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No Game for Knights: The Arthurian Legend in Hardboiled Detective Fiction
Posted on May 22, 2012 | No CommentsIn America, novels ranging from The Great Gatsby to John Steinbeck’s Cup of Gold borrowed Arthurian conventions to discuss contemporary American life. -
Confronting the End: The Interpretation of the Last Judgment in a Novgorod Wisdom Icon
Posted on May 22, 2012 | No CommentsA large Novgorod icon, dated in the mid-fifteenth or early sixteenth century, has been called a Last Judgment composition by scholarship. -
Glossaries and Other Innovations in Carolingian Book Production
Posted on May 21, 2012 | No CommentsCarolingian book production needs to be understood within the context of the communication of knowledge, the transmission of ideas across time and space and the consequent formation of what can be described as a cultural map in Europe. -
The Borgias – Review of Season 2 Episode 7 – The Siege of Forli
Posted on May 21, 2012 | No CommentsAnother action packed week of the Borgias begins with Juan’s 'triumphant' return to Rome. -
Edward I and the Ritualization of English Royal Round Table Festivals
Posted on May 21, 2012 | No CommentsIn the Annales Angliae et Scotiae, a chronicle written around the year 1312 by a monk from the abbey of St Albans, there is a description of the wedding ceremonies between King Edward I and Margaret of France, that took place on 10 September 1299. -
Game of Thrones Review – Season 2 Episode 8: The Prince of Winterfell
Posted on May 21, 2012 | No CommentsThese scenes were all interesting plot points used to build up to the season’s end. While there wasn’t much blood and glory, there was plenty of intrigue . The pieces are falling into place for what’s looking to be an exciting finale. -
Edward I, Arthurian Enthusiast
Posted on May 21, 2012 | No CommentsThe association of the kings of England with the legends of Arthur may be assumed to start with the dedication of one of the manuscripts of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae to... -
Problems with medieval Welsh local administration – the case of the maenor and the maenol
Posted on May 20, 2012 | No CommentsThis article proposes to look more closely at one level of this emergent Welsh territorial order, namely, the level of the maenor/maenol. -
Environs and hinterland: Cologne and Nuremberg in the later middle ages
Posted on May 20, 2012 | No CommentsPursuing the question of economic development and its spatial articulation with reference to the two most important German cities and their hinterlands during the transition from the middle ages to the early modern period is a double-edged venture. -
Beasts and Buildings: Religious Symbolism and Medieval Memory
Posted on May 20, 2012 | No CommentsFar from being a rare or special practice, the use of this mnemonic system was the universal foundation of medieval monastic education. -
Á Þá Bitu Engi Járn: a brief note on the concept of invulnerability in the Old Norse Sagas
Posted on May 20, 2012 | No CommentsHarald made for Thorir's ship because he was the greatest berserk, and very brave. There was the fiercest fighting on both sides. Then the king ordered his berserks forward. They were called wolfskins; but iron could not bite on them and when they charged nothing could withstand them -
The Pictish Tattoo: Origins of a Myth
Posted on May 20, 2012 | No CommentsBy tracing the extant literary references based on Caesar’s remark it is possible to see just how the innocent observation came to apply to a totally different people—how the myth was born. -
Canute and his Empire
Posted on May 20, 2012 | No CommentsThe first mention of Canute in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is in the entry for 1013, where it is recorded that his father Sweyn, after taking hostages from the conquered territories of Northumbria, Lindsey, and the Five Borough Towns, -
Halloween Customs in the Celtic World
Posted on May 20, 2012 | No CommentsIn Wales it is known as Hollantide, in Cornwall Allantide, and in Brittany Kala-Goanv. Samhain's equivalent on the Christian calendar is All Saints' Day, introduced by the Catholic church partly to supplant the pagan festival of the dead. -
Exploring Byzantine Cartographies: Ancient Science, Christian Cosmology, and Geopolitics in Imperial-Era Mapping
Posted on May 19, 2012 | No CommentsDr. Papadopoulos will explain how the study of Byzantine maps illuminate how Balkans and Eastern Mediterranean people understood themselves, their belief systems, and their political positionality in territorial terms.
