We all know medieval marginalia is full of some pretty sick snail fights. No one knows why, exactly, but there are hundreds of old drawings of snails in combat with knights in old manuscripts. The ...

The marginalia of illuminated manuscripts is weird. When monks weren’t complaining about their jobs as they hand-copied line after line, they were inserting fart jokes into the margins. But one ...

I recently bought a history of 19th-century France from a reputable second-hand books site, where its condition was described as “very good”. When it arrived, I was dismayed to find it scrawled all ...

Knights fighting snails, murderous rabbits, mischievous monkeys. The images in medieval margins range from the playful to the bizarre. With Dr Alixe Bovey. Show more Walking fish, knights fighting ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Marginalia Hero Marginalia hero — it is an arcade game with RPG elements in medieval marginalia setting ( strange and weird drawings from illuminated ...