There is no hero without a dragon: a revisionist interpretation of the myth of St George and the dragon
In popular Western depictions and descriptions the dragon assumed monstrous proportions and is most often described as an enormous, winged serpent-like beast, half reptile, half mammal, with a scaly body and a powerful tail, four-legged like a crocodile, with protruding teeth and eyes, sharp claws and the capacity to exhale fire or noxious gases.
Painting the Bodiless: Angels and Eunuchs in Byzantine Art and Culture
Painting the Bodiless: Angels and Eunuchs in Byzantine Art and Culture By Amelia R. Brown Paper given at Sexualities: Bodies, Desires, Practices, 4th Global…
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…
The Human in the Monster: Images of Divs (Demons) in 14th to 16th Century Shahnamas
The Human in the Monster: Images of Divs (Demons) in 14th to 16th Century Shahnamas By Francesca Leoni The Monstrous Identity of Humanity: Monsters and the…
What did the Viking Discoverers of America Know of the North Atlantic Environment?
The uncontroversial evidence is therefore meager, but there are hints that the Norse did indeed appreciate many facets of North Atlantic oceanography, meteorology and climate.
Whose Crusade? Media, Muslims and the “Kingdom of Heaven”
Filmed at the University of Southern California April 18, 2005 Journalism professor Diane Winston, USC Annenberg’s Knight Chair in Media and Religion, leads…
Sounding Illuminations: The Music of the Manuscripts
Richard Porterfield, Mannes College instructor and a founding member of the vocal ensemble Lionheart, leads his students from the Schola Cantorum as they perform Gregorian chants from the Met’s collection of illuminated choir book pages. He also discusses the relationship of medieval musical notation to illustration, text, and ritual.
Antisemitism: medieval and modern
Speaker: Steven Katz Given at the Australian National University March 2009 In the 2009 Freilich Foundation Annual Lecture in Bigotry and Tolerance, Steven…
The trip of the Great Persian Embassies to Byzantium during the reign of Justinian I (527-565) and its logistics
The trip of the Great Persian Embassies to Byzantium during the reign of Justinian I (527-565) and its logistics By Ioannis Dimitroukas BYZANTINA…
Philological Inquiries 1: Method and Merovingians
Philological Inquiries 1: Method and Merovingians Drout, Michael D.C., The Heroic Age, Issue 12 (May 2009) Abstract This is the first of a…
Review Essay—Regna et Regnum: Studies of Regions within the Carolingian Empire
Review Essay—Regna et Regnum: Studies of Regions within the Carolingian Empire Chandler, Cullen J. The Heroic Age, Issue 12 (May 2009) Abstract This…
Digitizing Numismatics: Getting the Fitzwilliam Museum’s Coins to the World-Wide Web
Digitizing Numismatics: Getting the Fitzwilliam Museum’s Coins to the World-Wide Web Jarrett, Jonathan The Heroic Age, Issue 12 (May 2009) Abstract Medieval studies…
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…
Two Recently-Discovered Passages of the Pseudo-Basil’s Admonition to a Spiritual Son (De admonitio ad filium spiritualem) in Smaragdus’ Commentary on the Rule of St. Benedict (Expositio in regulam s. Benedicti) and the Letters (Epistolae) of Alcuin
Two Recently-Discovered Passages of the Pseudo-Basil’s Admonition to a Spiritual Son (De admonitio ad filium spiritualem) in Smaragdus’ Commentary on the Rule of…
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…
The Icelandic Sword In The Stone: Bears In The Sky
The Icelandic Sword In The Stone: Bears In The Sky Malcor, Linda A. The Heroic Age, Issue 11 (May 2008) Abstract This paper…
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,…
Bayeux Tapestry Bibliography – Books and Articles
Books Click on a title for more information about these books: The political artistry of the Bayeux tapestry: a visual epic of Norman…