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A meditative reflection on what medieval disaster writing can teach us about how to respond to the climate emergency.
When a series of ecological disasters swept medieval England, writers turned to religious storytelling for precedents. Their depictions of biblical floods, fires, storms, droughts, and plagues reveal an unsettled relationship to the natural world, at once unchanging and bafflingly unpredictable. In Apocalyptic Ecologies, Shannon Gayk traces representations of environmental calamities through medieval plays, sermons, and poetry such as Cleanness and Piers Plowman. In premodern disaster writing, she recovers a vision of environmental flourishing that could inspire new forms of ecological care today: a truly apocalyptic sensibility capable of seeing in every ending, every emergency a new beginning waiting to emerge.
Contents
Introduction: Learning to Die
Excursus: A Brief History of Medieval Climate Change
Part I. Edenic Ecologies
1. Being Earth: Performing the "Fayre Processe" of Creation
2. "This Deadly Life": Elegy and Ecological Care after Eden
Part II. Everyday Apocalypse
Excursus: On Plague, Precedent, and the Punishment Paradigm
3. Becoming Beholden: Floods, Fires, and Acts of Attention
4. Ordinary Apocalypses: Wondrous Weather in Early England
Part III. Apocalyptic Ecologies
5. Fifteen Ways of Looking: Signs at the End of the World
Epilogue: Learning to Love: Ecological Attention and the Work of Care
Acknowledgments
Notes
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Index
