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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
Say What I Am Called: The Old English Riddles of the Exeter Book and the Anglo-Latin Riddle Tradition
Say What I Am Called: The Old English Riddles of the Exeter Book and the Anglo-Latin Riddle Tradition By Dieter Bitterli University of Toronto,…
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.
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…
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?
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…
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.
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.
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
The Canonicity of Two Edgar Poems
The Canonicity of Two Edgar Poems Weale, J. C. The Heroic Age Issue 3 Summer 2000 Abstract Very often one encounters debate as…
The Politics of Exile in Early Northumbria
The politics of exile in early Bernicia and Deira between c. 592 and 635 can tell us a great deal about the political environment and orientation of their kingdoms in the early seventh century.
GILDAS AND THE CITY OF THE LEGIONS
GILDAS AND THE CITY OF THE LEGIONS Field, P.J.C. The Heroic Age, Issue 1, Spring/Summer 1999 Abstract What Gildas calls “the City of…
Beowulf and the Anglo Saxons
Miraculously preserved over the centuries, its artistic importance was unrecognized until an essay by J. R. R. Tolkien revealed its unity and multi-dimensional…
Articles and Theses posted in April 2009
Here is the list of articles and theses posted to Medievalists.net in April 2009 A Fresh Look at Bulgaria under Tsar Peter (927-69)…
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