Popular Medieval Memes Explained

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The hilarious explanations behind some of the popular medieval art memes you may have seen online without context.
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A lot of art from the Middle Ages is so bizarre, it seems… beyond explanation. Which is why it’s no surprise that these seemingly nonsensical images have become popular sources of memes in recent years. It’s hard not to look at some images and ask yourself… wait, what is going on here?
So, for this entry into the archive, I try to track down the real meaning behind some of these images that have circulated on the internet without context. But keep in mind that what I’ve found in my research is that for many illustrations… medieval art historians are just as confused as the rest of us.
With that said, let’s dive into the bizarre world of medieval memes.
0:00 Medieval Memes
0:46 Unfortunate Babies
1:55 Too Chill?
2:44 Strange Skeletons
3:47 Dangerous Rabbits
4:42 Unusual Self-Portraits
5:52 Miscellaneous Madness
6:59 Attacking Snails
8:03 Outro
Sources:
Old Medieval Babies - Hannah Keyser: www.mentalfloss.com/article/6...
Relaxed Faces - James L. Fredericks: www.commonwealmagazine.org/ar...
The Danse Macabre - Marie-Madeleine Renauld: www.thecollector.com/danse-ma...
Dangerous Rabbits - Colin Marshall: www.openculture.com/2019/03/k...
Joseph Ducreux’s Self-Portraits: publicdomainreview.org/collec...
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Fair Use Clip from Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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@Pilgrim98 2 жыл бұрын

"The farmers said there are too much snails eating their crop" "Shit what do they expect us to do? Send some knights, slay the beasts?" "Heheh, that's funny, i'm gonna make that into a meme"

@phoneguy4637 2 жыл бұрын

dude, you may have just solved it...

@gingivitis9148 2 жыл бұрын

Maybe it's what ca ment about class devision? Coz the knights were in-charge of most of the farmers at the time.

@pineconepinapple471 2 жыл бұрын

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@overlorddante 2 жыл бұрын

That’s what I thought as well. Humor derived from a severe over reaction, like how some joke about burning down their house just to kill a spider.

@yueshijoorya601 2 жыл бұрын

@@overlorddante Oh shit, future generations might actually think spiders of our time were so venomous that we had to burn down houses just to ensure their riddance.

@daretheclaw 2 жыл бұрын

200 years later when people try to decipher modern memes "Historians theorize Pepe the frog to be a symbol of despair and wrath during the early 21st century"

@MarlinMay 2 жыл бұрын

Seems legit.

@weareallbornmad410 2 жыл бұрын

Isn't it just that?

@ls200076 2 жыл бұрын

Well, it kinda is.

@tomasvrabec1845 2 жыл бұрын

I don't know what pepe the frog is now 😂 never even seen or heard of it until this comment section.

@user-jc8by2wj8g 2 жыл бұрын

@@tomasvrabec1845 how

@bw3839 2 жыл бұрын

I bet these monks had gardens. Snails and Rabbits are truly fearsome enemies when you are trying to save your tomatoes and beans.

@Rand0mPeon 2 жыл бұрын

It must certainly be hard to save tomatoes that hadn’t been discovered yet.

@BonaparteBardithion 2 жыл бұрын

@@Rand0mPeon Well, now I'm wondering what contemporary Mesoamerican art survived and if there are any memes in it.

@Smoke-bb6yg 2 жыл бұрын

@@Rand0mPeon there is some scriptures about tomatoes made by italians in the 16th century

@Rand0mPeon 2 жыл бұрын

@@Smoke-bb6yg Yes, but the 16th century is after the Americas were discovered. The snails drawings were during the medieval era.

@Smoke-bb6yg 2 жыл бұрын

@@Rand0mPeon ah yes my bad, i just checked it's the start of the renaissance

@phoneguy4637 2 жыл бұрын

the real mistery to me is, how today's peoples believe that medieval monks had no sense of humor. excuse me? they were basically the ancestors of today comic artists and meme writers. just look up on how they made fun of popes and kings. or their own brothers and scholars...

