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) Â 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.
Hypertext, Hypermedia and the Bayeux Tapestry: A Study of Remediation
Hypertext, Hypermedia and the Bayeux Tapestry: A Study of Remediation By John Micheal Crafton Peregrinations: International Society for the Study of Pilgrimage Art,…
Articles and Theses posted in May 2009
Here is the list of articles and theses posted to Medievalists.net in May 2009: The Great yasa of Chingiz Khan and Mongol Law in…
Stylistic Variation and Roman Influence in the Bayeux Tapestry
There are a number of places in the Tapestry where the graphics of the main register are different in both subject matter and style. The men pictured at these points are workers, engaged in practical, mundane (distinctly non-heroic) tasks.
The Bayeux Tapestry and the Vikings
How did the Bayeux Tapestry, with its images of Normans and Englishmen, come to be so strongly equated with the legendary Vikings in the popular imagination?
Personal Equipment and Fighting Techniques Among the Anglo-Saxon Population in Northern Europe During the Early Middle Ages
The Anglo-Saxon military equipment included a sword or axe, a lance and a buckler, whereas most men would wear a dagger hanging from their belt.
An Appeal to Rome: Anglo-Saxon Dispute Settlement, 800-810
In this paper, I argue that Anglo-Saxon dispute settlement in the early ninth century exploited Charlemagne’s title as Holy Roman Emperor. T
The Otherworld Yet Real-Time Exploits of Gregory the Great
This article examines the idea of the otherworldly in medieval experience from the perspective of Gregory the Great’s mission to the English. The paper reviews the history of travel literature in the medieval world, how Britain’s remoteness and no known history placed it into the realm of the otherworldly…
Kentigern and Gonothigernus A Scottish saint and a Gaulish bishop identified
Kentigern and Gonothigernus A Scottish saint and a Gaulish bishop identified Gough-Cooper, Henry The Heroic Age Issue 6 Spring 2003 Abstract Onomastic, documentary…