This paper seeks to examine the fourth and fifth centuries in Britain in order to address the issue of collapse versus continuity after the end of the Roman state.
Ring-givers and Romans : the cultural roots of Anglo-Saxon church architecture
July 17, 2012 By
The stone churches of pre-Conquest England are markedly different from those of their continental contemporaries and Norman successors, yet generations of historians have viewed these differences as inferior attempts to replicate continental forms.
Barbarian Invaders and Roman Collaborators
July 13, 2012 By
In a law drawn up on December 10, 408 (CTh 10.10.25) Honorius stated that a barbarian inroad was expected in Illyricum, and that numbers of
the inhabitants had taken flight to other provinces. He declared that their freedom was therefore in danger: they were likely to be kidnapped by unscrupulous men and enslaved.
The Idea of North
May 31, 2012 By
Tacitus’s two important treatises, vital as sources for our knowledge of the life of the Anglo-Saxons, represent a people who know their limits and stick to them.
The Pictish Tattoo: Origins of a Myth
May 20, 2012 By
By tracing the extant literary references based on Caesar’s remark it is possible to see just how the innocent observation came to apply to a totally different people—how the myth was born.
Was St Patrick a slave-trading Roman official who fled to Ireland?
March 17, 2012 By
With St Patrick’s Day upon us, a new study asks whether the saint fled his native Britain to escape a career as a Roman tax collector, only to arrive in Ireland and sell slaves.
Going native, becoming German: Isotopes and identities in late Roman and early medieval England
March 8, 2012 By
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.
Relics, Religious Authority, and the Sanctification of Domestic Space in the Home Gregory of Tours: An Analysis of the Glory of the Confessors 20
March 6, 2012 By
With the rival clerics out of the way, Gregory still needed to solidify his new and publicly contested position with local elites and other powerful members of his new congregation. Thus, much of what Gregory did early in his episcopacy was intended to convince the community at Tours that he was their right man.
Alternate fortunes? The role of domestic ducks and geese from Roman to Medieval times in Britain
February 27, 2012 By
In this paper the relative frequency of duck and goose bones found in archaeological sites of Roman and medieval times in Britain will be discussed.
The continuity of Roman water supply systems in post-Roman Spain: the case of Valentia, a reliable example?
February 12, 2012 By
This paper will thus be structured in several sections. First it will be necessary to approach the topic of Roman water supply systems as a whole, their direct relationship with urbanism and city-dwellers, and how these monuments were a clear indicator of Romanitas, even in the post-Roman period.
Relations between the Late Roman World and Barbarian Europe in the Light of Coin Finds
December 21, 2011 By
And so, during a period of well developed exchange between the Roman Empire and the Barbaricum, coinciding with the Golden Age and the House of Antonine, Roman coins started to flow more intensively in the reign of the last two Antonine emperors.
Germanic Women: Mundium and Property, 400-1000
September 7, 2011 By
Germanic Women: Mundium and Property, 400-1000 Dunn, Kimberlee Harper (University of North Texas) M.A. Thesis (Science), University of North Texas, August (2006) Abstract Many historians would like to discover a time of relative freedom, security and independence for women of the past. The Germanic era, from 400-1000 AD, was a time of stability, and security […]
Querns, Millstones, and Trade in Roman and Anglo-Saxon Britain
June 19, 2011 By
Querns, Millstones, and Trade in Roman and Anglo-Saxon Britain By Jon Addison Classlcal Studies Honours Thesis, University of Adelaide, 1995 Introduction: Using millstones and quernstones (small hand operated grain grinders) as a means of testing theories on trade and marketing in Roman times and in early mediaeval times in Britain has both advantages and disadvantages. […]
The Anglo-Saxon See and Cathedral of Dorchester-on-Thames: the Evidence Reconsidered
April 11, 2011 By
The Anglo-Saxon See and Cathedral of Dorchester-on-Thames: the Evidence Reconsidered Doggett, Nicholas Oxoniensia,Vol. 51 (1986) Abstract Situated on the northern frontier of the West Saxon kingdom, Dorchester was given in 635 to the missionary saint, Birinus, as the site of his cathedral and see. It is suggested that the choice was partly dictated by political […]
The Anglo-Saxon Influence on Romano-Britain: Research past and present
February 22, 2011 By
The Anglo-Saxon Influence on Romano-Britain: Research past and present By Charlotte Russell Durham Anthropology Journal, Volume 13:1 (2005) Abstract: The Romano-British to Anglo-Saxon transition in Britain is one of the most striking transitions seen in the archaeological record. Changes in burial practice between these periods, along with historical, anthropological, environmental and linguistic evidence have all […]
Reasons for Political Instability in the Visigothic Kingdom in Iberia
February 13, 2011 By
Reasons for Political Instability in the Visigothic Kingdom in Iberia Bourassa, Gillian Washington College Review, Vol.15 (2007) Abstract Europe experienced significant changes during the fourth and fifth centuries of the Common Era, as the Roman Empire declined and several new kingdoms rose to prominence in the West as a result of the migrations of various Germanic […]
Roma as Character: The Role of Rome in Historia Regum Britanniae
February 8, 2011 By
Roma as Character: The Role of Rome in Historia Regum Britanniae By Stephen Brown Labyrinth: An online journal published by the Classical Studies Department of the University of Waterloo, Issue 88 (2007) Introduction: A reader with even a casual familiarity with ancient history realizes quickly that Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae is a not […]
Land and power in Early Medieval Wales
February 6, 2011 By
Land and power in Early Medieval Wales Davies, Wendy Past and Present, Vol.78 (1981) Abstract Such was the impact of the conquest of Wales that we remain more conscious of the difference between Welsh and others, a difference sustained by the continuing use of Welsh law in some areas after the Conquest, than of any similarities between […]
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