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 ...

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 ...

Swarthout’s expertise. Swarthout is the researcher behind the popular art history-inspired social media account Weird Medieval Guys, which has attracted nearly 700,000 followers on X ...

The image of a medieval knight moving slowly and stiffly under ... is firmly fixed in people’s imagination. But, according to art historian Matthias Goll, much of this vision is a myth.