Was there some sort of war against snails in medieval times?

It was just a big scribe in-joke. Snails were a book's/scribe's worst enemy because they would eat paper

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>>1539842
they are too slow

>>1539855
GET OVER HERE

>>1539848
So they were early memes?

>>1539871

A meme is any idea that can be held in the mind and communicated on, like how to make fire for example. All human knowledge is composed of memes.

>>1539842

The Snail War in Scotland and also Northern England 1387-1392.

>>1539848
is this true??

>>1539848
That's one theory, and my favourite one and probably the most likely but there are others, some people think they are slagging armoured knights and some people think it's just a general meme that got out of hand.

No clue about the rabbit one though.

>>1539848

... Medieval scribes didnt use paper.

>he doesn't know about the species of hybrid man-snails that were created as a side-effect of the failed genetical experiments conducted on Finnish prisoners by the Neuro-Shamans of the Hwan empire

>>1539885
You know im referring to memes in a specific way, smartass.

>>1539932
Did they only use vellum?

>>1539958

Actually I get frustrated to people, like your good self, who refer to memes in a completely non-specific way to refer to whatever they want.

Probably some sort phonetic cabala

Was snailposting an early form of shitposting?

>>1539975
>memes are serious!!

meme post

>>1539975
>he thinks language can't change over time with new definitions for words

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being a scribe is boring work

>>1539848
>because they would eat paper
more that they would eat cabbage and other things in the gardens, and the Monastery would have extensive gardens usually.

>>1539842

>Its a meme you dip!

literally

>>1539987
not the earliest

http://www.pompeiana.org/Resources/Ancient/Graffiti%20from%20Pompeii.htm

I.2.20 (Bar/Brothel of Innulus and Papilio); 3932: Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men’s behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity!

II.2.3 (Bar of Athictus; right of the door); 8442: I screwed the barmaid

VI.14.20 (House of Orpheus); 4523: I have buggered men

VII.9 (Eumachia Building, via della Abbondanza); 2048: Secundus likes to screw boys.

VIII.2 (in the basilica); 1864: Samius to Cornelius: go hang yourself!

>>1539992

Of course I don't but this, ahem, meme of just randomly dropping 'meme' into sentences with absolutely no meaning whatsoever that has developed on 4chan is just silly and non-communicative.

>>1539855

>The work of one who consorts with beasts!

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>>1540057
and sinners and tax collectors

>>1539842
>>1540017
But really this whole snail thing was just an edgy autistic spook meme.

>>1539975
Memes as they're thought of on 4chan:
>esoteric in-joke
>a trend where love/ubiquity of the item becomes more important than the item itself (bacon)
>common conception with no basis/is easily disproven by reality (German engineering is superior)

>>1539918
One of the humans is in plate armour, and plate armour didn't make them slow

>>1539842
>Aaron Kosminski.
Kangaroo snails to be exact.

>>1540064
anyone got a book of manuscript art?

It's great stuff and I'd love to learn about it

It could be about the slaying of sloth. Staying active and what not. I can't imagine copying books for days is very fun.

>>1539975
The word "in-joke" in the post i replied to pretty much gave away the exact meaning of the word: an image or idea that gets repeated as a joke, which is only understood by people who have come across it before.

>>1540013
I love how they translate as poshy as possible

> i fucked the barmaid
> im gay
> Secundus likes boipucci
> Cornelius fuck yourself, t. Samius

St. Thomas, I'm SNAIL.

>>1540017
It's not non-communicative at all. Everyone on this website who read his post understood exactly what he meant by meme in this context. Even you understood it, you just happened to also sperg out about the fact that language evolves.

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>>1540669

>>1539842
it's a methaphor for a guy hiding in his castle or donjon

>>1540798
>dat image
"Damnit, how does he keep blocking my baby-clubs with his sword!?"

>>1540838
LOOK AT THAT ESCARGOT

>>1540669
If I take that shell off will you die?

>>1539918
Rabbits are very common animals, and the bane of gardeners, and monks generally had a garden I'm the monastery, so I'd bet they were talked about a fair bit.

Just an idea, though. One of my co-workers is always going on about her wabbit problem.

>>1540956
It would be extremely painful

>>1539842

they got their ink from snails

>>1540002
>There must be more to life

>>1539855
*Usheathes claymore*

>Eeeee, what's up doc?

>>1540956
it would be extremely snail-ful

>>1541016 >>1541006 >>1540795
DELET THIS

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bumping out of interest

>>1540152
bestiary.ca deals with animals

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>>1541006
>>1541012
>>1541016

>medieval pepe and wojak

>>1540798
FALUSSES OUT FOR HARAMBERIC

>>1540710
But there's a castle in the background.

