Medieval Bestiary Introduction

New Project Announcement

Hello! It has been a few months since my last post. I have received a large number of new subscribers, so thank you all for signing up!

I want to take a bit of time to announce my newest endeavor. First, some tying up of loose ends.

I am not going to continue on with the IMBIF Book Club for the foreseeable future. I know some people really enjoyed those discussions, but it was too difficult to coordinate with everyone involved to make sure people could participate. I know we have one more book to discuss, Poul Anderson’s The Broken Sword. I still plan on discussing that one, but it will need to wait until the summer after baby number 5 arrives in a week or so.

The Cauldron of Story series will need to take a break as well. I do want to continue this one for paid subscribers, but I want to wait a bit until I hear back from someone concerning fairy tales and other stories. Hopefully, that will come back bigger and cooler than I ever anticipated, but we will see what happens. Also, the same coordination issues came up, and it was too difficult to continue for the time being.

However, I have two new announcements.

First, I am going to start uploading my old podcast episodes to YouTube and Substack. Substack has up to 2023 already in here but I am going to figure out how to add the rest and any new episodes on here as well. As for YouTube, I am going to add episodes starting with the oldest and going to the newest, one at a time.

Second, I am starting a new project where I dive into the symbolism of the various animals in medieval bestiaries. I am calling it The Medieval Bestiary Project.

Most episodes will be for paid subscribers on Substack but I will occasionally release one for the general public. I have the first four scripts written and they are a ton of fun. They will include stories that portray the creatures such as in Scripture, Aesop’s Fables, Ovid, Homer, Saint’s lives, etc. and I will attempt to explain the symbolism associated with each animal.

I will include images from medieval manuscripts as well!

I have a YouTube video explaining the project here:

It was also released as a new episode of I Might Believe in Faeries.

The podcast will continue as normal! Thank you all for reading and God bless.