@Maatkara1000 2 жыл бұрын

Exactly!!!! Critics to the higher ranks of the church and politics were rampantly shown through the miniatures of the books that monks copied, decorated and kept

@jagmannenarbrand8373 2 жыл бұрын

And monks where one of the types that could get away with it the most out of anyone too. That and they were the most skilled artist the time before the renaissance started.

@hedgehog3180 2 жыл бұрын

@@jagmannenarbrand8373 Well I mean regular people also made fun of famous and high standing people and institutions in this period, it just hasn't really been preserved but we have scattered evidence of it. In general people just didn't really care about it. The monks just had more of an international shared culture so a monk from Germany might find a century old manuscript from France making fun of a pope in the margins and laugh at it because he agrees with it and in that way the jokes could spread.

@boxorak Жыл бұрын

If I had to guess? Probably the same reason Shakespeare is seen as highbrow in the modern day; Historical references being lost to time and pop culture interpretations of that era overtaking what little we know of what those times were actually like. ...though a very smug, shitty little part of me wants to point at events like the Spanish Inquisition and smarmily retort something along the lines of "no, they didn't" or "the ones that HAD a sense of humor learned to keep their heads down or got murdered by the ones who didn't."

@Arkylie Жыл бұрын

What I've heard is that a lot of the boys sent off to be monks were the younger brothers of large families -- the ones with no strong marriage prospects -- so they weren't exactly there by choice, and those whose temperament didn't suit the life they found themselves locked into managed to blow off a little steam by doodling naughty pictures in the margins and such. An interesting thought, and a reminder that people need to be free to pursue a life that is meaningful to them, not just shoved off into an "honorable" calling by parents who cared more about their older kids.

@sdhubbard 2 жыл бұрын

Maybe they're making fun of knights themselves as being so hyper-competitive they'll even fight snails, just by virtue of the fact they're armored.

@michaelwinter8583 2 жыл бұрын

You have it right in one word - virtue. The snails represented the knight's "member" and the joke was their fight against such! (The artists for manuscripts were often monks back then and they had their own battles with their snails.)

@dumoulin11 2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelwinter8583 I wonder if this is linked to the Roman usage of "oysters and snails" to represent genitalia? Is that where these Christian monks picked up this symbolism?

@joselunadamian7022 2 жыл бұрын

I saw a video of the legends and demons they used to believe in medieval times, and one of them was just a oversized snail, the snail itself represents death, how aging takes time and is slow but it comes to all, maybe tha's why they used a snail as a metaphor.

@alanhyt79 2 жыл бұрын

The snail is armoured, therefore it desires combat.

@michaelwinter8583 2 жыл бұрын

@@dumoulin11 Oysters and snails have long been considered aphrodisiacs - I would say that the monks were against their use.

@swedneck 2 жыл бұрын

One hypothesis about the snails that popped into my head is that maybe it's just them complaining about how snails eat all the plants, either because the monks writing books were themselves gardeners or because it was a common complaint from farmers which the writers found funny.

@wombataldebaran9686 2 жыл бұрын

I always thought they were meant to represent the French, and the medieval england monks were just mocking them

@st.michaelsknight6299 2 жыл бұрын

@@wombataldebaran9686 Close, Their mocking the lombards

@effigytormented 2 жыл бұрын

Well if we're going with that extension. It could be images of the local lord (who would recieve a tax of all produce from his serfs) who would be striking down the hated foe of his peasantry.

@st.michaelsknight6299 2 жыл бұрын

@@effigytormented No, that's actually what this is, they are shitting on Italians.

@RhizometricReality 2 жыл бұрын

I imagined knights laying in the armor which is hard to take off, under a tree or in grass and snails getting on it or in it. I wonder how much more prevalent snails used to be

@JulianDanzerHAL9001 2 жыл бұрын

Boomer Humor: "I hate my wife" Millenial Humor: "I hate my life" Gen Z Humor: goes back to medieval humor appearently

@marcdev8516 2 жыл бұрын

I'm sure we can dig up wife stories in the medieval times too. Usually sleeping with the devil,or dragons.

