Price-Setting in English Borough Markets, 1349-1500
This paper will argue that prices of grain and fish, at least, were not in fact fixed by free bargaining between buyers and sellers in medieval English markets. Bargaining may have been standard practice in livestock markets and in some others the evidence remains dark. But in most food markets people who tried to bargain risked a fine.
Political Spaces: Medieval Marginalia and Chaucer’s Nun’s Priest’s Tale
Political Spaces: Medieval Marginalia and Chaucer’s Nun’s Priest’s Tale By Danielle Magnusson Paper given at Visual Literacies, 2nd Global Conference (2008) Abstract: Scholars acknowledge that…
The Politics of Death: Monarchy and Mortality in Late Medieval England, 1399-1413
The Politics of Death: Monarchy and Mortality in Late Medieval England, 1399-1413 By Ciara – Marie Shevlin Mortality, Dying and Death, edited by T Chandler…
King Alfred’s Scholarly Writings and the Authorship of the First Fifty Prose Psalms
King Alfred’s Scholarly Writings and the Authorship of the First Fifty Prose Psalms Treschow, Michael, Gill, Paramjit & Swartz, Tim B. The Heroic Age,…
Heavy Hypermetrical Foregrounding in the Old Saxon Heliand and Genesis Poems
Heavy Hypermetrical Foregrounding in the Old Saxon Heliand and Genesis Poems Simms, Douglas The Heroic Age, Issue 12 (May 2009) Abstract The Old…
Liturgical Readings of the Cathedral Office for Saint Cuthbert
Liturgical Readings of the Cathedral Office for Saint Cuthbert Lenz, Karmen The Heroic Age, Issue 12 (May 2009) Abstract The tenth-century rhymed Office…
A Guide to the The Bayeux Tapestry
The Bayeux Tapestry is one of the most well known and interesting pieces of artwork from the Middle Ages. This feature offers readers information about the Bayeux Tapestry, including videos and articles
The Bayeux Tapestry: Embroidering the Facts of History
The Bayeux Tapestry: Embroidering the Facts of History Edited by Pierre Bouet, Brian Levy and François Neveux Presses Universitaires de Caen, 2004 ISBN: 2841332136…
Theseus as an Indo-European Sword Hero, with an Excursus on Some Parallels between the Athenian Monster-Slayer and Beowulf
Theseus as an Indo-European Sword Hero, with an Excursus on Some Parallels between the Athenian Monster-Slayer and Beowulf Littleton, C. Scott The Heroic…
O, Ambrosius, Ambrosius! Wherefore art thou Arthur?
O, Ambrosius, Ambrosius! Wherefore art thou Arthur? Reno, Frank D. The Heroic Age, Issue 11 (May 2008) Abstract Littleton and Malcor trace the…
The Germanic Sword In The Tree: Parallel Development Or Diffusion?
The Germanic Sword In The Tree: Parallel Development Or Diffusion? Littleton, Scott C. & Malcor, Linda A. The Heroic Age, Issue 11 (May…
King Harold II and the Bayeux Tapestry
King Harold II and the Bayeux Tapestry Edited by Gale R. Owen-Crocker Boydell, 2005 ISBN: 9781843831242 Harold II is chiefly remembered today, perhaps unfairly,…
Women Refusing the Gaze: Theorizing Thryth’s “Unqueenly Custom” in Beowulf and The Bride’s Revenge in Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill, Volume I
Women Refusing the Gaze: Theorizing Thryth’s “Unqueenly Custom” in Beowulf and The Bride’s Revenge in Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill, Volume I Jordan, Jessica…
St. Oswald’s Martyrdom: Drogo of Saint-Winnoc’s Sermo secundus de s. Oswaldo
St. Oswald’s Martyrdom: Drogo of Saint-Winnoc’s Sermo secundus de s. Oswaldo Defries, David The Heroic Age, Issue 9 (Oct 2006) Abstract The Sermo…
Through His Enemy’s Eyes: St. Oswald in the Historia Brittonum
Through His Enemy’s Eyes: St. Oswald in the Historia Brittonum Ziegler, Michelle The Heroic Age, Issue 9 (Oct 2006) Abstract This essay explores…
The King’s Fragmented Body: A Girardian Reading of the Origins of St Oswald’s Cult
The King’s Fragmented Body: A Girardian Reading of the Origins of St Oswald’s Cult Damon, John Edward The Heroic Age, Issue 9 (Oct…
Locating Maserfelth
Locating Maserfelth Clarkson, Tim The Heroic Age, Issue 9 (Oct 2006) Abstract Tradition identifies the site of Oswald’s last and fatal battle as…
Heroes, Saints, and Martyrs: Holy Kingship from Bede to Aelfric
Heroes, Saints, and Martyrs: Holy Kingship from Bede to Aelfric Hare, Kent G. The Heroic Age, Issue 9 (Oct 2006) Abstract Warfare played…
James W. Earl’s Thinking About Beowulf: Ten Years Later
James W. Earl’s Thinking About Beowulf: Ten Years Later Joy, Eileen A. The Heroic Age, Issue 8 (June 2005) Abstract In The Possession…
Time, Travel and Political Communities: Transportation and Travel Routes in Sixth- and Seventh-century Northumbria
The focus of this paper is the role that transportation routes and technology played in structuring the developing political communities in northeast England during the sixth and centuries, particularly the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria.
Twelfth-Century Norman and Irish Literary Evidence for Ship-Building and Sea-Faring Techniques of Norse Origin
Twelfth-Century Norman and Irish Literary Evidence for Ship-Building and Sea-Faring Techniques of Norse Origin Sayers, William The Heroic Age, Issue 8 (June 2005)…
Athelstan of England
Athelstan of England Hare, Kent G. The Heroic Age Issue 7 Spring 2004 Abstract Despite his obscurity in modern memory, the tenth-century English…
Civilized Rage in ‘Beowulf’
Civilized Rage in ‘Beowulf’ Wymer, Thomas L., and Labbie, Erin F. The Heroic Age Issue 7 Spring 2004 Abstract “Civilized Rage in Beowulf”…
Was the Bayeux Tapestry Made in France?: The Case for St. Florent of Saumur
Was the Bayeux Tapestry Made in France?: The Case for St. Florent of Saumur By George Beech Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 ISBN: 1403966702 This…
The Bayeux Tapestry: The Life Story of a Masterpiece
The Bayeux Tapestry: The Life Story of a Masterpiece By Carola Hicks Random House (Chatto & Windus), 2006 ISBN: 9780701174637 The vivid scenes…