In the most expensive, most sacred books in medieval Europe, someone painted a knight losing a fight to a snail. This is that story.
In This Episode
- 1:05 — What Is Marginalia
- 3:56 — Who Made It and Why
- 5:47 — The Bestiary Connection
- 7:13 — Cynocephali
- 9:07 — The Great Motifs
- 12:16 — What It Tells Us
Find the Easter Eggs
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Further Reading
- Studium Historiae on Cynocephali
- Open Culture — Why Knights Fought Snails
- Vox Almanac — Knight and Snail
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