Magnet: Do Not Obey in Advance. Teamwork Over Tyranny!

A snail on a curly design attacks a Medieval knight in chainmail who is brandishing a sword and holding a large shield.

Fridge Magnet
3" x 3"
76 mm × 76 mm

SNAILS BATTLING KNIGHTS IS AN EARLY 14TH CENTURY MEME

As anyone who is familiar with 13th and 14th century illuminated manuscripts can attest, images of armed knights fighting snails are common, especially in marginalia. But the ubiquity of these depictions doesn’t make them any less strange...

A marginal illustration from the Gorleston Psalter, showing a knight in combat with a snail.

Knight v Snail II: Battle in the Margins (from the Gorleston Psalter, England (Suffolk), 1310-1324, Add MS 49622, f. 193v.