Oswald and the Irish
Oswald and the Irish Ziegler, Michelle The Heroic Age Issue 4 Winter 2001 Abstract To understand King Oswald of Bernicia (r. 634/5-642), it…
What’s in a name? Britons, Angles, ethnicity and material culture from the fourth to seventh centuries
The emergence of various ‘ethnically’ based polities in early medieval Britain has long been a source of debate and confusion. I explore how ethnic self-identity is constructed and how the identities of the former Roman citizens of Britain changed.
The Anglo-British Cemetery at Bamburgh An E-Interview with Graeme Young of the Bamburgh Castle Research Project
The Anglo-British Cemetery at Bamburgh An E-Interview with Graeme Young of the Bamburgh Castle Research Project Ziegler, Michelle The Heroic Age Issue 4…
Saxon Bishop and Celtic King: Interactions between Aldhelm of Wessex and Geraint of Dumnonia
Saxon Bishop and Celtic King: Interactions between Aldhelm of Wessex and Geraint of Dumnonia Grimmer, Martin The Heroic Age Issue 4 Winter 2001…
Post-Severan Cramond: A Late Roman and Early Historic British and Anglo-Saxon Religious Centre?
Post-Severan Cramond: A Late Roman and Early Historic British and Anglo-Saxon Religious Centre? Cessford, Craig The Heroic Age Issue 4 Winter 2001 Abstract…
Redundant Ethnogenesis in Beowulf
Redundant Ethnogenesis in Beowulf Davis, Craig R. The Heroic Age Issue 5 Summer/Autumn 2001 Abstract One of the Beowulf poet’s purposes is to…
Gæst, gender, and kin in Beowulf: Consumption of the Boundaries
Gæst, gender, and kin in Beowulf: Consumption of the Boundaries Anderson, Carolyn The Heroic Age Issue 5 Summer/Autumn 2001 Abstract Grendel’s Mother’s masculinity…
Hwanan sio fæhð aras: Defining the Feud in Beowulf
Hwanan sio fæhð aras: Defining the Feud in Beowulf Day, David The Heroic Age Issue 5 Summer/Autumn 2001 Abstract The Beowulf poet’s use…
The Social Centrality of Women in Beowulf: A New Context
This paper examines the roles of the women in Beowulf, focusing on those of hostess, peaceweavers, and monsters. When read through an anthropological lens, Beowulf presents the female characters as being central both in the story itself and in the society presented in the poem.
Art and reform in tenth-century Rome – the paintings of S. Maria in Pallara
The medieval wall paintings of the church of S. Maria in Pallara, situated on the Palatine Hill, Rome, provide insight into the intellectual use of images in the Middle Ages. The fragmentary apse programme survives, supplemented by antiquarian drawings that include copies of lost nave cycles and a lost donor portrait of their patron, Petrus Medicus.
Donor Portraits in Late Medieval Venice c.1280-1413
Although the donor portrait was extremely popular throughout Europe and mainland Italy during the late Middle Ages, the few art historians who have addressed the subject have concluded that the motif was not popular in fourteenth-century Venice.
An Education in the Mead-Hall : Beowulf’s Lessons for Young Warriors
This essay explores how Beowulf may have indoctrinated the young warriors hearing the tale. The poem prompts the geoguð (young warriors) to consider how they would respond in psychologically threatening situations, and it presents as their model Beowulf, who faces each risk bravely and is justly rewarded.
“The Wealth They Left Us”: Two Women Author Themselves through Others’ Lives in Beowulf
“The Wealth They Left Us”: Two Women Author Themselves through Others’ Lives in Beowulf Osborn, Marijane The Heroic Age Issue 5 Summer/Autumn 2001…
Wicked Queens and Cousin Strategies in Beowulf and Elsewhere
This essay sets the ‘Modthrytho Episode’ of Beowulf in the context of historical and legendary ‘wicked queens’ in Anglo-Saxon England
Beowulf and the Wills: Traces of Totemism?
Beowulf and the Wills: Traces of Totemism? Glosecki, Stephen O. The Heroic Age Issue 5 Summer/Autumn 2001 Abstract This paper accounts for the…