{"product_id":"introducing-the-medieval-snail-julia-pineau-9781837723720","title":"Introducing the Medieval Snail","description":"\u003cb\u003eFills a gap in medieval studies by exploring the significance of the snail.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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--long focusing on the \"crowned heads\" of creatures such as lions and unicorns. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This book offers a fresh point of view with its focus on the small and seemingly insignificant snail. It studies the uses and representations of medieval snails, spanning material culture, medicine, and gastronomy, but also a great variety of texts and images--taking into consideration bestiaries, sermons, poems, and insults as well as marginalia, sculptures, paintings, and painted ceilings. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eIntroducing the Medieval Snail\u003c\/i\u003e concludes with a novel reading of the famed \"snail-combat motif,\" in which a knight cowers when faced with a ferocious mollusk, making a connection between Gothic marginalia and a new, most malleable cultural expression: the meme.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Julia Pineau\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1837723729\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781837723720\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Wales Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/19\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs","brand":"Julia Pineau","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48874477322495,"sku":"9781837723720","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/introducing-the-medieval-snail-julia-pineau-9781837723720","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}