This podcast looks at the history of the Bestiary and its implications for our modern, Western scientific way of thinking it is the first of two podcasts, the second will look at a reimagining the bestiary for our current moment.
The podcast is about 14 minutes long. The transcript for the episode and the texts and websites mentioned are below, along with some other useful resources.
Resources used or mentioned in the podcast
The Medieval Bestiary
A database of bestiary manuscripts is linked here.
The Aberdeen Bestiary
https://www.abdn.ac.uk/bestiary
The Aberdeen Bestiary, preserved at Aberdeen University is the source of examples shared in the piece.
The March of Progress
The March of Progress illustration presents 25 million years of human evolution. It was created for the Early Man volume of the Life Nature Library, published in 1965, and drawn by the artist Rudolph Zallinger.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_of_Progress
Punk Ethnography 