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 ...

If medieval art rendered man some what smaller than life ... Gaston, for his part, displayed the gallantry expected of a noble knight to the very end, giving his life in 1391 to rescue one ...

"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 ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Many fight books ... like the depictions on television or even in medieval literature. In theory, knights were bound by the code of chivalry – a set ...

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 ...