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What's the meaning of a knight fighting a snail in medieval book illustrations?
Someone sent me this really weird picture of a medieval illustration.
It depicted a knight fighting a snail, and was basically a viral snarky commentary about how weird medieval ideas were.
I tried ...
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Earliest use of Renaissance Era innovations in Islamic countries & culture?
Though the title may be vaguely broad, I have two specific things in mind I wanted to ask about.
While I was recently considering the cultural and technological advancements of Europeans in the ...
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Which type of cursive is historically correct? [closed]
I learned cursive in Romania, and I encountered some discrepancies between how I learned and the American way of writing. The first row of letters in the picture is the way I learned, and in the ...
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