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I'm Dr Cat Jarman. There are many things that we might think are unique to our particular lives

as we live them out now in the 21st century. There are many other parts of our existence,

transcend time entirely, things like love, family relationships, grief, warfare and disease have

probably for as long as there have been humans, including obviously the Middle Ages.

So what happens if we try to relate our own present lives to those of people in the past,

comparing our experiences to see if we can learn something from those who have gone through

those same things before us? Today I'm talking to someone who's done exactly that,

relating her own life from a 21st century perspective to her in-depth and detailed knowledge

of early medieval Irish literature and the cultural and intellectual history of medieval

Ireland more broadly. Dr Elisabeth Boyle is a lecturer in early Irish at the University of

Maine Youth and her remarkable new book is out now. It's called Fears Appetites, loving,

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

So Elisabeth thank you so much for joining us on Gone Medieval today. Thank you for having me.

It's real pleasure. And congratulations on the book. It's so brilliant to see this and I zoom

through it and I really enjoyed it and absolutely do recommend it and it's very unusual because

it sits somewhere between a biography, a memoir and actually an early medieval history introduction

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