Medieval History
Alumnae and alumni of the department who read CAM magazine will happily have absorbed the article by Dr Rosalind Love in this term's issue. For everyone else, we point you to the magazine's website, where the current issue can be read online or downloaded for free. In 'Wars of the Word' (pp. 35-37), Dr Love tells of her research into the deeply intriguing Life of Saint Eadburg, a Latin text preserved in a twelfth-century manuscript from the cathedral library at Hereford, but which shows tantalising similarities with the work of a much earlier writer.
- Life After Asnc
Dr Elizabeth Boyle writes: The Sunday Times magazine carried an interesting interview with ASNC alumnus Dr Tom Shakespeare (Pembroke, 1984), and his daughter. Tom is an ASNC legend, on account of his being the first editor of Gesta Asnacorum, the scurrilous...
- Recent Discoveries For Anglo-saxon England
ELB writes: Important new research by ASNC Department members Prof. Simon Keynes and Dr Rosalind Love is highlighted in Cambridge University's Research Horizons newsletter this month. As Research Horizons puts it: Recent headlines might give the impression...
- The Fake Medieval Images In Canterbury Cathedral
Thousands of visitors come into Canterbury Cathedral each day, where they gaze upon the hundreds of years of history in one of England?s greatest churches. Many of them will see the great stained glass images in the windows of the cathedral, believing...
- Hereford Mappa Mundi Gets £50,000
Hereford Cathedral?s internationally renowned Mappa Mundi and Chained Library exhibition is to get a ?make-over? following the award of a £50,000 grant by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) towards a new exhibition and the re-telling of their stories. The...
- Bbc History Magazine's June Issue Has A Medieval Focus
The June issue of BBC History Magazine contains three features which have a Medieval focus. It begins with the article ?King John and the French invasion of England?, written by Sean McGlynn, author of Blood Cries Afar: The Forgotten Invasion of England...
Medieval History
'A Pamphlet Composed to Bolster a Fiction'? St Eadburg and Canterbury
Alumnae and alumni of the department who read CAM magazine will happily have absorbed the article by Dr Rosalind Love in this term's issue. For everyone else, we point you to the magazine's website, where the current issue can be read online or downloaded for free. In 'Wars of the Word' (pp. 35-37), Dr Love tells of her research into the deeply intriguing Life of Saint Eadburg, a Latin text preserved in a twelfth-century manuscript from the cathedral library at Hereford, but which shows tantalising similarities with the work of a much earlier writer.
- Life After Asnc
Dr Elizabeth Boyle writes: The Sunday Times magazine carried an interesting interview with ASNC alumnus Dr Tom Shakespeare (Pembroke, 1984), and his daughter. Tom is an ASNC legend, on account of his being the first editor of Gesta Asnacorum, the scurrilous...
- Recent Discoveries For Anglo-saxon England
ELB writes: Important new research by ASNC Department members Prof. Simon Keynes and Dr Rosalind Love is highlighted in Cambridge University's Research Horizons newsletter this month. As Research Horizons puts it: Recent headlines might give the impression...
- The Fake Medieval Images In Canterbury Cathedral
Thousands of visitors come into Canterbury Cathedral each day, where they gaze upon the hundreds of years of history in one of England?s greatest churches. Many of them will see the great stained glass images in the windows of the cathedral, believing...
- Hereford Mappa Mundi Gets £50,000
Hereford Cathedral?s internationally renowned Mappa Mundi and Chained Library exhibition is to get a ?make-over? following the award of a £50,000 grant by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) towards a new exhibition and the re-telling of their stories. The...
- Bbc History Magazine's June Issue Has A Medieval Focus
The June issue of BBC History Magazine contains three features which have a Medieval focus. It begins with the article ?King John and the French invasion of England?, written by Sean McGlynn, author of Blood Cries Afar: The Forgotten Invasion of England...