Resources Used for A Wild New Work and The Wheel of Fortune

What a joy to get to study such rich resources for both the A Wild New Work podcast and the private podcast series offered through The Wheel of Fortune.

Below you’ll find an alphabetical list of resources used to inform this work. Crediting an author doesn’t necessarily constitute an endorsement of them or all of their work.

If you know of a credible resource on pre-Christian European history, I’d love to know about it! You can contact me here.

Brolis, Maria Teresa, Stories of Women in the Middle Ages

Dashu, Max, Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Religion, 700-1100

Fazio, Lisa, Della Medicina: The Tradition of Italian-American Folk Healing

Federici, Sylvia, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation

Fletcher, Richard, The Barbarian Conversion: From Paganism to Christianity

Gies, Frances & Joseph, Daily Life in Medieval Times: A vivid, detailed account of birth, marriage and death; food, clothing and housing; love and labor in Europe of the Middle Ages

Griffiths, Nicola, Hild

Griffiths, Nicola, Menewood

Hay, Elspeth, Feed Us With Trees: Nuts and the Future of Food

Heather, Peter, Christendom: Triumph of a Religion, 300 - 1300 CE

Hopkins, Joseph S., The Merseburg Spells: Germanic Paganism

Howes, Hetta, "Watery Offerings: Women and Water in the Middle Ages"

Jensen, Derrick, "Saving The Indigenous Soul: An Interview with Martín Prechtel"

Kibler, William M., The Elucidation (translation)

Kirkland, Dean, Seidr Magic: The Norse Tradition of Divination and Trance

KnotWork Myth & Storytelling Podcast, “A Mother’s Love, A Mother’s Sacrifice: Tailtiu and Lugh”

Lecouteux, Claude, Demons and Spirits of the Land: Ancestral Lore and Practices

Lecouteux, Claude, At the Borders of the Wondrous & Magical: Nature Spirits, Shapeshifters, and the Undead in the Never-Ending Middle Ages

Lecouteux, Claude, The Tradition of Household Spirits: Ancestral Lore and Practices

Lecouteux, Claude, Phantom Armies of the Night: The Wild Hunt and the Ghostly Processions of the Undead

Leodrune Press, Occult Needlecraft: On the intersection between hand-sewing & folk magic

Medieval Histories, "Open Hearths, Ovens, and Fireplaces"

Mortimer, Ian, Medieval Horizons: Why the Middle Ages Matter

Nunpa, Chris Mato, The Great Evil: Christianity, the Bible, and the Native American Genocide (Wosice Tanka Kin)

Ramirez, Janina, Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It

Schor, Juliet B., "Preindustrial workers had a shorter workweek than today's"  

Shaw, Martin, & Hoagland, Tony, Cinderbiter: Celtic Poems

Young, Francis, Silence of the Gods: The Untold History of Europe’s Last Pagan Peoples