@JulianDanzerHAL9001 2 жыл бұрын

@@marcdev8516 well, at least we know stories about how terrible the new generation of young people are are about as old as humanity

@ilcondottierocartografo6770 2 жыл бұрын

I wish lmao

@ericstoverink6579 2 жыл бұрын

Where's Gen X?

@JulianDanzerHAL9001 2 жыл бұрын

@@ericstoverink6579 ded

@dracodracarys2339 2 жыл бұрын

400 years from now future historians will ponder the deeper significance of the two-legged horse running or the symbolic meaning of the nyan cat

@acat7798 2 жыл бұрын

What horse?

@stevem.o.1185 2 жыл бұрын

"they seemed bizarrely fixated on the manner a canine might hypothetically wear trousers"

@mmyr8ado.360 2 жыл бұрын

Not if we archive them really carefully

@nevisysbryd7450 2 жыл бұрын

@@acat7798 Furries.

@hwebsite4720 2 жыл бұрын

@@acat7798 this one kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oMpoZZRqs9CWo6M.html

@Titleknown 2 жыл бұрын

Fun fact: The Killer Rabbit in Monty Python may have been a deliberate reference to that art. Given how Terry Gilliam did browse those old medieval art books for illustrations to use for their animations, and the Pythons were actually deeply familiar on a scholarly level with Arthuriana! Not even kidding, I've heard some say that Monty Python and the Holy Grail is one of the most accurate King Arthur adaptations ever!

@JettMoonwing 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, I've heard this too, about the rabbit reference. I believe there's also an animation that was cut from the film that featured a giant snail! I've also heard it said that Holy Grail is one of the most accurate Arthurian tellings, but this one I'm dubious about... XD That being said, I am about half way through Volume 1 of Le Morte D'Arthur, and I have read maybe a couple of things that possibly inspired bits of the film... Haven't run into the Knights who say "Ni" yet, though...

@bib4eto656 2 жыл бұрын

Yup, I had a class on Arthurian legends. The Pythons weaved in a lot of good references that'd remain unrecognised by non-nerds 😁

@JettMoonwing 2 жыл бұрын

@@bib4eto656 Wow, a class on Arthurian legends? That's something I need in my life! :D

@bradleyhenderson1198 2 жыл бұрын

@@JettMoonwing No you don't. Buy some good books related to the subject, study them yourself, and you will have learned vastly more and spent vastly less.

@artizzy2k2k 2 жыл бұрын

The image of a knight begging for mercy from a snail is just hilarious

@winglessfairy564 2 жыл бұрын

As an artist, I understand medieval artists’ struggle with same-face syndrome lmao

@yves_23 2 жыл бұрын

I like the thought of two guys making random art of snails folding knights and laughing. "Geralt! I present you something to tickle your funniest bone!" "Arnold of Wessex, I can not wait to see this." *Snail eating a knight while the others look on in apathy* "My goodness, what an amusing art concept!"

@rogeriopenna9014 2 жыл бұрын

"How silly, knights fighting snails and other small animals... now let me go back to this RPG and this side quest where I must kill the rats infesting a warehouse, using my armor and sword"

@wispererflame7286 2 жыл бұрын

now i want to fight rabits and snailsanils for a change

@hedgehog3180 2 жыл бұрын

@@wispererflame7286 Dark Souls but all of the enemies are replaced with things knights fought in medieval manuscripts that look exactly like those drawings but kill you instantly.

@juanjoyaborja.3054 2 жыл бұрын

In many centuries, historians will try explaining our humour.

@teathesilkwing7616 2 жыл бұрын

“They seemed to worship a froglike humanoid they called paqe, drawing numerous depictions of them”

@yagopaliza8749 2 жыл бұрын

Imagine the future historians trying to explain shitposting

@benjaminthefox 2 жыл бұрын

I don't understand it NOW.

@dracodracarys2339 2 жыл бұрын

"What do the badgers, the mushroom and the snake represent? Was it an allegory of the ferocity of the badger, the toxicity of the mushroom and the untrustworthiness of the snake as representing the negativities that permeated the society of the 2000s?"

