“At once intimate and historically far-ranging, Apocalyptic Ecologies is a lyrical meditation on how societies grapple with the effects of natural disaster. Beautifully written, it makes the compelling case that medieval writers offer us not just a pageant of weather disasters drawn from the Old and New Testaments but instead provide modern readers with urgently needed models of ecological connection and environmental stewardship.”
 

Kellie Robertson, University of Maryland

“Apocalyptic Ecologies will be a transformative book in premodern studies and across the environmental humanities. With eloquence and great erudition, Gayk traces the apocalyptic edges of medieval ecological imaginings, revealing vital new perspectives on a world that thought about its own end times in ways that haunt us still. A moving and powerful book.”

Bruce Holsinger, University of Virginia

“Apocalyptic Ecologies offers an illuminating account of environmental thinking in premodern vernacular literature. Through beautiful readings of medieval plays and poetry, punctuated with moving reflections on her own experiences of flux in the twenty-first century, Gayk opens up medieval literature as a source of both comfort and challenge to contemporary readers living through what often seem to be the end days.”

Jessica Brantley, Yale University