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Marginalia Fight Club – Medieval Jousting T-Shirt

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First rule of Marginalia Fight Club: nobody knows why the squirrel brought a lance.

Medieval manuscripts weren't all saints, scripture and solemn scholarship. Their margins were home to some truly unhinged illustrations — including a squirrel riding an antelope into battle against an ape mounted on a unicorn.

And no, we haven't made that up.

The extraordinary joust appears in a 14th-century illuminated manuscript of Brunetto Latini's Li Livres dou Trésor, now held by the British Library.

Our Marginalia Fight Club — The Improbable Joust T-shirt reimagines this wonderfully peculiar piece of medieval art as an underground fighting club. Complete with improbable opponents, questionable mounts and an alarming commitment to competitive nonsense.

Inspired by genuine medieval manuscript marginalia, it's a wearable tribute to the anonymous artists who apparently decided that the margins were where the real action belonged.

For medieval history enthusiasts, manuscript obsessives, art lovers and anyone who appreciates that the Middle Ages were considerably stranger than advertised.

The first rule of Marginalia Fight Club? You've already read too much.

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  • Solid colors are 100% Airlume combed and ring-spun cotton
  • Ash color is 99% combed and ring-spun cotton, 1% polyester
  • Heather colors are 52% combed and ring-spun cotton, 48% polyester
  • Athletic and Black Heather are 90% combed and ring-spun cotton, 10% polyester
  • Heather Prism colors are 99% combed and ring-spun cotton, 1% polyester
  • Lightweight fabric (4.2 oz) 
  • Regular fit
  • Unisex sizing

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