Arabs and Normans in Sicily and the South of Italy
Review of Arabs and Normans in Sicily and the South of Italy by Adele Cilento and Alessandro Vanoli New York: Riverside Book Company,…
The Second Crusade 1148: Disaster outside Damascus
Our video review of: The Second Crusade 1148: Disaster outside Damascus by David Nicolle Osprey Publishing, 2009 ISBN: 9781846033544 pp.96 Click here to…
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…
The State of Irish Hagiography
The State of Irish Hagiography Bray, Dorothy The Heroic Age, Issue 9 (Oct 2006) Abstract For many years, modern scholars tended to regard…
St. Oswald’s Martyrdom: Drogo of Saint-Winnoc’s Sermo secundus de s. Oswaldo
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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 Exogamous Marriages of Oswiu of Northumbria
The Exogamous Marriages of Oswiu of Northumbria Grimmer, Martin The Heroic Age, Issue 9 (Oct 2006) Abstract This paper explores the exogamous Celtic…
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…
Pictish Art and the Sea
Pictish Art and the Sea Cessford, Craig The Heroic Age, Issue 8 (June 2005) Abstract Although the sea must have been of crucial…
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”…
Columba and Spiritual Proximity
Columba and Spiritual Proximity Rolfe, Alexander The Heroic Age Issue 7 Spring 2004 Abstract Argues that nearness to other monks was a dominant…
Milk Symbolism in the ‘Bethu Brigte’
Milk Symbolism in the ‘Bethu Brigte’ Torma, Thomas The Heroic Age Issue 7 Spring 2004 Abstract Of particular importance to the Brigidine hagiographers…
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…
A Needle in the Right Hand of God : the Norman Conquest of 1066 and the Making and Meaning of the Bayeux Tapestry
A Needle in the Right Hand of God : the Norman conquest of 1066 and the making and meaning of the Bayeux Tapestry…
The political artistry of the Bayeux tapestry: a visual epic of Norman imperial ambitions
The political artistry of the Bayeux tapestry: a visual epic of Norman imperial ambitions By John Michael Crafton Edwin Mellen Press, 2007 ISBN:…
Archaeology of the countryside in medieval Anatolia
Archaeology of the countryside in medieval Anatolia By Edited by T. Vorderstrasse and J. Roodenberg Publications de l’Institut historique-archeologique neerlandais de Stamboul, Nederlands…
Re-thinking Dionysius the Areopagite
Re-thinking Dionysius the Areopagite By Sarah Coakley and Charles M. Stang Wiley, 2009 ISBN: 978-1-4051-8089-4 Dionysius the Areopagite, the early sixth-century Christian writer,…
Monemvasia: A Byzantine City State
Monemvasia: A Byzantine City State By Haris A. Kalligas Routledge, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-415-24880-8 This lavishly illustrated book stands out in its field as…