Sharpen your swords and your wits—it’s time to travel back to the Dark Ages, where hygiene was questionable, medical advice involved leeches, and memes were etched into stone tablets (probably). This ...
Medieval imagery wasn’t meant to be funny when it was made hundreds of years ago, but all over Instagram it has been remixed, captioned, and somehow reads as peak hilarious — depending on your sense ...
Medieval poet Geoffrey Chaucer twice made references to an early work featuring a Germanic mythological character named Wade. Only three lines survive, discovered buried in a sermon by a late 19th ...
Born to jest, but stuck jousting with the daily grind of a soul-sucking 9-to-5 and the occasional existential crisis? Same. Luckily, history professor Medievalist Matt is here to ease your pain—with ...
The intricately crafted ornament, which depicts a knight emerging out of a snail shell perched atop of a goat, measures less than an inch long. West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service via the ...
They may not have had the internet, but medieval people still liked to share a joke – as the discovery of what archaeologists are dubbing a historic “meme” found in northern England suggests. A ...
A “snail man” mount which may have been “a form of medieval meme” has been discovered. The object was found in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, in 2020. Thought to date from AD 1200 to 1350, the mount ...
Learn how a new reading of an 800-year-old medieval sermon has revealed fresh insights into the famous English poem 'Song of Wade.' One of the most famous and elusive literary mysteries in English ...
They may not have had the internet, but medieval people still liked to share a joke – as the discovery of what archaeologists are dubbing a historic “meme” found in northern England suggests. A ...
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