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Winters in the World

A Journey Through the Anglo-Saxon Year

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Winters in the World

By: Eleanor Parker
Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
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Interweaving literature, history, and religion, an exquisite meditation on the turning of the seasons in medieval England.

Winters in the World is a beautifully observed journey through the cycle of the year in Anglo-Saxon England, exploring the festivals, customs, and traditions linked to the different seasons. Drawing on a wide variety of source material, including poetry, histories, and religious literature, Eleanor Parker investigates how Anglo-Saxons felt about the annual passing of the seasons and the profound relationship they saw between human life and the rhythms of nature. Many of the festivals celebrated in the United Kingdom today have their roots in the Anglo-Saxon period, and this book traces their surprising history while unearthing traditions now long forgotten. It celebrates some of the finest treasures of medieval literature and provides an imaginative connection to the Anglo-Saxon world.

©2022 Eleanor Parker (P)2023 Tantor Europe Medieval Nature & Ecology Outdoors & Nature Science Winter England

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I bought this Audible book to supplement the physical book that I already had. With a hectic schedule I often find that I start a book and then don’t quickly pick it up again and forget where I got to. This narrated book was intended to resolve that. However, the narration is just that: there is no feeling or passion that I am certain the author intended or felt. This rather flat presentation makes me dose off. Great for insomnia but not for the interesting story the book contains. I wasted my money on this one.

Sleep inducing narration

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Extremely good review and critique of the canon of Anglo-Saxon literature with sound, well constructed arguments. However, the literature that survives does so thanks primarily and almost exclusively to Christian institutions and therefore reflects the prejudices and potential censorship of the church through the ages.
The author acknowledges gaps and absences in evidence and avoids romantic and fanciful speculation, which gives solidity and soundness to the evidence presented, but in someways this introduces a slightly uncomfortable bias. We don’t know what we don’t know but the absence of evidence is not the same thing as evidence of absence of alternative belief systems not recorded by a largely illiterate peasantry. I would have given 5 stars if the author had acknowledged that it is likely that ecclesiastical constructs were probably not as absolute and universal as they imply.
Nonetheless an excellent book very well narrated.

Excellent critique of Anglo-Saxon literature

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The range and depth and connectivity of the Anglo Sacon literature was insightful and inspiring.

Stunning tour of the Anglo Saxon's relationship with nature

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