The Silver Cup, by Constance Leeds
The Silver Cup Constance Leeds Viking ISBN: 0670061573 For young adults: It’s the year 1095, and fifteen-year-old Anna longs for a different…
Multimedia Medievalia: The Fate of Traditional Scholarship in a Post-Modem World
Multimedia Medievalia: The Fate of Traditional Scholarship in a Post-Modem World By Dianne Tillotson Our Medieval Heritage: Essays in honour of John Tillotson for his…
Making and Using the Law in the North, c. 900-1350
It is clear that medieval Nordic law was transmitted orally long before it was written down. The Icelandic Free State law-book known as the Grágás, for example, specifically addresses its audience, reminding them that “tomorrow we go to the law mountain” Various other stylistic traits indicate previous oral transmission.
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Medieval Travel
The Medieval Travel section is for those interested in visiting castles, churches or historic sites dating back to the Middle Ages? This section will…
Characteristics and Dating of Anglo-Saxon Churches
Characteristics and Dating of Anglo-Saxon Churches By H.M. Taylor The Fourth Viking Congress, ed. Alan Small (Edinburgh, 1961) Click here to read/download this…
Anglo-Saxon Churches in Yorkshire
Anglo-Saxon Churches in Yorkshire By H.M. Taylor The Fourth Viking Congress, ed. Alan Small (Edinburgh, 1961) Click here to read/download this article (PDF…
The Medieval Peasant House
The excavations have exposed a very interesting series of building techniques and revealed that the medieval peasant houses at Wharram Percy were rebuilt about every generation suggesting that they were very flimsy structures.
Late Saxon Pottery
Late Saxon Pottery By J.G. Hurst The Fourth Viking Congress, ed. Alan Small (Edinburgh, 1961) Click here to read/download this article (PDF…
An Eleventh-Century Farmhouse in the Norse Colonies in Greenland
An Eleventh-Century Farmhouse in the Norse Colonies in Greenland By C.L. Vebaek The Fourth Viking Congress, ed. Alan Small (Edinburgh, 1961) Click…
Eysteinn Haraldsson in the West, c.1151
Eysteinn Haraldsson in the West, c.1151: Oral Traditions and Written Record By A.B. Taylor The Fourth Viking Congress, ed. Alan Small (Edinburgh, 1961)…
An Interview with Christopher Dinsdale, author of Stolen Away
An Interview with Christopher Dinsdale, author of Stolen Away Stolen Away is the second book written by Christopher Dinsdale. Aimed at younger readers,…
Interview with Florin Curta
Florin Curta is the Associate Professor of Medieval History and Archaeology at the University of Florida. After working as an archaeologist in Romania,…
Brian Boru: King, High-King, and Emperor of the Irish
This dissertation studies the career of Brian ‘Bórumha’ mac Cennétig from its beginning with his election to the kingship of his ancestral kingdom of Dál Cais in 976 until his death as the high-king of Ireland at the Battle of Clontarf in 1014.