@sushiibird7799 2 жыл бұрын

"The old archives shows a link that when accessed, takes you to a video of a man named Rick Astley dancing in front of a mic while the drum beat plays"

@strayiggytv 2 жыл бұрын

Maybe the snail one had to do with the way snails shells are permanent fixtures and therefore they are always ' suited in armor and ready for battle ' ? Shit dude I dunno, snails are cool though.

@MehnixIsThatGuy 2 жыл бұрын

Either that or the monks that probably drew a bunch of these pictures got pissed at the snails eating all their plants in the monastery gardens and drew snails being attacked by knights as a way to vent.

@CaptStinkwater 2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking it may be more literal than that. like you see snails after it rains, making the battlefield slick and more dangerous?

@nunyabiznes33 2 жыл бұрын

0:29 I like that they even added lines to express surprise, as if it's a comics.

@ThrottleKitty 2 жыл бұрын

Babies as short pudgy bald men is my favorite medieval meme. It freaks me out, I love it.

@Groovebot3k 2 жыл бұрын

3:15 okay now that's actually an interesting dread horror concept when you give it some thought. Encountering a walking skeleton is naturally unsettling, despite the memery... but when the skeleton is your own rotting corpse harassing you for being a shit person, that's actually effective dread.

@gothnerd887 7 ай бұрын

Someone should make a horror game/movie bassed on that.

@Bierbernd 2 жыл бұрын

Imagine, people in medieval times had to fight 60 cm snails for their food, eventually they all went extinct

@Maatkara1000 2 жыл бұрын

Yep, I can confirm it, I was the spear

@MartaTarasiuk Жыл бұрын

Who went extinct? Snails or people?

@runajain5773 13 күн бұрын

@@MartaTarasiuk 'giant' snail

@theleanmonster3735 2 жыл бұрын

Artist 1: hey, lilliam, check out what I drew. Artist 2: lmoa wtf is that Artist 1: it’s a rabbit riding a dog fighting a snail Artist 2: *laughing* Artist 1: *laughing* Both: *laughing*

@asmodiusjones9563 2 жыл бұрын

No. No, this explanation makes no sense. I don’t think two humans engaged in tedious and painstaking work would do something to amuse themselves.

@jackkraken3888 2 жыл бұрын

[gets stabbed] "Ah, it's just a flesh wound"

@julietfischer5056 2 жыл бұрын

That's what you say when your limbs get lopped off.

@vicariousgamer2871 2 жыл бұрын

I've had worse.

@meridaskywalker7816 2 жыл бұрын

Tis' but a scratch

@kitsunekierein7253 2 жыл бұрын

"These snails look like they mean business..." 😂

@frankboogaard88 2 жыл бұрын

The snail thing is pretty easy to explain. What most people forget is that the word Knight derives from the Northern European word "Knecht" which used to mean indentured servant. Snails were a plague in the fields, so one of the tasks of early knights was to kill snails. When they became real knights, as we see them today, not enough time had passed to forget that, hence the "Knights versus Snails" thing ;)

@KougarManx468 2 жыл бұрын

3:21 l like how they aren't even scared , but rather seem to be disapointed .

@Fosterpython 2 жыл бұрын

There is also the theory that there was a tendency for monasteries to become infested with snails, and the drawings reflected the monks' wishes for a brave knight to come save them from a pest that was not dangerous, but probably annoying and damaging to their food supply.

@GKing-dy2qw 2 жыл бұрын

The three nobles and the three dead sounds like Scrooge meeting the 3 spirits in a Christmas tale… maybe just me thinking that

@louiewood7689 2 жыл бұрын

I noticed that as well tbh although it is kinda a basic concept that "you will be visited by spirits to change your ways"

@Kurtizss 2 жыл бұрын

Man, Medieval art was ahead of his time before wojak

@kyvilfongkot6372 2 жыл бұрын

It better then wojak

@Zeldafan1ify 2 жыл бұрын

I think art is always ahead of its time.

