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Introducing the Medieval Snail : Medieval Animals - Julia Pineau

Introducing the Medieval Snail

By: Julia Pineau

Paperback | 15 June 2026 | Edition Number 1

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When one thinks about medieval animals, snails rarely come to mind. Just as history has long had its biases, so has the study of animals both have long focused on the 'crowned heads'. A focus on the seemingly insignificant, on the small and the frail, offers a fresh point of view. This book studies the uses and representations of medieval snails, spanning material culture, medicine and gastronomy as well as a great variety of texts and images taking into consideration bestiaries, sermons, poems and insults, as well as marginalia, sculpture, paintings and painted ceilings. Observing the Middle Ages from the viewpoint of a snail can be surprising, and lead us to delve into material everyday life as well as the core of culture-building. This study concludes with a novel reading of the famed 'snail-combat motif', in which a knight cowers faced with a ferocious mollusc, making a connection between Gothic marginalia and a new, most malleable cultural expression: the meme.

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