Political Spaces: Medieval Marginalia and Chaucer’s Nun’s Priest’s Tale
Political Spaces: Medieval Marginalia and Chaucer’s Nun’s Priest’s Tale By Danielle Magnusson Paper given at Visual Literacies, 2nd Global Conference (2008) Abstract: Scholars acknowledge that…
The Human in the Monster: Images of Divs (Demons) in 14th to 16th Century Shahnamas
The Human in the Monster: Images of Divs (Demons) in 14th to 16th Century Shahnamas By Francesca Leoni The Monstrous Identity of Humanity: Monsters and the…
Review Essay—Regna et Regnum: Studies of Regions within the Carolingian Empire
Review Essay—Regna et Regnum: Studies of Regions within the Carolingian Empire Chandler, Cullen J. The Heroic Age, Issue 12 (May 2009) Abstract This…
King Alfred’s Scholarly Writings and the Authorship of the First Fifty Prose Psalms
King Alfred’s Scholarly Writings and the Authorship of the First Fifty Prose Psalms Treschow, Michael, Gill, Paramjit & Swartz, Tim B. The Heroic Age,…
Heavy Hypermetrical Foregrounding in the Old Saxon Heliand and Genesis Poems
Heavy Hypermetrical Foregrounding in the Old Saxon Heliand and Genesis Poems Simms, Douglas The Heroic Age, Issue 12 (May 2009) Abstract The Old…
Liturgical Readings of the Cathedral Office for Saint Cuthbert
Liturgical Readings of the Cathedral Office for Saint Cuthbert Lenz, Karmen The Heroic Age, Issue 12 (May 2009) Abstract The tenth-century rhymed Office…
Two Recently-Discovered Passages of the Pseudo-Basil’s Admonition to a Spiritual Son (De admonitio ad filium spiritualem) in Smaragdus’ Commentary on the Rule of St. Benedict (Expositio in regulam s. Benedicti) and the Letters (Epistolae) of Alcuin
Two Recently-Discovered Passages of the Pseudo-Basil’s Admonition to a Spiritual Son (De admonitio ad filium spiritualem) in Smaragdus’ Commentary on the Rule of…
Theseus as an Indo-European Sword Hero, with an Excursus on Some Parallels between the Athenian Monster-Slayer and Beowulf
Theseus as an Indo-European Sword Hero, with an Excursus on Some Parallels between the Athenian Monster-Slayer and Beowulf Littleton, C. Scott The Heroic…
The Icelandic Sword In The Stone: Bears In The Sky
The Icelandic Sword In The Stone: Bears In The Sky Malcor, Linda A. The Heroic Age, Issue 11 (May 2008) Abstract This paper…
O, Ambrosius, Ambrosius! Wherefore art thou Arthur?
O, Ambrosius, Ambrosius! Wherefore art thou Arthur? Reno, Frank D. The Heroic Age, Issue 11 (May 2008) Abstract Littleton and Malcor trace the…
The Germanic Sword In The Tree: Parallel Development Or Diffusion?
The Germanic Sword In The Tree: Parallel Development Or Diffusion? Littleton, Scott C. & Malcor, Linda A. The Heroic Age, Issue 11 (May…
Women Refusing the Gaze: Theorizing Thryth’s “Unqueenly Custom” in Beowulf and The Bride’s Revenge in Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill, Volume I
Women Refusing the Gaze: Theorizing Thryth’s “Unqueenly Custom” in Beowulf and The Bride’s Revenge in Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill, Volume I Jordan, Jessica…
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…
Civilized Rage in ‘Beowulf’
Civilized Rage in ‘Beowulf’ Wymer, Thomas L., and Labbie, Erin F. The Heroic Age Issue 7 Spring 2004 Abstract “Civilized Rage in Beowulf”…
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,…
The Otherworld Yet Real-Time Exploits of Gregory the Great
This article examines the idea of the otherworldly in medieval experience from the perspective of Gregory the Great’s mission to the English. The paper reviews the history of travel literature in the medieval world, how Britain’s remoteness and no known history placed it into the realm of the otherworldly…
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…
Body politics: otherness and the representation of bodies in late medieval writings
Body politics: otherness and the representation of bodies in late medieval writings By Martin Blum Fuller PhD Dissertation, University of British Columbia, 1997 Abstract: This…