@GarryDKing 2 жыл бұрын

I heard one theory that the snails aren't really the joke, it's the people cowering at the snails who were. It's been hypothesized that the knights who're the snail's victims are from one infamously cowardly clan of nobles, who's knights tended to flee from battles. and the monks just drew up these snail jokes to poke fun at em.

@julietfischer5056 2 жыл бұрын

Sir Robin's relatives, then?

@denisenova7494 2 жыл бұрын

Yes: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bK-Dgq5evdraiac.html

@u.g.3298 2 жыл бұрын

Also, the snail may be some hyper intelligent immortal snail that escaped from a Tungsten sphere launched into space, but it somehow ended on medieval times and now it's seeking revenge.

@fduranthesee 2 жыл бұрын

Holy fucking shit.

@DanteYewToob 2 жыл бұрын

Another thing about these is that the often warped and messy quality is because a large portion of these drawings were absolutely tiny. They were just drawn in margins and as small illustrations in the corner of a page like a comic panel. So the lack of detail and weirdness is because we’re blowing up tiny images bigger than they would have ever been seen.

@nuralibolataev4474 2 жыл бұрын

I think that the drawings of knights fighting snails was meant as a inside joke in monasteries by monks. Many of them were the younger sons of nobles so they were sent to be monks whilst their elder brothers became knights.

@daffodil1017 Жыл бұрын

Lol, monk bros hating on their older siblings 😂

@Android-dg5ri 2 жыл бұрын

the snails represent the constant struggle of working in the field and fighting the pests glorifying the peasant worker as being comparable to a knight

@acatacho 2 жыл бұрын

6:28 all these years later i finally know where that dumb joke from one of the scary movies where the plant rolls the dude and smokes him comes from.

@YouTubeLate 2 жыл бұрын

That one jousting a snail. Literally “classic”.

@balonkita185 2 жыл бұрын

He turnedeth himself into a snail. Funniest shit I hath ever seen.

@steve1978ger 2 жыл бұрын

weren't the rabbits symbolic for lust, or more broadly, sinful people? and in a similar vein, the snail for the sin of sloth?

@yueshijoorya601 2 жыл бұрын

Maybe I am a rabbit.

@t.wcharles2171 2 жыл бұрын

Rabbits were servants of satan

@toomanymarys7355 2 жыл бұрын

@@t.wcharles2171 Hares were a symbol of the trinity, actually. They weren't at all linked to fertility or pagan anything in medieval times.

@t.wcharles2171 2 жыл бұрын

@@toomanymarys7355 later in the renaissance however they were seen as a sign of witchcraft

@caroline6218 2 жыл бұрын

2:12 King: "come on man, do you really have to stab me like that?"

@joshuabruce9599 2 жыл бұрын

I wonder if the snails are meant to represent the neverending struggles that medieval peasant farmers had when trying to stop snails eating their crops? What if knights are depicted as fighting them as they were perceived as a massive threat at the time. If the snails eat the crops, there is not food and no food means famine and starvation. They didn't have pesticides to deal with them back then (though I know that there are methods involving eggshells, salt, or Alcohol that can stop them from getting to the crops).

@casewhite-954 2 жыл бұрын

I dealt with snails infesting gardens before.I wouldnt call it a struggle.

@BonaparteBardithion 2 жыл бұрын

The only problem with this take is that there would be at least as much art of knights fighting grasshoppers/locusts. It might've been a factor in the memes popularity, but not the only source of it.

@Coyoteari Жыл бұрын

My favorite theory for the snails & rabbits is that the monks drawing these frequently kept medicinal gardens, so the little drawings were them complaining about pests

@BatCaveOz 2 жыл бұрын

Historian Lillian Randall suggested, in her book "The Snail in Gothic Marginal Warfare" that the snail was a symbol for the Lombards... an influential Italian family that became wealthy money lenders during the medieval period.

@awesomename2544 2 жыл бұрын

I saw a video about the knights and snails in medieval art saying they usually appeared in the margins of books as sort of embellishments and doodles, so my theory is that they are one of the first memes, spread through writers reading others’ works, thinking its funny, then doing their own version in their own writing.

