Chloe Fairbanks and Mary Hitchman are joined by Abi Bleach (University of Manchester) to discuss apocalyptic literature, climate crisis, and how Ælfric ensured his congregants didn't forget about the end of the world during their summer holidays.

Works Consulted

*denotes readings

*Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English People I.32, trans. L. Sherley-Price and rev. R. E. Latham and D. H. Farmer (London: Penguin Books, 1990), p. 95

*Lady Elizabeth Tyrwhit, ‘The Hymne of the daie of judgement’, in Early Modern Women Poets: An Anthology, ed. Jane Stevenson and Peter Davidson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), p. 18

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, ed. and trans. Michael Swanton (Phoenix Press: London, 2000)

Old English Shorter Poems, Vol. II: Wisdom and Lyric, ed. and trans. Robert E. Bjork (Harvard University Press: Cambridge, M.A., 2014)

John Aberth, From the Brink of the Apocalypse: Confronting Famine, War, Plague and Death in the Later Middle Ages (Routledge: Abingdon, 2000)

Dee Dee Chainey, A Treasury of British Folklore (National Trust Books: London, 2018)

Greg Jenner, A Million Years in a Day: A Curious History of Everyday Life (London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2015)

Hugh Magennis and Mary Swan, A Companion to Ælfric (Boston: Brill, 2009)

General Reading

Robin Fleming, Britain After Rome: The Fall and Rise, 400 to 1070 (Allen Lane: London, 2010)

Cat Jarman, River Kings: A New History of Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads (Harper Collins: London, 2021)

Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller’s Guide to Elizabethan England (Vintage Publishing: London, 2013)

Music

'Fjeld' by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com)

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