Chloe Fairbanks and Mary Hitchman are joined by Anjali Vyas-Brannick (University of York) and Professor Marjorie Rubright (University of Massachusetts-Amherst) to discuss husbandry and the importance of the harvest for medieval and early modern people. We touch on kitchen gardens, the grain harvest, relationships with animals, and the theme of harvesting in literature.

Disclaimer: Sound quality affected by recording restrictions due to COVID-19.

Works Consulted

* Robert Herrick, ‘The Hock Cart’ in Herrick (Everyman Paperbacks, 1996), pg. 35-36

* Trad. anon., ‘The Jolly Ploughboy’

Anglo-Saxon Farms and Farming, Debbie Banham and Rosamund Faith (Oxford University Press, 2014)

The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain, Ronald Hutton (Oxford University Press, 1996).

God speed the plough: The Representation of agrarian England, 1500-1660, Andrew McRae (Cambridge University Press, 1996)

Agricultural Revolution in England The Transformation of the Agrarian Economy 1500–1850, Mark Overton (Cambridge University Press, 1996)

The Agrarian History of England and Wales, eds. Joan Thirsk, H.E. Hallam, Stuart Piggott, G.E. Mingay, Edith H. Whetham, E.J.T. Collins, and H.P.R.  Finberg (Cambridge University Press, 8 vols., 1967-2000)

Literature and the Renaissance Garden from Elizabeth I to Charles II: England’s Paradise, Amy Tigner (Routledge, 2012)

Music:

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

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