Towering castles, knights on horseback ... some of the costuming is based on medieval examples, they often use medieval art in the backgrounds of the sets — but it is a work of fantasy.” ...

But even though it seems like there’s no possible explanation for all that knight-on-snail combat, the above video shows some of the top theories. As the video shows, medieval marginal art was ...

"The snail-knight fight is an example of the world turned upside down, a broader phenomenon that produced a lot of different medieval images," says Marian Bleeke, a professor of medieval art at ...

Per the statement, medieval artists may have been painting the Lombards as “cowardly and malicious” by depicting them as slimy snails. Alternative explanations for the knight versus snail ...

By the 1980s, he and a group of investors had taken his notion and expanded it into the U.S. under the Medieval Times banner, a sprawling bit of performance art that marries the spectacle of ...

The medieval chivalric knight was expected to be both a warrior ... and skilled in music, the hunt and the art of courtly flirting. Prowess remained, however, a knight's central quality.

And scattered through this marginalia is an oddly recurring scene: a brave knight in shining armor facing down a snail. It’s a great unsolved mystery of medieval manuscripts. As Got Medieval ...