The Lord’s Prayer “Our Father” indicates Slovenians are West Slavs
The Lord’s Prayer “Our Father” indicates Slovenians are West Slavs Jandáček, Petr Paper given at the Fifth International Topical Conference (2007) Abstract The currently…
Lex Salica and the Carolingian ‘Frankish’ Past
Lex Salica and the Carolingian ‘Frankish’ Past Turnbull, Anna Revealing Records II Conference, King’s College London (2010) Abstract The year 751 is regarded…
PORTENCROSS CASTLE; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVALUATION DATA STRUCTURE REPORT PROJECT 2597
PORTENCROSS CASTLE; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVALUATION DATA STRUCTURE REPORT PROJECT 2597 Rennie, Christine Guard, Glasgow University (2005) Abstract In April 2008, Glasgow University Archaeological Research Division (GUARD)…
Inspiration and Innovation: Orthodox Art in the Romanian Lands in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
Inspiration and Innovation: Orthodox Art in the Romanian Lands in the Fourteenth and FifteenthCenturies D-Vasilescu, Elena Ene (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK) 21st International Congress…
Civilized Slavs: Social bonds in early medieval Poland
Civilized Slavs: Social bonds in early medieval Poland Samsonowicz, Henryk (Polish Academy of Sciences) Focus on History, No. 4 (2004) Abstract In the…
A Viking Slave’s Saga
A Viking Slave’s Saga By Jan Fridegård, translated by Robert E. Bjork Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2007 ISBN: 978-0-86698-375-4 ACMRS…
Fragments of Boethius: the reconstruction of the Cotton manuscript of the Alfredian text
Fragments of Boethius: the reconstruction of the Cotton manuscript of the Alfredian text Irvine, Susan Anglo-Saxon England, 34 (2005) Abstract ‘These fragments I have…
A link with the external world: The stockfish trade in 14th-15th century Iceland
Iceland was settled mainly by Norwegian Vikings in the period c.870-c.930. Towards the end of this period, settlers established the law and the assembly system all over the island.
Whom did al-Ghazal meet? An Exchange of Embassies Between the Arabs From al-Andalus and the Vikings
Whom did al-Ghazal meet? An Exchange of Embassies Between the Arabs From al-Andalus and the Vikings Pons-Sanchez, Sara M. Saga Book, Vol.28 (2004) Abstract…
Finding Cynuit
Finding Cynuit By Nick Arnold Published Online (2008) Introduction: Early in 878 an army of supporters of King Alfred of Wessex found themselves…
Unauthorised miracles in mid-ninth-century Dijon and the Carolingian church reforms
In the early 840s, Archbishop Amolo of Lyons wrote to one of his suffragan bishops about extraordinary miracles reportedly taking place at Dijon in the wake of the arrival of mysterious new relics.
An investigation into cranial trauma from the Anglo Saxon cemetery at Sedgeford, Norfolk, UK
An investigation into cranial trauma from the Anglo Saxon cemetery at Sedgeford, Norfolk, UK Stillwell, Ben (Bournemouth University) Published Online by the Sedgeford Historical…
Ibn Wahshiyya and Magic
Ibn Wahshiyya and Magic Anaquel de Estudios Árabes X (1999) HÁMEEM-ANTTILA, JAAKKO Magic has always had a role to play in Islamie society’. Its…
Vikings in Ireland and Scotland in the Ninth Century
Vikings in Ireland and Scotland in the Ninth Century By Donnchadh Ó Corráin Peritia Vol.12 (1998) Abstract: This study attempts to provide a…
The Cadaver Synod: Strangest Trial in History
One thousand, one hundred and four years ago, a criminal trial took place in Italy, a trial so macabre, so gruesome, so frightful, that it easily qualifies as the strangest and most terrible trial in human in human history.
The Later Pre-Conquest Boroughs and their Defences
The Later Pre-Conquest Boroughs and their Defences RADFORD, C. A. RALEGH Medieval Archaeology Vol. 14 (1970) Abstract ‘For nearly two centuries before the…
A Modified al-Farabian Interpretation of Arisotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
A Modified al-Farabian Interpretation of Arisotle’s Nicomachean Ethics Peffley, Carrie Marginalia, Vol.3, (2006) Abstract Nothing in Aristotelian texts seems to vex readers more than…
How much material damage did the Northmen actually do to ninth-century Europe?
The aim of this dissertation is to examine the material damage the Northmen perpetrated in Northern Europe during the ninth-century, and the effects of their raids on the economy of the Carolingian empire.
A Neglected Viking Burial with Beads from Kilmainham, Dublin, Discovered in 1847
A Neglected Viking Burial with Beads from Kilmainham, Dublin, Discovered in 1847 BRIGGS, C. S. Medieval Archaeology, Vol.29 (1985) Abstract The discovery of a…
The Anglo-Saxon Cross at St. Andrew, Auckland: ‘Living Stones’
The Anglo-Saxon Cross at St. Andrew, Auckland: ‘Living Stones’ Maleczek, Nina York Medieval Yearbook, ISSUE No. 2, (2003) Abstract The remains of the…
Documents and interpretation: UNITS OF MEASUREMENT IN THE EARLY MEDIEVAL ECONOMY: THE EXAMPLE OF CAROLINGIAN FOOD RATIONS
Documents and interpretation: UNITS OF MEASUREMENT IN THE EARLY MEDIEVAL ECONOMY: THE EXAMPLE OF CAROLINGIAN FOOD RATIONS DEVROEY, JEAN-PIERRE History, Vol.1 (1987) Abstract It…
Account of the Viking Siege of Paris offers new insights into the early Middle Ages
By Peter Konieczny and Sandra Sadowski The chance to work on an amazing and unique story was the reason behind Nirmal Dass producing…
Forging Ninth and Tenth Century Western Europe: A Comparative Study of the Viking and Hungarian Activities
The main purpose of this comparison is to see the roots of the Viking and Hungarian ascendancy and to find out to what extent this success can be explained by the tactics, weapons and the social background of the invaders.
Gottschalk of Orbais: A Medieval Predestinarian
Gottschalk of Orbais: A Medieval Predestinarian By Francis X. Gumerlock Kerux, Vol. 22:3 (2007) Introduction: Seven hundred years before Calvin wrote his Institutes,…
Did the Scots visit Iceland? New research reveals island inhabited 70 years before Vikings thought to have arrived
By Owen Jarus It is now thirty years since clerics, who live on the island [Thule] from the first of February to the…