The podcasts featuring interviews with authors of books about natural history or history of science topics were particularly interesting this past week. Books about pigs, mudlarking, and microscopy are the topics of discussion.
While in our present time pigs are primarily only found penned on a farm or less commonly roaming deep in the wilds, in the European Middle Ages they occupied a significantly wider range of spaces and interacted with people in many more ways than they now do. Prof. Dolly Jørgensen’s new book “The Medieval Pig” presents and overview of their history during this period.