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Foreign dangers: Activities, responsibilities and the problem of women abroad
Posted on July 18, 2014 | No CommentsI consider a very important issue in dealing with the subject of Empires: the problematic position of women, and their contradictory witnesses not only in representations in early medieval sources but also those deriving from their gendered roles as they have been imagined -
War or Peace? The Relations Between the Picts and the Norse in Orkney
Posted on July 18, 2014 | No CommentsThis article will focus mainly on the earliest period of Norse settlement, before the Norse earldom was established. -
Urban Jousts in the Later Middle Ages: The White Bear of Bruges
Posted on July 18, 2014 | No CommentsJousting competitions between towns excited passions which, far from releasing citizens into some escapist unreality, could plunge them instead into violence. -
State Formation in Europe in the First Millenium AD
Posted on July 17, 2014 | No CommentsThe central point I want to make in this section is that both the Germanic world of the fourth century and the Slavic of the ninth and tenth centuries saw the emergence of political entities of sufficient size and solidity to be worthy, in some way, of the designation 'states'. -
Wise Sayings from Medieval Ireland – The Maxims of King Aldfrith of Northumbria
Posted on July 17, 2014 | No CommentsBe cautious so that you may not be burdened with debts. / Be thrifty so that you may not be grasping. / Be obliging so that you may be loved. -
The Medieval Understandings of Participation
Posted on July 17, 2014 | No CommentsRichard Cross, Stephen Gersh and Douglas Hedley speaking at the University of Notre Dame -
Annabella Drummond, Queen of Scotland
Posted on July 17, 2014 | No CommentsAnnabella Drummond was married to Robert III, King of Scots. They had the longest duration of a Scottish royal marriage in history -
Remains of medieval church discovered in Nottinghamshire
Posted on July 17, 2014 | No CommentsThe remains of a medieval church, which was once part of Rufford Abbey in Northamptonshire, England, have been uncovered after a two-week dig. -
The Tablet, Medieval-Style
Posted on July 17, 2014 | No CommentsWax tablets have been around since ancient times, and now that I’ve made one, I can see why. They’re easy to make, use, and reuse; they’re light and durable; they’re portable; and they have lots of room for making mistakes. -
The Holy Lance, by Andrew Latham
Posted on July 16, 2014 | No CommentsAn upcoming novel by Andrew Latham. -
Images of Castles from Medieval Manuscripts
Posted on July 16, 2014 | No CommentsSarah Peverley has put together this set of 43 images of medieval castles and walled towns besieged, under attack, being constructed, and in the landscape. -
Melancholia in medieval Persian literature: The view of Hidayat of Al-Akhawayni
Posted on July 16, 2014 | No CommentsThis paper aims to review Al-Akhawayni’s 10th century knowledge on melancholia which can represent the early concept of this disorder in the Near East. -
Goths, Lombards, Romans, and Greeks: Creating Identity in Early Medieval Italy
Posted on July 16, 2014 | No CommentsThis essay explores how two different non-Roman historians represented the past to their peoples: the Gothic historian Jordanes’ sixth-century work, the Getica, and the eighth-century Lombard historian Paul the Deacons’ History of the Lombards. -
Researchers discover genome of Brucellosis from 700-year-old skeleton
Posted on July 15, 2014 | No CommentsA 700-year-old skeleton from a medieval village in Sardinia has given researchers new insights into a chronic disease that causes profuse sweating and muscle and joint pain. -
Finding Richard III: The Official Account
Posted on July 15, 2014 | No CommentsThe ‘Looking For Richard’ team of historians and researchers spent many years amassing evidence. Now for the first time they reveal the full story of how that evidence took them to a car park in Leicester. -
Scandinavia and the Huns: an Interdisciplinary Approach to the Migration Era
Posted on July 15, 2014 | No CommentsThe aim of this paper is to discuss the early Migration period as a particular period of ‘short term history’ and its formative impact on the Scandinavian longue duree in the first millenium. -
How well do you know the origins of English words?
Posted on July 14, 2014 | No CommentsCan you tell which word derives from the English of Anglo-Saxon times, and which word came from French? -
The influence of the Bible on Medieval Women’s Literacy
Posted on July 14, 2014 | No CommentsThe image of Saint Anne, who teaches Virgin Mary to read, suggests the feminine culture of the medieval Christian tradition, in which mothers have the mission to educate their girls. -
Britain and the Beginning of Scotland
Posted on July 14, 2014 | No CommentsUntil recently it was generally held that Scotland first began to take shape with a union of Picts and Scots under Cinaed mac Ailpín, who died in 858. -
From the street to the brothel: following the go-between
Posted on July 13, 2014 | No CommentsAssociated to the practice of gossip, bartering, display and selling of her trinkets around neighborhoods and streets, the old woman was allowed into the female domestic spaces of late medieval Europe. -
Women and Ships in the Viking World
Posted on July 13, 2014 | No CommentsPerhaps the most splendid, and certainly one of the best-known, burials of the Viking Age is that of the two women who were put to rest in the Oseberg ship. -
Ten Medieval Kingdoms and States that No Longer Exist
Posted on July 13, 2014 | No CommentsThe map of the medieval world was constantly changing, as various kingdoms, principalities and states fought each other and redrew borders. -
Tweets from the Seventh International Conference on the Medieval Chronicle
Posted on July 13, 2014 | No CommentsThe University of Liverpool hosted the Seventh International Conference on the Medieval Chronicle, which took place on July 7th – 10th. -
Viking-Age Queens and the Formation of Identity
Posted on July 12, 2014 | No CommentsOne may ask, then, not why there exists such a paucity of these women in the written record, but why any are mentioned at all, and for what purposes? -
Warrior Kings and Savvy Abbots: The Cross of the Scriptures, Clonmacnoise
Posted on July 12, 2014 | No CommentsThis paper offers a new pespective on the depiction of four figures in elegant costumes on the Cross of the Scriptures at Clonmacnois.