50 Of The Funniest Memes That Explain The Middle Ages In A Way That Books Probably Never Will

wait till you see the dogs

Mission accomplished.

Dogs (wolves) were helping humans with a mutualistic relationship in the Late Pleistocene, 15,000 to 40,000 years ago.... DOG'S ALWAYS WIN!!!!

I think it's a tarot card but from a much later century. Maybe 18 or 19 hundreds

Why are we covering 'n*u*d*e?'

Don't leave me!!!

How accountants are born.

But they had more gold than the peasants did.

Native Americans: "Umm, hello?"

I need to remind myself this every time I try my hobby and get upset cause I can't build things I see people building online.

Where are the fleas?

Why this abomination is not in the Scotland flag? "The mythical Scattish Piper"!

The original heavy metal.

"According to the late, great art historian Michael Camille (in his book "Image on the Edge"), there have been a number of theories behind the iconographic motif of the snail in 13th, 14th, and early 15th century marginalia. Citing other historians and art historians, he mentions parallels with the story of the Raising of Lazarus, individuals cloistered away in the safety of fortified castles, the Lombards, social climbers, and more lewd, sexual interpretations. For more, see "Image on the Edge", pp. 31-36." From mhfc, Reddit.

There’s a bit in a comic I like where one of the characters buys tinted glasses when they visit Mexico. It’s all the beige filter and then her companion goes “why are you wearing those” and it pans out.

Well, the dog will be happy to always have a bone to chew!

(bottom pic) Same in Bulgarian history books.

As someone with zero interest in astrology (and no patience for those who insist in asking me my birth sign) I throughly approve this message.

Is that a wrist watch on his arm?

Some volcano somewhere blotting out the sun

There's definitely some hamster in this bloodline

The alcohol didn't kíll the bacteria, it was boiling water in the brewing process that disinfected it.

The picture represents the Old Testament prophet, Elijah, ascending to Heaven in a flaming chariot. In his book, Chariots of the Gods, Erich Von Daniken used the story of Elijah as evidence that aliens visited Earth, the flaming chariot being the ancients' way of describing the jet exhaust emissions from spacecraft, thus creating one fiction from another, and both claimed as fact by too many people.

Aussie calls you c*nt :)

Huh. For the clueless on what Mordschlag is, looked this one up: It's a tactic used in sword fighting and the man using it correctly. Blunt weapons are more effective against plate-mail than blades, so if you have a longsword and no mace, what do you do? You flip the sword around and use it as a blunt weapon. It's funny to think about, but really it's not like a knight can carry a weapon around for every armor type, so if you find yourself against a plated-up opponent, it's a death sentence if you have only a blade. I suppose it's why you see so many medieval weapons with dual-uses, like pikes for pushing down ladders or warpicks with both a blunt and piercing end.

"May you live in interesting times."

"Oh, and we may have to burn those of you who reject this Jesus... but hey, nothing personal."

He got an eye for drama!

Right now 4. Being annoyed because I need to do a thing I enjoy doing, but I'm procrastinating on it which annoys me. I really should have taken the adhd test when they offered. Le sigh

Well except for the peasants he impaled

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Germany did that with Marxism.

marry your 14 year old daughter to the 59 year old king of the other kingdom.

Evanescence goths might be descendants of 410AD goths.

The first incel

Just read the Wikipedia page on the White Ship disaster. It says the Latin name of the ship was "Candida navis". I'm not sure I'd travel on a ship which sounds like it's named after a fungal infection.

It wouldn't have been white bread. More likely brown, like rye.

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She was bff's with a child mòlestíng serial kíller.

He's really unwell, he's lost a lot of blood. I know what'll help....

What the heck you had for supper cassius?

Everyone's a heretic if you change the rules often enough

Why is the word crus*de censored?

Absolutely. Come and sit by Mr Auntriarch.

Gads, that's not Sylvester Stallone, is it?

No, no. When your subjects openly submit to you. First you give them the carrot, and if that doesn't work, you give them the rod. The Mongols (wisely) realized that a spiritually-content populace is an agreeable populace... but if you weren't they were going to light you on fire.

Ours had his eye poked iut and was lashed upside down to a big tree to achieve enlightenment. Oh and he was friends with a prophetic living head and had spy ravens.

Which one would include the one against the Cathars?

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She looks like Katniss Everdeen from Hunger Games.

This one gives me paws.

Except that bubonic plague is generally accepted to have originated in Asia...

Not exactly medieval either

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And you make all the alcohol.

This was WAYYYYY later than the mediaeval period.

Jeez, that last sentence is a crime against the English language. He was one person, he lost one head, and it's a bit of a stretch to call Cromwell's Rump Parliament 'his own' people since it had been purged of all those who opposed his trial and executíon.

Mfw?

"Vlad, what in blazes are you doing?" Vlad: "I think I'm going to call it a stake out. Like if you don't wanna get staked, get out."

That you Don?

Honestly, save for the fur, they're the same picture. Now, if the pic on the left had horns...

What or when is 40 AC?

That works for Austria-Hungary, not Spain-Germany.