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.
As I have been with many other authors and books that have since joined my favourites, I was introduced to the works of B.B., the pen name of Denys Watkins-Pitchford, MBE, by Melissa Harrison through By Ash, Oak, and Thorn, her homage to his book The Little Grey Men. For those unfamiliar with B.B., and […]
The New Books Network History of Science podcast channel recently released an interview by Dr. Morteza Hajizadeh of Dr. Laura R. Kremmel about her 2022 book “Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination; Morbid Anatomies.”
First published in the aftermath of the English Civil War and its catastrophic effects upon the society and the land, The Compleat Angler has for nearly four hundred years captured and held the attention of a far wider readership than just fishermen. Why and how this unexpected situation has come to be is the subject of the aforementioned Prof. Marjorie Swann’s new book “Environment, Society, & The Compleat Angler.”