and see what they think
minus-squareEheran@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoBrassica, it is ALWAY brassica.
minus-squareStar@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·7 months agoHey, that’s clever. Snails are a scourge of gardening. “I want to kill those suckers.” It makes sense that they made doodles of their desirrd victory over the garden-munching snails.
Monks did most of the writing and artwork.
Monks main diet was brassicas.
They grew their own food.
Do the math, it’s wish fulfillment
That’s my guess too. Snail plague there heart to be evidence of it somewhere. Also when did escargot become popular?
I think you’re really on to something here, if you don’t work in history or something, you should run this by a historian or scholar and see what they think
Brassica, it is ALWAY brassica.
Always
Hey, that’s clever. Snails are a scourge of gardening. “I want to kill those suckers.”
It makes sense that they made doodles of their desirrd victory over the garden-munching snails.