A history podcast about people and nature. We investigate how the people of England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland understood and engaged with the natural world, from 700 to 1700.
On the Nature of Things
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A history podcast about people and nature. We investigate how the people of England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland understood and engaged with the natural world, from 700 to 1700.
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August 9, 2021
The Harvest
<p>Chloe Fairbanks and Mary Hitchman are joined by Anjali Vyas-Brannick (University of York) and Professor Marjorie Rubright (University of Massachusetts-Amherst) to discuss husbandry and the importance of the harvest for medieval and early modern people. We touch on kitchen gardens, the grain harvest, relationships with animals, and the theme of harvesting in literature.</p> <p>Disclaimer: Sound quality affected by recording restrictions due to COVID-19.</p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>Works Consulted</strong></p> <p>* Robert Herrick, ‘The Hock Cart’ in Herrick (Everyman Paperbacks, 1996), pg. 35-36</p> <p>* Trad. anon., <a href="http://sniff.numachi.com/pages/tiJOLLPLO2;ttJOLLPLO2.html">‘The Jolly Ploughboy’</a></p> <p>Anglo-Saxon Farms and Farming, Debbie Banham and Rosamund Faith (Oxford University Press, 2014)</p> <p>The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain, Ronald Hutton (Oxford University Press, 1996).</p> <p>God speed the plough: The Representation of agrarian England, 1500-1660, Andrew McRae (Cambridge University Press, 1996)</p> <p>Agricultural Revolution in England The Transformation of the Agrarian Economy 1500–1850, Mark Overton (Cambridge University Press, 1996)</p> <p>The Agrarian History of England and Wales, eds. Joan Thirsk, H.E. Hallam, Stuart Piggott, G.E. Mingay, Edith H. Whetham, E.J.T. Collins, and H.P.R. Finberg (Cambridge University Press, 8 vols., 1967-2000)</p> <p>Literature and the Renaissance Garden from Elizabeth I to Charles II: England’s Paradise, Amy Tigner (Routledge, 2012)</p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>Music:</strong></p> <p>'Fjeld' by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com)</p> <p>Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License</p> <p><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/%EF%BF%BC%EF%BF%BCThe" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a></p>
August 2, 2021
Trees
<p>Chloe Fairbanks and Mary Hitchman are joined by Professor Emily Steiner (University of Pennsylvania) to discuss the practical and allegorical uses of trees, their presence in medieval and early modern literature, and their importance in medieval and early modern life. </p> <p>Disclaimer: Sound quality affected by recording restrictions due to COVID-19.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Works Consulted </p> <p>*Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, in <a href="https://poly-olbion.exeter.ac.uk/the-text/full-text">The Poly-Olbion Project</a>, ed. Andrew McRae and Philip Schwyzer, ‘Song 7’, lines 271-300</p> <p>*Æmelia Lanyer, ‘The Description of Cooke-ham’, in Early Modern Women Poets: An Anthology, ed. Jane Stevenson and Peter Davidson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), p. 104</p> <p>Trees and Timber in the Anglo-Saxon World, ed. Michael J.D. Bintley and Michael G. Shapland (Oxford: OUP, 2013).</p> <p>Man and the natural world: changing attitudes in England, 1500-1800, Keith Thomas (London: Penguin, 1984).</p> <p>Wooden Os: Shakespeare’s Theatres and England’s Trees, Vin Nardizzi (Toronto: UToronto Press, 2013).</p> <p>The Reformation of the Landscape: Religion, Identity, and Memory in Early Modern Britain and Ireland, Alexandra Walsham (Oxford: OUP. 2011).</p> <p><br></p> <p>Music:</p> <p>'Fjeld' by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com)</p> <p>Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License</p> <p><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/%EF%BF%BC%EF%BF%BCThe" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a></p>
July 26, 2021
Water
<p>Chloe Fairbanks and Mary Hitchman are joined by Aylin Malcolm (University of Pennsylvania) and Dr Hillary Eklund (Loyola University New Orleans) to discuss wetlands, aquatic life, and the significance of water to medieval and early modern people.</p> <p>Disclaimer: Sound quality affected by recording restrictions due to COVID-19.</p> <p>Works Consulted</p> <p>*Beowulf, trans. Seamus Heaney (New York, NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2000), lines 539-549</p> <p>* ‘The Seafarer’ in Robert E. Bjork (ed.), Old English Shorter Poems: Wisdom and Lyric (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014), pp. 28-29.</p> <p>Bodily and Spiritual Hygiene in Medieval and Early Modern Literature Explorations of Textual Presentations of Filth and Water ed. Albrecht Classen (Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter, 2017)</p> <p>The Maritime World of Early Modern Britain, eds. Richard J. Blakemore and James Davey (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020)</p> <p>Water and the Environment in the Anglo-Saxon World ed. Maren Clegg Hyer and Della Hooke (Oxford: OUP, 2018)</p> <p>Fictions of the Sea: Critical Perspectives on the Ocean in British Literature and Culture, ed. Bernhard Klein (Abingdon: Routledge, 2016)</p> <p>‘Leaky Vessels: The Incontinent Women of City Comedy’, Gail Kern Paster, Renaissance Drama 18 (1987), pp. 43-65</p> <p><br></p> <p>Music:</p> <p>'Fjeld' by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com)</p> <p>Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License</p> <p><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/%EF%BF%BC%EF%BF%BCThe" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a></p>
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