Ben Parsons’ “Introducing Medieval Animal Names,” the most recent addition to the superb Medieval Animals series from Gwasc Prifysgol Cymru / University of Wales Press is now available in both the UK and the US.
Introducing Medieval Animal Names
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Living with Lynx
For those who live in areas that have been without such large animals as lynx, wolves and bears for decades and even centuries, the proposition of them being returned to their former ranges is one fraught with a range of emotions, some positive and others no so much. Dr. Jonny Horton’s “Living with Lynx” explores these as well as the research and arguments behind re-wilding.
Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination
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.”
Then There Were Dragons
The phrase “here there be dragons,” so famously seen on old maps indicating places where there were great and mysterious dangers to be found, was not so very long ago not simply a metaphor. In fact, no less an authority on natural philosophy (what would later become known as natural history) than Linnaeus himself included […]
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