Medievalists.net » Jutes http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Writing conquest: traditions of Anglo-Saxon invasion and resistance in the twelfth century http://www.medievalists.net/2014/03/02/writing-conquest-traditions-anglo-saxon-invasion-resistance-twelfth-century/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/03/02/writing-conquest-traditions-anglo-saxon-invasion-resistance-twelfth-century/#comments Mon, 03 Mar 2014 00:17:38 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=47978 Writing Conquest examines the ways in which Latin, Old English, and Middle English twelfth-century historical and pseudo-historical texts remembered and reconstructed three formative moments of Anglo-Saxon invasion and resistance...

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/03/02/writing-conquest-traditions-anglo-saxon-invasion-resistance-twelfth-century/feed/ 0 Going native, becoming German: Isotopes and identities in late Roman and early medieval England http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/08/going-native-becoming-german-isotopes-and-identities-in-late-roman-and-early-medieval-england/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/08/going-native-becoming-german-isotopes-and-identities-in-late-roman-and-early-medieval-england/#comments Thu, 08 Mar 2012 19:52:39 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=29962 In these accounts, the individual and the group were biologically constituted
in the sense that all the ‘people’ were descended from a common ancestor. Identity and belonging were carried and delivered in the blood; individuals were born into the people.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/08/going-native-becoming-german-isotopes-and-identities-in-late-roman-and-early-medieval-england/feed/ 0 Scandinavian Influences on the English Language http://www.medievalists.net/2012/02/05/scandinavian-influences-on-the-english-language/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/02/05/scandinavian-influences-on-the-english-language/#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:24:40 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=29061 The Viking Age lasted roughly from the eighth century to the eleventh, with the Viking attacks on Europe beginning around 750 AD. The Scandinavians were excellent sailors, and they had impressive ships and navigational skills that carried them as far as North America (‘Vinland’) long before the arrival of Columbus in 1492.

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