We continue on from last episode's look at the Green Children of Woolpit with a further consideration of what it meant to wonder at a marvel in the middle ages, with additional illustration of some wondrous things from William of Malmesbury.

Today's Texts

- Gervase of Tilbury. Otia Imperialia. Edited and translated by S.E. Banks and J.W. Binns, Clarendon Press, 2002.

- Isidore of Seville. The Etymologies of Isidore of Seville. Translated by Stephen A. Barney, W.J. Lewis, J.A. Beach, and Oliver Berghof with Muriel Hall, Cambridge UP, 2006.

- William of Malmesbury. Chronicle of the Kings of England. Edited by J.A. Giles, translated by John Sharpe and J.A. Giles, George Bell & Sons, 1895. Google Books.

Chapters

00:00:00: Introduction

00:09:48: Text: from Gervase of Tilbury's Otia Imperialia

00:13:29: Commentary

00:16:23: Text: from Isidore of Seville's Etymologies

00:21:02: Commentary

00:23:05: Text: from William of Malmesbury's Gesta Regum Anglorum

00:39:32: Commentary

00:43:23: Text: from Caroline Walker Bynum's "Wonder"

00:48:08: Commentary

00:48:26: Mystery Word: glop

00:54:15: Outro