LopensLeftArm@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoTIL that a bunch of medieval manuscripts featured illustrations of knights fighting giant snails, and no one knows whywww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square79fedilinkarrow-up1499arrow-down114cross-posted to: todayilearned@lemmit.online
arrow-up1485arrow-down1external-linkTIL that a bunch of medieval manuscripts featured illustrations of knights fighting giant snails, and no one knows whywww.bbc.comLopensLeftArm@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square79fedilinkcross-posted to: todayilearned@lemmit.online
minus-squareTaleya@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up108arrow-down1·11 months agoMonks did most of the writing and artwork. Monks main diet was brassicas. They grew their own food. Do the math, it’s wish fulfillment
minus-squareJungleJim@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·11 months agoI think you’re really on to something here, if you don’t work in history or something, you should run this by a historian or scholar and see what they think
minus-squareweariedfae@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·11 months agoThis makes so much sense, is there any evidence? I don’t want to spread the rumor as a fun fact unless there’s something behind it. Very fun idea!
minus-squareStar@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·edit-211 months agoRemoved by mod
minus-squarenilloc@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·11 months agoThat’s my guess too. Snail plague there heart to be evidence of it somewhere. Also when did escargot become popular?
minus-squareEheran@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoBrassica, it is ALWAY brassica.
Monks did most of the writing and artwork.
Monks main diet was brassicas.
They grew their own food.
Do the math, it’s wish fulfillment
I think you’re really on to something here, if you don’t work in history or something, you should run this by a historian or scholar and see what they think
This makes so much sense, is there any evidence? I don’t want to spread the rumor as a fun fact unless there’s something behind it. Very fun idea!
Removed by mod
That’s my guess too. Snail plague there heart to be evidence of it somewhere. Also when did escargot become popular?
Brassica, it is ALWAY brassica.
Always