Hello everyone and welcome to talk nerdy. Today is Monday October 30th

2023 and I'm the host of the show Kara Santa Maria and this is my last

episode that I have pre-recorded the intro for as I've been

off traveling and sort of not near any of my recording equipment so I will be back

sorry next week in November recording the next sort of intro for the show.

For this week I am excited to present to you Dr. Jenny Nuttle.

She is an academic who's been teaching and researching

medieval literature at the University of Oxford for the last 20 years.

She is deep in old words and she has a new book for us actually her first sort of book for public reading.

She's done a lot of academic work in the past and it's called Mother Tongue, the surprising history of women's words.

So without any further ado, here she is Dr. Jenny Nettle.

Well, Jenny, thank you so much for being here today.

Thanks for inviting me on.

Absolutely.

So we are going to be speaking about your newest book,

which is also your first kind of trade publication, your first book for a general audience

mother tongue the surprising history of women's words

so you of course are you're an academic, you focus on medieval literature, which I guess to me it sounds

very far away from my world, but I'm assuming that it's probably a pretty big

topic of inquiry. Yep I mean it's a very sort of flourishing field medieval studies and

medievalism both in terms of the history of English

literature and what's called kind of global medieval studies what's going on around the world

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