Where the Middle Ages Begin
Rich characters, misery, betrayal, sex and a dose of brutal Viking violence, mixed together for an easy, enjoyable read! Author Jayden Woods releases her next offering in the “Sons of Mercia” trilogy, “Volume 2: Godric the Kingslayer” This story picks up on the life of Eadric Streona’s son, Godric. It’s hard being the son of the most reviled man […]
Talking about history in eleventh century England: the Encomium Emmae Reginae and the court of Harthacnut Tyler, Elizabeth M. Early Medieval Europe, 13 (4) (2005) Abstract The Encomium Emmae Reginae was written in the early 1040s to support the interests of Queen Emma amidst the factionalism which marked the end of the period of Danish […]
Rebellion, Combat, and Massacre: A Medieval Mass Grave at Sandbjerg near Næstved in Denmark By Pia Bennike Warfare and society : archaeological and social anthropological perspectives, edited by Ton Otto, Henrik Thrane and Helle Vandkilde (Aarhus, 2006) Introduction: Mass graves or individual graves situated outside a cemetery may indicate an unusual preceding event. If the remaining […]
Lincolnshire and the Danes Criddle, Peter LINCOLNSHIRE LIFE • October (2008) English historians of Victorian times were often very interested in the emergence of Englishness in the period before the Norman Conquest, which many regarded as an unwelcome interruption in the history of their country. Except for certain western areas, the Anglo-Saxons (Angles, Jutes and […]
The Dominican priory and convent of medieval Roskilde, Denmark By Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig Jakobsen Dominican History Newsletter, Vol. 14 (2005) Introduction: The city of Roskilde is situated on the central part of Zealand, which is the biggest of the Danish isles. It was founded in the middle of the tenth century as the main seat […]
Early Christians, immigrants and ritualised practice. A case study of the south-eastern Bornholm By Magdalena Naum Lund Archaeological Review, Vol. 11-12 (2005-2006) Abstract: In the article funerary rituals observed on early medieval cemeteries of the south-eastern Bornholm are studied and explained from the perspective of theory of practice. Rituals, although sharing certain elements with other […]
The Bestiary of Anne Walshe Badke, David A Paper for Medieval Studies 452 : The Illustrated Book in the Later Middle Ages, University of Victoria, Dr. C. Harding, April 17, (2001), www.bestiary.ca Abstract The Bestiary of Anne Walshe (Copenhagen, Kongelige Bibliotek Gl. kgl. Saml. 1633 4˚) is a Latin bestiary of English origin, produced circa 1400-25. It is […]
When did the Dominicans Arrive in Tallinn? Tamm, Marek Tuna, No.4 (2009) Abstract It is difficult to overestimate the significance of the Order of Preachers in the history of Estonia’s Christianization. It was the first religious order to establish a permanent foothold on the territory of Estonia and spent centuries conducting its mission work among […]
Pagans by Comparisons: Medieval Christian and Muslim Constructions of the Pagan “Other” Busalacchi, Philip Perspectives: A Journal of Historical Inquiry, Vol.37 (2010) Introduction: During the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries German and Danish clergymen and knights set off on a crusade to the lands of the eastern Baltic Sea into the modern day Latvia. Henricus […]
A Swedish Crusader King as Russian Orthodox Saint on the Valamo Archipelago? Lind, John H. (University of Southern Denmark, Odense) University of Paris, Sorbonne, Cahiers slaves n°7, March 21 (2005) Abstract In 1347 King Magnus Eriksson of Sweden undertook a crusade against Novgorodian territory. In this he was inspired by the powerful aristocrat Birgitta Birgersdaughter, […]
What was historically new in medieval Europeanization wasn’t feudalism, trade or state formation, but rational, scientifically conducted disciplining (ethics and moral).
The Late Medieval Agrarian Crisis and Black Death plague epidemic in medieval Denmark: apaleopathological and paleodietary perspective Yoder, Cassady J. PhD Thesis, Texas A&M University, August (2006) Abstract The medieval period of Denmark (11th-16th centuries) witnessed two of the worst demographic, health, and dietary catastrophes in history: the Late Medieval Agrarian Crisis (LMAC) and the Black Death […]
Danish Medieval Wall Painting By Axel Bolvig Making Medieval Art, edited by Phillip Lindley (Shaun Tyas, 2003) Introduction: 1411, Queen Margrethe I, who had gathered Denmark, Norway and Sweden into a personal union, ordered the refurbishment of a chapel in one of the towers of Roskilde cathedral. She wished it to be vaulted and furnished […]
Runes in Changing Contexts: Viking Age and Medieval Writing Traditions Källström, Magnus 7th International Runic Symposium, Oslo (2010) Abstract The topic of Viking Age and medieval writing traditions is is a huge subject which is impossible to cover in a short speech during a conference. For that reason I will not try to give a […]
Less Favored – More Favored: Queenship and the Special Case of Margrete of Denmark, 1353-1412 By Grethe Jacobsen Less Favored – More Favored: Proceedings from a Conference on Gender in European Legal History, 12th – 19th Centuries (2004) Introduction: Some ten years ago, the German historian Armin Wolf published an article on reigning queens, that […]
The Later Pre-Conquest Boroughs and their Defences RADFORD, C. A. RALEGH Medieval Archaeology Vol. 14 (1970) Abstract ‘For nearly two centuries before the Norman Conquest the burh, or defensible centre of population, is often mentioned in contemporary documents. The typical burhof the eleventh century was plainly an artificial creation in which men of different lords […]
THE COINS OF THE DANISH KINGS OF IRELAND Roth, Bernard The British Numismatic Journal, Vol. 6 (1910) Abstract Charles Haliday says ~ “It must surprise those who examine the history of Ireland that so little appears known respecting the social position of those Scandinavians who under the common name of Ostmen or of Danes, occupied our […]
The balance of power and control shifted in Scandinavia as the Kalmar Union, which had joined Denmark, Norway and Sweden together under one king since 1397, crumbled in 1523.
Do the Christian elements of the monument complex at Jelling complement or subvert the earlier pagan ones? Rich, Catherine York Medieval Yearbook, ISSUE No. 2, (2003) Abstract Jelling is an intricate site, which hovers be tween the pagan period and the Christian. In a battle of material culture, the last pagan king of Denmark, Gormr, […]
Open access, nodal points, and central places. Maritime communication and locational principles for costal sites in South Scandinavia, 400-1200 AD By Soren M. Sindbaek Estonian Journal of Archaeology, Vol 13:2 (2010) Introduction: The sea was treasured by Late Iron Age and Early Medieval Scandinavians for many reasons. In addition to supplying fishery and other coastal resources, […]
An Arab Game in the North Pole? By Thierry Depaulis Board Games Studies, Vol.4 (2001) Introduction: The impressive so far unpublished or very little known material that is presented in the preceding pages show one evidence: the Sámi game sáhkku, the Norwegian and Danish games daldøs and daldøsa, and the tâb group of games in the […]
From Runic Stone to Charter : Transformation of property confirmation in 11th and 12th century Denmark By Minoru Ozawa Proceedings of Japanese young medievalists seminar in Karuizawa (2007) Introduction: It has been long thought that one hundred years from the middle of the 11th century when Cnut’s empire collapsed to the year 1157 when Valdemar […]
Attitudes Toward Nutrition and Health in the Ancient North By David Robertson Southern Medical Journal, Vol.71:12 (1978) Introduction: Medieval Scandinavia was a culture torn between a heathen past and a Christian future. The new Mediterranean religion reached Haithabu, the largest city of the Viking period, in the year 826 AD, and four years later, the […]
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