Medievalists.net » Yule 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 Sacred, secular, or sacrilegious? prehistoric sites, pagans and the Sacred Sites project in Britain http://www.medievalists.net/2011/12/23/sacred-secular-or-sacrilegious-prehistoric-sites-pagans-and-the-sacred-sites-project-in-britain/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/12/23/sacred-secular-or-sacrilegious-prehistoric-sites-pagans-and-the-sacred-sites-project-in-britain/#comments Fri, 23 Dec 2011 20:11:46 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=28163 This paper introduces our Sacred Sites, Contested Rites/Rights Project (www.sacredsites.or.uk), now in its fifth year, and explores issues and tensions developing within today's Britain around prehistoric
'sacred sites' and ‘heritage’, and their appropriation by a wide range of interested or concerned
groups.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/12/23/sacred-secular-or-sacrilegious-prehistoric-sites-pagans-and-the-sacred-sites-project-in-britain/feed/ 0 The Winter Solstice Season and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight http://www.medievalists.net/2011/12/23/the-winter-solstice-season-and-sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/12/23/the-winter-solstice-season-and-sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight/#comments Fri, 23 Dec 2011 19:46:16 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=28159 Does the season of the dark and the increasing day correspond to our own journeys into the dark and a celebration of light with new understanding and strengthened connectedness? Perhaps there is more than a bit of Pluto symbolism in our activities of the winter solstice.

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