Adomnán, Iona, and the Life of St. Columba: Their Place Among Continental Saints
Adomnán, Iona, and the Life of St. Columba: Their Place Among Continental Saints Wetherill, Jeffrey The Heroic Age Issue 6 Spring 2003 Abstract…
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.
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…
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…
From Caesarea to Eynsham: A Consideration of the Proposed Route(s) of the Admonition to a Spiritual Son to Anglo-Saxon England
From Caesarea to Eynsham: A Consideration of the Proposed Route(s) of the Admonition to a Spiritual Son to Anglo-Saxon England Locherbie-Cameron, M.A. The…
Shaping Anglo-Saxon Lordship in the Heroic Literature of the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries
Shaping Anglo-Saxon Lordship in the Heroic Literature of the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries Hill, John The Heroic Age Issue 3 Summer 2000 Abstract…
C. Scott Littleton and Linda A. Malcor’s From Scythia to Camelot
C. Scott Littleton and Linda A. Malcor’s From Scythia to Camelot Mair, Victor H. The Heroic Age, Issue 2, Autumn/Winter 1999 Abstract Given…
Lucius Artorius Castus: Part 2: The Battles in Britain
Lucius Artorius Castus: Part 2: The Battles in Britain Malcor, Linda A. The Heroic Age, Issue 2, Autumn/Winter 1999 Abstract Even though Lucius…
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.
Forty Years of Fear:Facts, fiction, and the dates for Vortigern in Chapter 66 of the Historia Brittonum
Forty Years of Fear:Facts, fiction, and the dates for Vortigern in Chapter 66 of the Historia Brittonum Vermaat, Robert The Heroic Age, Issue…
The Gododdin Revisited
The Gododdin Revisited Clarkson, Tim The Heroic Age, Issue 1, Spring/Summer 1999 Abstract A critical review of John Koch’s reconstruction of the historical…
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…
The Age of Arthur:Some Historical and Archaeological Background
The Age of Arthur:Some Historical and Archaeological Background Snyder, Christopher The Heroic Age, Issue 1, Spring/Summer 1999 Abstract The following is an historiographic…
The Church in Anglo-Saxon England
The Church in Anglo-Saxon England By John Godfrey Cambridge University Press, 2009 ISBN: 9780521109048 It is likely that the gospel was brought to…