@garryjordanius5914 2 жыл бұрын

" taking their chillness a little too far " 😂😂😂😂😂

@chrisgaming9567 2 жыл бұрын

Perhaps medieval people thought Ammonite shells were the shells of gigantic snails

@donovanberserk4993 2 жыл бұрын

Praise the Helix Fossil

@heskrthmatt 2 жыл бұрын

4:06 That’s the way rabbits used to be. We’ve just forgotten.

@hellboy7424 2 жыл бұрын

Laziness: That's what snails symbolize. It's because of the popular medieval sayings. In many European countries they have been lost, but they are still common in countries like Spain and Italy. Laziness is a cardinal sin and the copyists were monks. "Lazy like a snail", "Slimy (non pure) like a snail" ... A reminder to fight laziness.

@totallynotana 2 жыл бұрын

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@totallynotana 2 жыл бұрын

Also, remember me when you're famous curious archive

@arturonotari8235 2 жыл бұрын

That's right

@buffaloking2788 2 жыл бұрын

It’s growing though, I remember when they had 69 subs a few weeks ago, now they have 69 K subs

@hannahh.8422 2 жыл бұрын

They’re actually doing really well considering how new the channel is.

@yahnservices1978 2 жыл бұрын

I called the cops, that criminal channel won't get away.

@HlootooThunderhammer 2 жыл бұрын

I LOVE the drolleries (the bizarre rabbit/snail/knight art)! If they are indeed just supposed to be funny, it goes to show how humans never changed. If I had to handwrite an entire book myself, I'd start doodling in the margins too. Heck I already do.

@beastvg123 2 жыл бұрын

According to my friend, who is a savant with a degree in the Classics, the snails and rabbits were meant to poke fun at political figures, like Knights and Lords. The idea being that nobles were so cowardly, rabbits could stew them along with their hunting dogs, and knights were so lazy, snails were a match for them.

@pastel7327 2 жыл бұрын

The one with the snails i can remember a few years back someone explained to me that they way back had snail problems and they have eaten a lot of their crops and needed to constantly fight against them. So they just painted warriors fighting snails as a vent i guess of their frustration

@FantasyAddict95 2 жыл бұрын

I like the theory that the monks drew snails and knights fighting because they just hated snails munching on their gardens, and it seemed like they were impossible to get rid of.

@DjurrenArt 2 жыл бұрын

4:42 "Instruct me how to Douglas"

@dianeridley9804 2 жыл бұрын

5:40 I've always wondered about that painting. So, it is real

@booshter9714 2 жыл бұрын

1:25 I love how the baby is just straight up Vladimir Putin 🤣

@pedropedrohan102 2 жыл бұрын

maybe Vladimir Putin is Jesus?

@scooby-doovillain 2 жыл бұрын

“Jesus was a homunculus” WAS NOT THE TAKE I EXPECTED IN THE SLIGHTEST BUT ABSOLUTELY THE INSPIRATION I NEED FOR CERTAIN THINGS

@felipecosta-kv2fx 2 жыл бұрын

That's the same as saying god was an allien

@scooby-doovillain 2 жыл бұрын

@@felipecosta-kv2fx DONT GIVE ME IDEAS DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW GULLIBLE I AM

@felipecosta-kv2fx 2 жыл бұрын

@@scooby-doovillain no

@hasanmuttaqin464 2 жыл бұрын

@@felipecosta-kv2fx in a mean of logic, yes, god is indeed an alien

@RogueT-Rex8468 2 жыл бұрын

@@felipecosta-kv2fx and Allien? So- Raptor Jesus confirmed?

@PakBallandSami 2 жыл бұрын

the skeleton in the right is looking in to my soul 3:46

@senorsenpai1338 2 жыл бұрын

6:22 guy 1: He turned himself into a pickle, funniest shit I've ever seen.

@johndowe7003 2 жыл бұрын

I'm pickle Rick!

