Paschal dating in Pictland: Abbot Ceolfrid’s letter to King Nechtan
Paschal dating in Pictland: Abbot Ceolfrid’s letter to King Nechtan By Julianna Grigg Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association, Vol. 2 (2006)…
British Christian continuity in Anglo-Saxon England: the case of Sherborne/Lanprobi
British Christian continuity in Anglo-Saxon England: the case of Sherborne/Lanprobi By Martin Grimmer Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association, Vol. 1 (2005)…
Gold and its Significance in Beowulf
The gold and treasure in Beowulf are so much a part of the texture of the poem that the reader tends to dismiss them as another commonplace of the heroic age, like mead-benches and armor, included by the poet to set his scene.
Headless Men and Hungry Monsters: the Anglo-Saxons and their “Others”
Anglo-Saxons focused on a host of monsters believed to inhabit distant Africa and Asia: The dog-headed, fire-breathing cynocephali, one-footed sciopods, wonderful headless, mindless, possibly soulless blemmyes, and many others.
Widows in Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Britain
Widows in Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Britain By Marie-Françoise Alamichel Peter Lang Publishing, 2008 ISBN: 978-3-03911-404-7 This volume provides a comprehensive study of widowhood in…
Gildas’s De Excidio Britonum and the early British Church
Gildas’s De Excidio Britonum and the early British Church By Karen George Boydell and Brewer, 2009 ISBN: 9781843834359 Gildas’s De excidio Britonum is…
Gods and Worshippers in the Viking and Germanic world
Gods and Worshippers in the Viking and Germanic world By Thor Ewing Termpus Publishing, 2008 ISBN 978-0752435909 What was paganism really like? Who…
Anglo-Saxon whale exploitation : some evidence from Dengemarsh, Lydd, Kent
Anglo-Saxon whale exploitation : some evidence from Dengemarsh, Lydd, Kent By Mark Gardiner, John Stewart and Greg Priestley-Ball Medieval Archaeology, Vol.42 (1998) Introduction: There…
“A Thousand Years of Deceit”: The New Debate Surrounding the Authenticity of Asser’s Life of King Alfred
A great deal of modern scholarship pertaining to the reign of Alfred the Great (871-899) rests upon the Life of King Alfred, a biography purported to have been written by Asser, a Welshman from St. David’s, in or shortly after AD 893.
Cynewulf the Poet, Alfred the King, and the Nature of Anglo-Saxon Duty
Cynewulf the Poet, Alfred the King, and the Nature of Anglo-Saxon Duty Schlosser, Donna Comitatus Vol.31 (2000) Introduction: Whether he composed his verse…
Christian Heroism and the West Saxon Achievement: The Old English Poetic Evidence
Christian Heroism and the West Saxon Achievement: The Old English Poetic Evidence Hare, Kent G. Medieval Forum Vol.4 (2004) In its existing manuscript…
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…
Representations of Anglo-Saxon England in Children’s Literature
The way in which children’s authors have translated medieval history into their own “historicity” has changed during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as popular and scholarly attitudes toward the Middle Ages have changed. Looking at these changes, my purpose in this thesis will be to answer two questions: why would children’s authors draw upon Anglo-Saxon England for their subject matter? And, what relevance does children’s literature have for an audience of medievalists?