Category: Medieval History

Marvellous malacomorphs

What are “malacomorphs”? Well, “malakos” in Greek means literally “soft”, but it’s also by analogy how we scientifically call mollusks, including snails: malacology, for example, is the study of mollusks. So “malacomorphs” are snail-creatures. For some reason that even most specialists don’t know, many manuscripts have in their corners little illustrations of snails and other…