And scattered through this marginalia is an oddly recurring scene: a brave knight in shining armor facing down a snail. It’s a great unsolved mystery of medieval manuscripts. As Got Medieval ...

DEA/Album The spread of chivalric ideals led to notable historical figures being framed as great knights in the medieval tradition. In western Europe, this popular idea was forged into the canon ...

And scattered through this marginalia is an oddly recurring scene: a brave knight in shining armor facing down a snail. It’s a great unsolved mystery of medieval manuscripts. As Got Medieval ...

Instead, it’s a concrete facsimile of a medieval castle plopped down on a busy street in Buena Park. And the man underneath those crimson robes isn’t really the Red Knight — he’s William ...

The reason so many knights did battle with snails in the margins of medieval manuscripts remains a mystery (Credit: The British Library) The pages of medieval books are stalked by a ferocious ...

Even in New York, a city where pretty much anything goes, the sight and sound of knights in shining armour swinging swords at each other still draws a crowd. “Are you ready for a medieval rumble?” ...

Police are putting unruly youngsters through their paces on an eight-week "knight school", to teach them some of the ways of medieval knights. The Lincolnshire scheme has been hailed a success in ...