Medievalists.net » The House of Wessex http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Rethinking Hardown Hill: Our Westernmost Early Anglo-Saxon Cemetery? http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/16/rethinking-hardown-hill-westernmost-early-anglo-saxon-cemetery/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/16/rethinking-hardown-hill-westernmost-early-anglo-saxon-cemetery/#comments Sat, 16 Aug 2014 13:19:24 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=51877 This paper reassesses the early Anglo-Saxon assemblage from Hardown Hill, Dorset. Wingrave excavated the objects in 1916 but apart from his 1931 report, and Evison's 1968 analysis, there has been little subsequent discussion.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/16/rethinking-hardown-hill-westernmost-early-anglo-saxon-cemetery/feed/ 0 Time, space and power in later medieval Bristol http://www.medievalists.net/2014/05/26/time-space-power-later-medieval-bristol/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/05/26/time-space-power-later-medieval-bristol/#comments Mon, 26 May 2014 11:51:53 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=49872 With a population of almost 10,000, Bristol was later medieval England’s second or third biggest urban place, and the realm’s second port after London. While not particularly large or wealthy in comparison with the great cities of northern Italy, Flanders or the Rhineland, it was a metropolis in the context of the British Isles.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/05/26/time-space-power-later-medieval-bristol/feed/ 0 The coinage of Aethelred I (865-71) http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/22/the-coinage-of-aethelred-i-865-71/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/22/the-coinage-of-aethelred-i-865-71/#comments Mon, 22 Oct 2012 15:28:05 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=36633 The coinage of England in the third quarter of the ninth century was extensive. Dominated by the Lunettes type struck by a number of authorities (Kings of Wessex, Burgred of Mercia and Archbishop Ceolnoth of Canterbury) it presents a daunting quantity of material. However, the authors believe that focusing on the coinage of iEthelred I and Archbishop Ceolnoth provides the opportunity to concentrate on a key five to six year period in the devel- opment of the Anglo-Saxon coinage and specifically of the Lunettes type.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/22/the-coinage-of-aethelred-i-865-71/feed/ 0 A Historiography of Chastity in the Marriage of Edith of Wessex and Edward the Confessor http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/04/a-historiography-of-chastity-in-the-marriage-of-edith-of-wessex-and-edward-the-confessor/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/04/a-historiography-of-chastity-in-the-marriage-of-edith-of-wessex-and-edward-the-confessor/#comments Thu, 04 Oct 2012 17:16:42 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=36211 While records of Edith's life and her marriage to Edward are poor, the historiography of those who narrated her life after her death is rich. In some ways, the historiography of her life was directly related to that of her husband's.

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