Medieval History
- Return To Anglo-saxon Government?
Dr Levi Roach writes: Anglo-Saxon government?and specifically assemblies?have received some interesting coverage recently. The self-proclaimed ?Mercian witan? in particular has been promoting the idea that modern democracy needs to return to its ?Anglo-Saxon...
- Archaeologists Discover 7th-century Anglo-saxon Teenager With Golden Cross
One of the earliest Anglo-Saxon Christian burial sites in Britain has been discovered in a village outside Cambridge. The grave of a teenage girl from the mid 7th century AD has an extraordinary combination of two extremely rare finds: a ?bed burial?...
- Andrew Bozio Reviews Niayesh, A Knight's Legacy
Andrew Bozio's recently reviewed Ladan Niayesh, ed. A Knight?s Legacy: Mandeville and Mandevillian Lore in Early Modern England (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2011), at Medievally Speaking. The review was...
- Tondro On Kid Beowulf; Mcshane On Meddle English; And Harty On The Heart Of Robin Hood
Please check these three new reviews in Medievally Speaking:Alexis E. Fajardo, Kid Beowulf. 3 vols. Bowler Hat Comics / Kid Beowulf Comics, 2008-2013, reviewed by Jason Tondro. The review was curated by Ilse Schweitzer-VanDonkelaar.Caroline...
- Universal Saints Located In Anglo-saxon England
Universal Saints Located in Anglo-Saxon England Within the growing field of Anglo-Saxon hagiographical studies, much academic emphasis has been placed on peculiarly English saints such as Oswald, Swithun, Cuthbert and Guthlac.While the study of these...
Medieval History
Rhodes Reviews The Elizabethan Invention of Anglo-Saxon England
Below please find a link to Sharon Rhodes' recent review of: Brackmann, Rebecca. The Elizabethan Invention of Anglo-Saxon England: Laurence Nowell, William Lambarde, and the Study of Old English. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2012, for Medievally Speaking. The review was curated by Leah Haught.
"Those who have read Allen Frantzen?s Desire for Origins are familiar with the idea that the earliest students of Old English studied the language with specific political (i.e. nationalistic) aims. However, although these politically motivated figures wrote in the early modern period, Frantzen?s work is written for modern scholars of Old English, not scholars of the 16th-century. That is, in Frantzen?s book and many other treatments of the roots of Old English scholarship we look at later periods only as a means of approaching the Anglo-Saxon period and not as a means of studying the periods in which Old English scholarship began. Rebecca Brackmann?s work on the other hand....."READ THE FULL REVIEW HERE
- Return To Anglo-saxon Government?
Dr Levi Roach writes: Anglo-Saxon government?and specifically assemblies?have received some interesting coverage recently. The self-proclaimed ?Mercian witan? in particular has been promoting the idea that modern democracy needs to return to its ?Anglo-Saxon...
- Archaeologists Discover 7th-century Anglo-saxon Teenager With Golden Cross
One of the earliest Anglo-Saxon Christian burial sites in Britain has been discovered in a village outside Cambridge. The grave of a teenage girl from the mid 7th century AD has an extraordinary combination of two extremely rare finds: a ?bed burial?...
- Andrew Bozio Reviews Niayesh, A Knight's Legacy
Andrew Bozio's recently reviewed Ladan Niayesh, ed. A Knight?s Legacy: Mandeville and Mandevillian Lore in Early Modern England (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2011), at Medievally Speaking. The review was...
- Tondro On Kid Beowulf; Mcshane On Meddle English; And Harty On The Heart Of Robin Hood
Please check these three new reviews in Medievally Speaking:Alexis E. Fajardo, Kid Beowulf. 3 vols. Bowler Hat Comics / Kid Beowulf Comics, 2008-2013, reviewed by Jason Tondro. The review was curated by Ilse Schweitzer-VanDonkelaar.Caroline...
- Universal Saints Located In Anglo-saxon England
Universal Saints Located in Anglo-Saxon England Within the growing field of Anglo-Saxon hagiographical studies, much academic emphasis has been placed on peculiarly English saints such as Oswald, Swithun, Cuthbert and Guthlac.While the study of these...