What's the deal with the snails?

>>1831035
what a shitty fight

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also, what the fuck was wrong with medieval people?

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Was it a meme?

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what'd he do?

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What's the deal with the murderous rabbits?

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jesus fucking christ

>>1831030

>These paintings were typically made by monks

>Monks spent a lot of time dealing with parchment

>Snails eat parchment

>Monks therefore hate snails

There you go. There was nothing that a monk would loathe more than a snail

>>1831134
what about the rabbits?

>>1831108

>you came to the wrong neighborhood

>MOTHERFUCKER

>>1831153

Have you never watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail?

Rabbits c. 1000 AD were a much nastier bunch.

>>1831159
what's their fucking problem

>>1831163
Oh, right. It makes sense now.

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>>1831030
we just don't know

>>1831199

little medieval manbaby be like

ay why u about to dash my brains out agains the rocks what I ever do to you I ain't even mad

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>>1831206

It's an ancient meme.

>>1831232
The Sumerians weren't semetic tho

Were the medieval times really as fun as these sketches make it seem?

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>tfw bae finds your rare snails

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Don't talk to me or my son ever again

>>1831030
Snails and rabbits ate their gardens.

>>1831030
They are a personification of the French.

>>1831069
The earliest meme in history

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>>1831298
too cute for me.

relevant
http://www.jstor.org/stable/2852357

>>1831360
Dayum, any for rabbits?

>>1831298
Kek'd

The irony of 4chan being confused on weirdly themed out of context imagery.

>>1831376
None that I know of but check this book out. There's a copy available in Google Books.

"Image on the Edge: The Margins of Medieval Art" by Michael Camille

>>1831392
Shut up, you support the rabbits and the snails don't you.

>>1831082
Looks like its got a kangaroo head.

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>>1831392
t. Giant snail

>>1831100
>Clearly an Esquilax

>>1831247
>Wears a tabard with a picture of himself on it

Gets me every time

Honestly seen this thread like 10 times over the years and it never gets old. I'm literally crying

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>>1831030
They're fucking savage

>>1831134
>>1831153
I heard it was because monks would often grow their own food and so saw rabbits and snails as threats.

>>1831030
Where are you getting all these images?

>>1832094
1347

>>1832074
>rabbit eats your salad
>draw rabbits beheading and skinning people alive

Why were monks so dramatic?

>>1832102

learning from thousands of years of Jewish whining is a hell of a drug

>>1831030
Snails often represent sin as in sloth and leeching off things other people produce

A literal meme

>>1832102

>Why were monks so dramatic?

Monks probably had pretty boring lives.

>>1831100
BECAUSE FRITH WILLS IT!
http://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1476626770952.webm

>Haven't had a full nights sleep since you were 12 and joined the monestary
>haven't eaten red meat in years
>spend all day copying bibles in a poorly lit cold slightly damp room for 7 years
>prior is a tight ass, so no talking or laughing.
>turn the page on the original and find a farting snail meme in the margin.
>It's literally the funniest thing you have ever seen.

>>1831298
This one is about the dragon-elephant mega war that the medieval scholars believed was happening in Índia.

Medieval Europe was a home for giant snails, but feudal lords killed them all for their precious slime.

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>>1831330
Actually, there exist even more ancient memes.

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Bored monks were a miracle of the universe.

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>>1832596
>>1832597
Monks were really 4chan of their times.

>bored people with nothing to do
>creating memes that no one understands
>lewd and weird fetishes like femdom and cuckoldry

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>>1832600
>dragon porn

>>1832600
I read book about medieval monks misogyny and their quotes and proverbs read like /r9k/ threads.

>>1831030
Mudslimes.

>>1832609
Do you have a title?

>>1831157
>you came to the wrong forest

>HUMAN

>>1831046
You get cloistered in with a shit load of smelly bald dudes in a monastery and try not to get bored.

>>1832609
Do you have links to that? I'd like to have a laugh

>>1832606
He looks like he's not surprised, that it isn't first time its happened.

>>1831066
Snail goats tounged my anus

>>1832620
It was chapter from Jean Delumeau, Fear of the west, IIRC.

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¯\_(ツ)_/¯

>>1832653
Will look into that, thanks.

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>>1832655
>tfw that's probably Hector's son

ITT: Dank ancient memes

>>1832609
Wife of Bath by Chaucer

>>1831030
I subscribe to the ancient running joke idea. I like picturing some rough looking knight busting a gut seeing this on a scroll or something.

>>1833346
see >>1832497

>>1832026
Kekked

>>1832606
>dragon cuckold porn

>>1832026
lmao

>old monk's scriptures are full of seemingly weird imagery and symbolism I can't comprehend therefore it must correspond with my retarded millennial concept of "dank and ironic internet memes"
wtf I hate /his/ now

>>1832497
shit

>>1833611
nice meme

>>1833611
>implying people weren't just as retarded back then and didn't invent dank memes

>>1833611
>I can't find humor in things bc autismo9000 self and you shouldn't either

http://oglaf.com/sexmanual/

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>>1833611

>>1833982
this is gold

>>1833982
>Gaius Pumidius Dipilus was here on October 3rd 78 BC
>October 3rd 78 BC
FUCKING TIME TRAVELERS!

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>>1834364

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>>1834367

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>>1834370

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>>1834370
I feel bad for those lads.

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Will future shitposters wonder about the great Elephant and Donkey Wars that spread like wildfire across the US landscape?

>>1831066
What the fuck is this supposed to depict.

>>1831069

We should keep this meme alive in modern days.

>>1831206

I thought it was a guy using a naked smaller guy as a weapon.

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Don't forget the Japanese fart scrolls.