@ChuckNorrizHIM 2 жыл бұрын

You have to be quicker than your opponent, healthier, and stronger. All simple things which a knight or squire would likely die from battle for if lacking any. So yes the snail is likely a symbol to express everything opposing a noble knight’s symbol/way of life. EDIT: It just happens to be funny to us now because snails aren’t really a “threat” to our symbols or crop yield

@CanalTremocos 2 жыл бұрын

I agree that the snail likely is a metaphorical anti-knight but that doesn't have to mean it wasn't humorous. It's like today the Joker bonking Batman with a ridiculous prop.

@LeglessWonder 2 жыл бұрын

500 years historians will be like “we think the ancients worshiped Doge as as deity”

@avantelvsitania3359 2 жыл бұрын

6:42 - well, it's not a baby, but actually Pope Leo X. Which probably makes it even funnier.

@tinytealeaves 2 жыл бұрын

I imagine snails were an unstoppable annoyance in the best of times, and passed enough that to a garden to starve your family, in the worst of times. They probably seemed like an invading force one would never fully defeat, and could never demoralize. They just wanna munch.

@DMXIII 2 жыл бұрын

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@CrimsonBlot 2 жыл бұрын

I always thought that the reason why medieval faces looked like that was because artists didn't know how to draw that good yet.

@Jim-Mc 2 жыл бұрын

The Greeks and Romans were even earlier but they did some photo-realistic stuff. Check out the Fayum portraits.

@horse14t 2 жыл бұрын

I imagine many of those weird, out of place, "alien-like" cave paintings, statues and drawings were also just humourous fun much like some of these medieval paintings. Or maybe even just remnants of kids learning how to paint and sculpt or just from people with much less practice or with wild imaginations.

@makaronprod7094 2 жыл бұрын

6:22 and then, he turns himself into a pickle, funniest shit i ever seen

@kezmsfilms1300 2 жыл бұрын

I always thought the snails where just Monks getting board and so deciding to doodle or have a little fun while writing the books. But while watching this, I had a thought. Like what if there was a serious issue with snails and other bugs eating the books and such in libraries (I know first hand how annoying it can be when the snails get to your books), so what if its more the Monks showing thir frustration at the pests eat their works by just doodling them in combat, and enamy of a knight, much like the snails are teh enamies of the book keepers. I don't know, just a thought.

@leagueskinmusic1426 2 жыл бұрын

Great videos, as always. Thank you for your fascinating videos and subjects.

@CuriousArchive 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@ajithsidhu7183 2 жыл бұрын

@@CuriousArchive please do one on warfare

@chieckenman4432 2 жыл бұрын

This channel is an underrated hidden gem

@franciscodetonne4797 2 жыл бұрын

This is the kind of content I subbed for. Memes from the olden days. Ancient civilization memes next?

@scheibez 2 жыл бұрын

this /sorta/ relates to the ‘too chill?’ section, but a lot of greek (specifically) artists drew dying soldiers/royalty in neutral expressions to highlight the beauty the human being is graced with. the ancient greek were obsessed with the concept of beauty & perfection, which meant their frescoes & portraits had to depict people (even dying soldiers) as ‘graceful’, never to be caught off-guard, as that’s assumed to create an unappetising feeling when the paintings are looked at. literally just learnt that in my high school history class yesterday, the more you know!

@meridaskywalker7816 2 жыл бұрын

Basically ars bene moriendi

@gamergrill4933 2 жыл бұрын

I also love the famous proportions, for example man beeing bigger then castle walls but still using ladders for a siege and other disproportions

@cameronscottnolan 2 жыл бұрын

Dude must have a stockpile of impressive videos. Each video is so well made that it must've taken weeks to produce each one.

@curiodyssey3867 2 жыл бұрын

For real

@CuriousArchive 2 жыл бұрын

Haha it takes a while for some videos, but I didn't start production on this one until earlier this week

@cameronscottnolan 2 жыл бұрын

@@CuriousArchive wow! Your content is amazing. Interesting subject matter and quality information, editing and narration. You will soon be a large channel, I have no doubt in my mind. Thanks for the amazing videos!

@CuriousArchive 2 жыл бұрын

@@cameronscottnolan Thanks!