>>1539842
Snails in Europe can get to be enormous. Even in modern times, you can still occasionally find snails as large as a baseball, and they are devastating to crops.

I would assume this was a sort of comic exaggeration of how peasants felt when they discovered a big fucking snail munching on their garden.

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>There are also numerous images often found in the margins of illuminated manuscripts that may seem rather bizarre to modern viewers. These are called marginalia and have been likened to “doodling” on the edge of a page. Some examples of odd marginalia include: knights battling snails, an army of foxes besieging a city of monkeys, and penis trees.

>Additionally, these manuscripts contain a surprising number of images relating to flatulence and defecation. Finally, some manuscripts contain scribbles by the copying scribe, as well as complaints about their job. These include “Thank God, it will soon be dark.” and “New parchment, bad ink; I say nothing more.”

It fills my heart with joy knowing that shitposting has been practiced for thousands of years.

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>>1540798

>>1541493
Yes, it represent the guy being cowardly and hiding

>>1541016
*knock knock*
"Brother Simon, so sorry to bother you, I-"

>>1543125
But the snail isn't even hiding in its shell.

>>1541800
>>1540013
IIRC Roman politics was basically non-stop shitposting - historians are skeptical about the "secret lives" of the Julio-Claudians simply because accusing your political rivals of fucking their sisters and other relatives was pretty common with senators

>>1543165
doesn't matter, he's still a snail

>>1540987
>the bane of gardeners

Bane?

>>1543195

Yeah, rabbits are a pretty big nuisance

>>1540002
... does that text read "anus vaginus" ???

the more i look at it the harder it is to read

>>1543296
*anus vaginis i mean

>>1539842
that pic depicts the hatred of people towards snails for ruining their crops

think about how hard must have been to grow crops back then, having to do everything by hand and with no way of defending against bugs

>>1539842
it was just a running joke they had then to pass the time.

>>1540821
>>1541481
You're not funny.

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>>1543300

>>1540800
king: dude come on! that isn't funny!
murderer: i wonder what my wife made for dinner

>>1543308
since it was a recurring thing I doubt they hated it, more like it was just another daily burden, maybe as kids they were routinely sent out snail hunting

>>1543300
>the had that wrote it is no more
damn

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>>1543195

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>>1540798
>sorry buddy I can't help you here

>>1543685
>*record scratch*
>*freeze frame*
>so you're probably wondering how I ended up in this mess...

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>>1543685

>>1541157
kek

>>1543868
Kek

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>>1539975
>like your good self
How big is your fedora?

>>1540091
Meme by definition:
>Not that

>>1539848
That's a cute theory but I think it's just because snails have armor like men.

A snail's shell is structurally really similar to a great helm.

>>1540002
oh my god

he has anime shock lines

>>1540795
Is this ancient?

Seems Roman-era

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>>1540798
This seems wacky because we're used to more realistic depictions of violence, but I expect that images like this were fucking horrifying to medieval readers.

That's a lot of decapitated babies.

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>>1540798

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Medieval art was pretty wacky in general.

>>1540013
>go hang yourself

an early form of kys, fascinating

>>1545580
>N-NANI!?

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>>1546291
What a terrible mother.

>>1546328
>frogposters
Alternatively
>ouiaboos

>>1546291
>"And that's how babies are made"

>>1541006
>>1541012
>>1541016

What's up with the fantasization of rabbits killing men?

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>>1546406
You never heard of the great rabbit calamity of 1183?

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>>1546328

She hard at work forging a new generation of children.

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>>1546424
I see this thread is going to the dogs

>>1540798
I take it this is the Massacre of the Innocents and >>1546436 is Jael killing Sisera?

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>>1546414

Rabbits used to kill people all the time back in the olden days.

>>1539963
Paper as we think of was known about in learned circles, but uncommon. Linen or hemp cloth was also used, it was avaiable in addition to vellum (which would be used for anything important). Paper mills started first started to pop up in the 12th century, but didn't start to become widespread until the 15th century.

>>1543296
>>1543297
I think it says "unius virginus" = the [as in one and only, original] virgin, basically. That's Mary.

Medieval Latin was somewhat variable depending on where it was being written, and scribes used a lot of shortcuts and reductions where possible, as the reader would understand what they mean. Orthography was based on what was easiest to write with a sharpened goose feather, so letters may not always conform to what we recognize today.

>>1539975
Have you ever met a real person other than your mom?

Do you know what a vagina looks like?

>>1546291
>>1546397
Ah, yes. The babysmith.

>>1546616
Can't tell if you're serious. How do you die to a rabbit?

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Monkeys though, they only murder each other.

In the butt.