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…
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
St. Oswald’s Martyrdom: Drogo of Saint-Winnoc’s Sermo secundus de s. Oswaldo Defries, David The Heroic Age, Issue 9 (Oct 2006) Abstract The Sermo…
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…
Conflicting accounts on the fear of strangers: Muslim and Arab perceptions of Europeans in medieval geographical literature
Conflicting accounts on the fear of strangers: Muslim and Arab perceptions of Europeans in medieval geographical literature By Samar Attar Arab Studies Quartely…
The conversion and destruction of the infidels’ in the works of Roger Bacon
The conversion and destruction of the infidels’ in the works of Roger Bacon By Aleksey Klemeshov Religion and power in Europe: conflict and convergence, edited by…
An Irish Legacy: The Privatization of Penance
The Christian conversion of the Irish, unparalleled in its peacefulness and lack of martyrs, began with the return to Ireland of the once enslaved Patrick.
Burning Down the House: Scorched Earth Tactics Suggested by Wace and Bayeux Tapestry
Burning Down the House: Scorched Earth Tactics Suggested by Wace and Bayeux Tapestry By Collin Davey and Monica L. Wright McNair Research Review, Vol.4…
The Bayeux Tapestry and the Vitae of Edward the Confessor in Dialogue
One of the mysteries of The Bayeux Tapestry is its bias: was this depiction of the events of 1066 meant to be from the point of view of the conqueror or the conquered?
Sacred Threads: The Bayeux Tapestry as a Religious Object
There is a duality to the Bayeux Tapestry. The first half is seemingly sympathetic towards Harold Godwin (c.1022-1066), with the second part strikingly pro-Norman. There is a double narrative, one running through the frieze itself and another among the animals and creatures in the borders. We see clerics and knights, churches and palaces, with the sacred blending in with the secular.