@xavierdrakhen 2 жыл бұрын

Usually middle age art related sins with certain animals. Perhaps fighting the snail represents fighting sloth.

@molybdaen11 2 жыл бұрын

The most boring (and probably true) orgin.

@molybdaen11 2 жыл бұрын

Then the rabbits represents they desire to duck?

@xavierdrakhen 2 жыл бұрын

As boring as it is rabbits most likely represent lust . well that last thing is not that boring though 😆😆

@molybdaen11 2 жыл бұрын

@@xavierdrakhen You know, I was hoping for a forgotten sport where they trained rabbits to ride on giant snails for entertainment.

@ree572 2 жыл бұрын

No one: Gary: "Meow"

@beaterbikechannel2538 2 жыл бұрын

0:04 the Irish woman turning away, "you dont impress me with your lacoste sleeping bag"

@frankiefrankie1120 2 жыл бұрын

*When you don’t get the joke so you spend 4 weeks researching it for “science”*

@fajaradi1223 2 жыл бұрын

"Research for science"

@sagacious03 2 жыл бұрын

Neat analysis! Thanks for uploading!

@erichtomanek4739 2 жыл бұрын

The thumbnail image: I thought a big cocoon would give a big butterfly.....

@cannibalrj7747 2 жыл бұрын

Medieval knights fighting against snails are basically just memes. can't change my mind

@Maatkara1000 2 жыл бұрын

Because they truly are

@cannibalrj7747 2 жыл бұрын

@@Maatkara1000 that's what i just said

@KentuckyFriedChildren 2 жыл бұрын

Conclusion: Medieval Monks had a Monty-Python level if absurdist humor Also why does 1:10 look like Jeremy Clarkson

@laurelsilberman5705 2 жыл бұрын

Another amazing video😂Your videos are SO GOOD, man🤣👍🏽🔥❤️

@Sniperzillabot 2 жыл бұрын

This channel is so interesting! I hope one day U reach a Million subs!

@bordercitizen1525 2 жыл бұрын

Wise dude, please continue delivering such a good content.

@Ornzora 2 жыл бұрын

The fact Memes are actually one of the way to show our feelings and expressing what we are thinking about something, yes it's maybe just a meme

@rainbowrotcod 2 жыл бұрын

well researched and welcoming. Loved the video

@jacobzaranyika9334 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you 🙏 for your support Curious Archive

@milomateer6565 2 жыл бұрын

Just found your channel a week ago. It’s gonna blow up bro.

@skyllalafey 2 жыл бұрын

Okay, you covered the 'knights vs snails' marginalia, but didn't mention the butt trumpets, so I can only give this an 8 out of 10. ;)

@echodelta9 2 жыл бұрын

Sackbuts.

@YaoiHoshi 2 жыл бұрын

...I’m debating whether I should google that or not.

@skyllalafey 2 жыл бұрын

@@YaoiHoshi I'd say it's not safe for work, but so cartoon-y and ridiculous as to not traumatize you.

@mitab1 2 жыл бұрын

4:21 this image is comedy gold 🤣🤣🤣

@SaItogaming202 Жыл бұрын

i would like to believe that the snails were the first shitpost trend

@rainer6736 2 жыл бұрын

i think the baby on pic. 3 at 0:51 looks pretty legit.

@thenightking7167 2 жыл бұрын

Perhaps the snails were portrayed in a much more literal sense than some modern scholars are postulating : That of a formidable agricultural enemy. In the absence of modern pesticide application, snails were agricultural parasites that caused devastating irreversible crop destruction. In this light, the depicted knights' dire desire to concur this agricultural beast is very logical.

@sophiaperez1090 2 жыл бұрын

The snail meme is eternal.

@lizpantelis 2 жыл бұрын

I think anyone confused about epic battles with snails has never had a garden or farm.

@cc227able 24 күн бұрын

I had thought the snail thing was because snails eat paper and vellum and thus the monks were constantly at war with the snails to stop them eating the manuscripts. I guess it isn't as well known today, but getting snails in your letterbox eating your letters is a major issue that still happens.