Fierce Appetites: Loving, losing and living to excess in my present and in the writings of the past

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Elizabeth Boyle

Fierce Appetites

Loving, losing and living to excess in my present and in the writings of the past

Elizabeth Boyle

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Penguin
15 June 2022

Biography; Autobiography: literary; Memoirs; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Medieval history; Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700

A dazzling and irreverent hybrid of memoir and literary reconnaissance by an unconventional scholar

For Elizabeth Boyle 2020 began with the death of her beloved father. It was also the year she turned 40 and came to the end of (yet another) relationship. And it was a plague year - something that, as a medieval historian, she understood deeply. The extraordinary collision of personal and professional got her thinking about how the lives and loves of those who lived in the Middle Ages had much to say about her own life and about our present moment.

Fierce Appetites is Elizabeth's enthralling account of 2020, a year like no other. Writing a chapter a month, she navigates experiences that are raw and urgent - grief; addiction; family breakdown; the complexities of motherhood, love and sex; memory; class; education; travel (and staying put) - and uses her astounding knowledge of the past to offer insights, consolation and hope for the future. Fierce Appetites is an exhilarating and original journey through the mind and heart of an extraordinary scholar.

By: Elizabeth Boyle
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: Ireland
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 135mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 346g
ISBN: 9781844885442
ISBN 10: 1844885445
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 15 June 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Elizabeth Boyle is a medieval historian specialising in the intellectual, literary and religious culture of Britain and Ireland. A former Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Cambridge, she is now based in the Department of Early Irish at Maynooth University, where she was Head of Department from 2015-20. Fierce Appetites is her debut collection of personal essays.

Reviews for Fierce Appetites: Loving, losing and living to excess in my present and in the writings of the past

Pure nectar for the imagination, and it's my book of 2022 -- Clodagh Finn * Irish Examiner * An eloquent plea for the value of curiosity and the life of the mind, standing up the robustness of scholarship against the frailty of individuals, the resilience of myth against brittle daily preoccupations. It's an agile story, irreverent, capacious and constantly surprising: like nothing else you will read -- Hilary Mantel Bracingly honest, fiery, funny, scholarly, Fierce Appetites really is a wildly good book -- Hilary Fannin Unusual, arresting and genuinely enriching -- Sharon Arbuthnot * Irish Times * Highly original . . . engagingly candid [and] thought-provoking -- Martina Devlin * Irish Independent *