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Vice, Tyranny, Violence, and the Usurpation of Flanders (1071) in Flemish Historiography from 1093 to 1294

Medievalists.net — Mon, 01 Dec 2014 11:46:15 +0000

The earliest sources of the history of medieval Flanders do not agree on the origins of the counts. The earliest source, the so-called “Genealogy of Arnold [I],” credibly traces the counts’ origin to Baldwin I “Iron Arm,”...

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Race, Periodicity, and the (Neo-) Middle Ages

Medievalists.net — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 06:54:07 +0000

My goal is to intervene in ongoing discussions of race and periodicity, particularly vis-à-vis medieval culture, in order to investigate the informing role of the medieval and more particularly of medievalisms in the construction, representation, and perpetuation of modern racisms.

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Enemy and Ancestor: Viking Identities and Ethnic Boundaries in England and Normandy, c.950 – c.1015

Medievalists.net — Tue, 12 Aug 2014 16:14:42 +0000

This thesis is a comparison of ethnicity in Viking Age England and Normandy. It focuses on the period c.950-c.1015, which begins several generations after the initial Scandinavian settlements in both regions.

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Approaches to paganism and uses of the pre-Christian past in Geoffrey of Monmouth and Snorri Sturluson

Medievalists.net — Mon, 05 May 2014 17:52:13 +0000

The dissertation is a comparative analysis of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s and Snorri Sturlusson’s descriptions of paganism and uses of pre-Christian history. What was the function of these pre-Christian narratives, and what apporaches were used by the two authors to construct a complete image of the past, acceptable to their contemporary societies?

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Reconsidering Agatha, Wife of Eadward the Exile

Medievalists.net — Sat, 11 Jan 2014 23:15:26 +0000

The antecedents of Agatha, wife of Eadward the Exile and ancestress of Scottish and English monarchs since the twelfth century and their countless descendants in Europe and America, have been the subject of much dispute...

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Woden and his Roles in Anglo-Saxon Royal Genealogy

Medievalists.net — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 21:21:31 +0000

The essay will attempt to determine the origin of the cult of Woden and also to explore the functions, history and patterns of Woden’s inclusion in royal genealogies.

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Global Positioning in Medieval Ireland: Narrative, Onomastics, Genealogy

Medievalists.net — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 01:25:55 +0000

Global Positioning in Medieval Ireland: Narrative, Onomastics, Genealogy Melia, Daniel F. Paper given at 22nd Annual UC Celtic Studies Conference, at UCLA, March 16-19, (2000) Abstract I am mainly going to be talking here about people writing things down. I hope that by doing so, however, I can get a little closer to being able to describe […]

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