The Saintly Female Body and the Landscape of Foundation in Anglo-Saxon Barking
The Saintly Female Body and the Landscape of Foundation in Anglo-Saxon Barking By Lisa M.C. Weston Medieval Feminist Forum, Vol. 43 (2007) Introduction:…
Seventh-Century Ireland as a Study Abroad Destination
Did you know that the Emerald Isle attracted swarms of eager foreign students, principally from England, to its monastic schools as early as the seventh century?
The Late Birth of a Flat Earth
In his chronologies, Bede sought to order the events of Christian history, but the primary motive and purpose of his calculations centered on a different, and persistently vexatious, problem in ecclesiastical timing—the reckoning of Easter.
Order Our Days In Thy Peace: Treatments of Conflict in Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum
Order Our Days In Thy Peace: Treatments of Conflict in Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum By Caitlin Callaghan PhD Dissertation, Cornell University, 2009…
The Eccentric Hermit-Bishop: Bede, Cuthbert, and Farne Island
The Eccentric Hermit-Bishop:Bede, Cuthbert, and Farne Island Aggeler, Christian Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 16 (1999) Abstract Cuthbert, the renowned saint of early…
Bede’s Mapping of England
Modern historians of mapping have assumed a wide understanding of what ‘map’ might mean. With regard to medieval texts, the idea is understood to embrace a range of genres that includes, for example, world maps, zonal diagrams, land surveys, itineraries, street plans, and architectural drawings.