Chloe Fairbanks and Mary Hitchman are joined by Professor Emily Steiner (University of Pennsylvania) to discuss the practical and allegorical uses of trees, their presence in medieval and early modern literature, and their importance in medieval and early modern life. 

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

Works Consulted 

*Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, in The Poly-Olbion Project, ed. Andrew McRae and Philip Schwyzer, ‘Song 7’, lines 271-300

*Æmelia Lanyer, ‘The Description of Cooke-ham’, in Early Modern Women Poets: An Anthology, ed. Jane Stevenson and Peter Davidson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), p. 104

Trees and Timber in the Anglo-Saxon World, ed.  Michael J.D. Bintley and Michael G. Shapland (Oxford: OUP, 2013).

Man and the natural world: changing attitudes in England, 1500-1800, Keith Thomas (London: Penguin, 1984).

Wooden Os: Shakespeare’s Theatres and England’s Trees, Vin Nardizzi (Toronto: UToronto Press, 2013).

The Reformation of the Landscape: Religion, Identity, and Memory in Early Modern Britain and Ireland, Alexandra Walsham (Oxford: OUP. 2011).

Music:

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

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