Ireland’s Viking Towns
Comparison of recent excavation results from Irish Viking Age towns in terms of location, layout, defences and buildings show that they have many physical traits in common…
The Conversion of Russia to Christianity in the Light of Greek Missionary Activity among the Slavs
What is this? What is this distressing and heavy catastrophe and abomination? Why has this dreadful thunderbolt fallen on us out of the farthest north?
Poetry, Patronage, and Politics: Epic Saints’ Lives in Western Francia, 800-1000
t: Monastic authors in western Francia during the central Middle Ages composed and exchanged Latin verse saints’ lives (vitae metricae) to create communities of saints, emperors, bishops, teachers, and students
Viking boat burial site discovered in Scotland
Great Britain’s first fully intact Viking boat burial site has been discovered by archaeologists working in northwest Scotland. The 5 meter-long grave contained…
Unwilling Pilgrimage: Vikings, Relics, and the Politics of Exile during the Carolingian era
Unwilling Pilgrimage: Vikings, Relics, and the Politics of Exile during the Carolingian era By Daniel C. DeSelm PhD Dissertation, University of Michigan, 2009…
