Snail Knights and Medieval Beasts: Marginalia

The strange edges of the medieval page: killer rabbits, snail-knights, drolleries and hybrids in Gothic margins, and the bestiaries that catalogued lions, unicorns and monsters with total seriousness — from Vox and hochelaga to Morgan and Getty curator talks.

Playlist by @illuminated_art

14 tracks, shared on Audicious.

1. Why knights fought snails in medieval art — Vox
2. A Field Guide to Bizarre Medieval Monsters — hochelaga
3. Why Were Rabbits Killing People in Medieval Manuscripts? The Strange World of Drolleries — Well, I Never
4. Top 10 Strangest Medieval Monsters — Curious Archive
5. Medieval Bestiaries or Why the lion is called the 'King of Beasts' — The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered
6. The Middle Ages Obession with Fighting Snails... — MedievalMadness
7. The Bizarre and Beautiful World of Medieval Bestiaries (Part 1) — Thought Potato
8. 7 Weird and Wonderful Monsters from the Middle Ages... — MedievalMadness
9. The Monstrous Other in Medieval Art — The Morgan Library & Museum
10. Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval World at the Getty — The Getty (archived)
11. Marginalia: The Strange Art of Medieval Manuscript Margins — Horsehip
12. The History of Marginalia: medieval manuscripts — State Library Victoria
13. Into the Wild: Medieval Books of Beasts — The Morgan Library & Museum
14. The OFFICIAL Medieval Bestiary Tier-List — Encyclopedia Green