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…
The Alfredian Project and its Aftermath: Rethinking the Literary History of the Ninth and Tenth Centuries
The Alfredian Project and its Aftermath: Rethinking the Literary History of the Ninth and Tenth Centuries By Malcolm Godden Proceedings of the British…
The Significance of the Coronation of Charlemagne
On Christmas Day in the year 800 A.D. Charlemagne, king of the Franks and part of the Carolingian line, was crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Leo III (795-816).
ST EDMUND OF EAST ANGLIA AND HIS MIRACLES THROUGH THE CENTURIES: VARIATIONS IN LITERATURE AND ART.
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TRANSLATION ACCOUNTS AND REPRESENTATIONS OF POPULAR BELIEF IN THE HAGIOGRAPHY OF THE COMMUNITY OF ST FILIBERT
TRANSLATION ACCOUNTS AND REPRESENTATIONS OF POPULAR BELIEF IN THE HAGIOGRAPHY OF THE COMMUNITY OF ST FILIBERT Harding, Christian (University of St Andrews, Scotland)…
THE VIKINGS IN BRITTANY
THE VIKINGS IN BRITTANY Price, Neil S. (University College London) The Viking Society for Northern Research, Vol. 22 (1989) Abstract When a selection…
Muslims, Jews and Christians in medieval Muslim Seville: (711-1248 CE) : perceiving artistic expressions as signs of acculturation
I look at five art forms that were either created in Seville or had strong ties with this city: the illustrations, poetry, and music of the Cantigas, a treatise on chess commissioned by Alfonso, and the architecture of Seville.
Carolingian Arms and Armor in the Ninth Century
Carolingian Arms and Armor in the Ninth Century By Simon Coupland Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Vol.21 (1990) Introduction: This study seeks to ascertain…
Castles and the Children of Alfred
My starting point was The Early Norman Castles of the British Isles (Armitage, 1912), a formidable book by a formidable woman.
The Frankish Tribute Payments to the Vikings and their Consequences
The Frankish Tribute Payments to the Vikings and their Consequences By Simon Coupland Francia, Vol. 26:1 (1999) “They ransom with tributes what they…
Session 5: Texts, Rituals and the Social Order – Badly Ordered: Wallahfrid Strabo’s vision of the Carolingian World…
Badly Ordered: Wallahfrid Strabo’s vision of the Carolingian World in the Libellus de exordiis et incrementis quarandam in observationibus ecclesiasticis rerum Mary Zito…
Idealism in Medieval Philosophy: The Case of Johannes Scottus Eriugena
Idealism in Medieval Philosophy: The Case of Johannes Scottus Eriugena Moran, Dermot (University College Dublin) Medieval Philosophy and Theology 8 (1999) Abstract In…
Alfred and his Biographers: Images and Imagination
Alfred and his Biographers: Images and Imagination By Richard Abels Writing Medieval Biography, 750-1250: Essays in Honour of Frank Barlow. eds. David Bates,…
The Ethics of al-Razi (865-925?)
The Ethics of al-Razi (865-925?) Druart, Thérèse-Anne Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 6, no. 1 (1997) Abstract Among al-Razi’s few surviving philosophical works,…
Al-Razi’s Conception of the Soul: Psychological Background to His Ethics
Al-Razi’s Conception of the Soul: Psychological Background to His Ethics Druart, Thérèse-Anne (The Catholic University of America) Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 5,…
Parameters of Tolerance during the Second Iconoclasm, with Special Regard to the Letters of Theodore the Stoudite
Parameters of Tolerance during the Second Iconoclasm, with Special Regard to the Letters of Theodore the Stoudite By D.R. Turner Toleration and repression…
The Court of Charlemagne: Lay Participants in the Aula Renovata
The Court of Charlemagne: Lay Participants in the Aula Renovata Session: Carolingian Studies: Secular Culture II – May 13th By Jennifer Davis, Catholic…
Rewriting history in the cult of St Cuthbert from the ninth to the twelfth centuries
Rewriting history in the cult of St Cuthbert from the ninth to the twelfth centuries Crumplin, Sally University of St Andrews, 2005 Abstract…
Hagiography and the cult of saints in the diocese of Liège, c. 700-980
Hagiography and the cult of saints in the diocese of Liège, c. 700-980 Zimmern, Matthew University of St Andrews, 2007 Abstract This thesis…
Wars and rumours of wars: England and the Byzantine world in the eighth and ninth centuries
The early mediaeval inhabitants of Britain felt remote from the centres of civilisation, and looked to Rome and also Byzantium as model Christian powers.
Private Bodies and the Body Politic in the Divorce Case of Lothar II
Private Bodies and the Body Politic in the Divorce Case of Lothar II By Stuart Airlie Past and Present, No. 161 (1998) Introduction: ‘A…
Interview with Frederick S. Paxton
Frederick S. Paxton, a Professor of History at Connecticut College. The main focus of his research has been about how medieval people approached…
Tasking the Translator: A Dialogue of King Alfred and Walter Benjamin
Tasking the Translator: A Dialogue of King Alfred and Walter Benjamin Griffith, John Lance, Medieval and Early Modern English Studies, Volume 16 No.…