>>1832606
"Hey Brian. What's up. Oh, ffs, don't be so melodramatic...

>>1832606

Supreme kek.

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>>1834465
>Asian studies, East-Asia focus
>Parents always bring up this weird shit with me
>Especially in public
>Fart scrolls, Dream of a Fishermen's wife, Ama fetishism, even bukkake once
>They talk like its mainstream Asian culture
>Can't say anything because it will seem like I'm defending kinky jap porn

>>1834537
I love how disinterested he is, like the sadistic thrill of murder and dismemberment just doesn't do it for him anymore.

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>>1832026
From the same manuscript.

>>1834373
I have two folders for monk drawings, one with snails and one with rabbits

I did not anticipate them having to have this overlap.

This is the best thread on /his/ right now.

>>1834370
I feel the same way about these monks with my work

>Thank God, it will soon be dark

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>>1832584
Have this. Had to reduce size and quality by a shitton to make it fit, but it's still legible.

>>1832551
what? Please tell me that there is more info on that

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>>1831030
Symbol for idk what, or it could be a story about little people. Lilliputians or whatever.

>>1832073
looks like wow engine

>>1831035
>ye_olde_fetlife_listing.jpg

>>1834537
Wojak?

>>1831082

Snails (and rabbits) probably ate the fuck out of medieval gardens, I know those bastards eat my tomatoes and start shitting all over them when it rains.

is this an ancient meme thread?

>>1831247
tapestry related: me and my wench

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It was the Pepe of medievil times.

>>1831360
lel none of the wiki warriors here paid attention.

>>1838948
>>1831360
Officially repudiated, although actually encouraged to practice their profession, the Lombards were deprecated a priori as foreigners.60 They did not hold full rights of citizenship, including the right to bear arms, a restriction which may have abetted the notion of their military ineffectuality so widely propagated in the literary sources already mentioned. From the assembled evidence the three questions regarding the origin of the marginal illustration can now be answered as follows: the predilection for the literary snail combat theme can be explained by the manifest current anti-Lombard sentiment; the rapid diffusion of the motif reflects the international character of the Lombards' professional activities; and finally, the concentration of the motif in late thirteenth- and early fourteenthcentury manuscripts mirrors the intense reaction to a current development which gradually lost its appeal along with its novelty. What better means for expressing popular opinion than by an amusing drawing in the margin of a manuscript which could be interpreted at will as a general representation of cowardice or as a specific allusion to Lombards, in some cases serving perhaps as a reminder of an object pawned or to be redeemed by the original owner of the manuscript
/thread

>>1838250
i can solve your problem 100% guaranteed no spam.
Just move to southern California where it doesn't rain ever, and is so hot you cant even grow anything. You will never have to worry about your garden again, let alone rabits or snails because they have all shriveled up and died! :^)

>>1832600
You forgot the most important similarity.
>Eternal virginity.

There were snails and shit.

>shit posting and speculation
>one quote from a peer reviewed paper
>thread dies
>high level of discourse

>>1835307
thanks anon,this was amazing

>>1831100

>THE WORK OF ONE WHO CONSORTS WITH BEASTS

>>1834373
I love that picture: it's as though the two rabbits have been caught in the exact moment they realise how ridiculous what they're doing is.

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>>1832606

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bumping with catchy medieval music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFUkIAnE6dA

also, whats the CIA meme of the ancient world?

>>1844112
Typology

>>1831030
snails were an olde meme
they are the medieval equivalent of frogs today

>>1834537
>just fuck my whole life up senpai

>>1833611
>the concept of "memes" is a product of the modern age

should we tell him?

>>1831100

Wasn't it suppose to be a joke about the hunted becoming the hunters? (truly vintage meme) and animals doing human stuff was seen as humorous (still kind of is today).

I've heard that the snail thing was supposed to insinuate homosexuality, but that's just conjecture.

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>>1834364

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>>1844112
I know it wasn't sung like this in medieval times, but I love this music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNLoti4sjlI

>you will never be a Minnesanger in the court of a Hohenstaufen king of Germany

>>1832632
And the dragon looks slightly indignant. Like he's saying "Uh, do you mind? We're kind of busy here."

Interracial cucking has been a theme in literature since time immemorial. It's in 1001 Arabian Knights, for example.

>>1835307
>that Successus/Severus post

Jesus, Successus is like the ancient equivalent of a "nice guy."

>>1831114
nightmare fuel

>>1833982
Never fails to make me chuckle.

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>>1831030
kek

>>1832074
I know they're monks, but is it really that hard to fight off snails and rabbits?

>>1832593
Why is the drunk knight fighting the autistic dragon?

>>1831030
DELET THIS

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>>1831030
snails represent a kind of telluric, beastial, demonic kind of thing like sneks, except there aren't that many sneks in northern europe. it's all about the battle between our higher impulses (civilised, kingly, masculine) and lower (sexual, earthly, negroid, feminine) in a culture that was just finding it's artistic and spiritual footing.

or as the other guy said snails eat parchment. idk.

>all those pictures

I couldnt even decide which one is the best. I really having a giggle here over this thread. Medieval shitposting is pretty stellar

>>1846825
There's a difference between "internet meme" and the concept of memes by Dakwins, playful and imaginative imagery conjoined with a deeper symbolism is multiple memes combined however the projection that this correlates with the internet understanding of meme in terms of mindless things that are copied because they are "funny" is wrong

>>1850236
Surely there are differences, but the concept is really the same. It just lies in the nature of the internet to spawn "empty" memes, just because it is so easy to spread information, but it is overall comparable. I think the basic concept of something being memetic is as old as complex communication itself.

>>1850213
shittiest tits i've ever seen