Introducing the Medieval Snail

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Sut gall astudio defnyddiau a chynrychioliadau anifail mor fach ac ymddangosiadol anecdotaidd â'r falwen ein helpu i gael mynediad gwell at arferion, safbwyntiau meddyliol ac adeiladu diwylliant canoloesol, yn ogystal â rhoi allweddi inni i ddeall motiffau ymylol mympwyol?

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

How can the study of the uses and representations of such a small and seemingly anecdotal animal as the snail help us better access medieval practices, mind-views and culture-building, as well as give us keys to understanding whimsical marginal motifs?

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Cynnwys / Table of Contents

Preface List of illustrations Introduction 1 – What is a snail? A slippery scope 2 – Concrete uses: waste not, want not – from frugality to luxury 3 – Snails in texts: meanings most malleable 4 – Snails in visual art: devil in the detail 5 – Molluscs in Marginalia: the snail-combat motif 6 – Success and posterity: introducing the “Memedieval” Conclusion Bibliography Endnotes

Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Julia Pineau currently teaches literature, translation and medieval studies at the Sorbonne. Though her PhD is on the topic of medieval snails, her research also delves into fourteenth-century literature, oaths and promises, monstrosity and marginality, as well as medievalism.