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The St. Brice’s Day Massacre: History, Archaeology, and Myth

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A Scribe’s Life (5): The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles

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Blood Eagles and Fatal Walks Revisited: Orms þáttr stórólfssonar

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Reading England in the Icelandic Sagas: Cultural Memory and Archaeology

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  • Blood Eagles, Fatal Walks, and Hung Meat - Assessing Viking Torture
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The Viking Burials at Hjarnø: An Interview with Erin Sebo

By ThePostgradChronicles on June 17, 2021 • ( 1 Comment )

The first survey of the Kalvestene viking ship burial site on Hjarnø, Denmark in nearly 100 years was published last month. Researchers used everything from medieval chronicles to 17th-century illustrations to lidar […]

Interview with Matthew Firth

By ThePostgradChronicles on October 27, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Originally posted on Royal Studies Journal:
RSJ Blog: Hello Matthew, thank you so much for taking the time to do this interview for us! You’ve done a fascinating study on the ‘Character…

Isolation, Loneliness and Risk Taking in Medieval Icelandic Outlaw Sagas

By ThePostgradChronicles on July 2, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Originally posted on Histories of Emotion:
By Matthew Firth and James Kane, Flinders University In recent months, ‘isolation’ has become part of our core vocabulary. For many of us, COVID-19 has imposed…

Queenship and Power: The Political Life of Emma of Normandy

By ThePostgradChronicles on April 4, 2019 • ( 6 Comments )

There are few women in late Anglo-Saxon England for whom we have as much information as Emma of Normandy. The wife of two kings, we find her name in charter witness lists, […]

A Scribe’s Life (4): Saxo Grammaticus

By ThePostgradChronicles on March 4, 2019 • ( 5 Comments )

This article is part of an ongoing series of short biographies of medieval scribes. Scribe: Saxo Grammaticus Lived c. 1150 – 1220 Location: Lund, Denmark (modern Sweden/Scania) Notable works: Gesta Danorum – a […]

Chaucer and English Maritime Culture

By ThePostgradChronicles on January 6, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

There is something of the sea inherent in English identity. After all, the ocean makes up over 90% of England’s borders, it has long dictated external political and military policy, and defined […]

Owain and the Giant Herdsman – Identifying Celtic Mythology in the Mabinogion

By ThePostgradChronicles on December 26, 2018 • ( 2 Comments )

The tale Yvain ou le Chevalier au Lion (Yvain, Knight of the Lion) is simultaneously one of the most famous of the Arthurian romances, and one of the more bizarre. In essence […]

The Battle of Bannockburn: English Arrogance and the Failure of Edward II

By ThePostgradChronicles on October 19, 2018 • ( 8 Comments )

Edward I is considered by many to be the mightiest warrior and most formidable leader of the Plantagenet kings; which, considering the competition, is an impressive feat. So, the question has to […]

A Scribe’s Life (3): Snorri Sturluson

By ThePostgradChronicles on August 5, 2018 • ( 4 Comments )

This article is part of an ongoing series of short biographies of medieval scribes. Scribe: Snorri Sturluson Lived c. 1179 – 1241 Location: Reykholt, Iceland Notable works: Prose Edda – literary work, […]

Viking Women & Authority in the Icelandic Outlaw Sagas of Gisli and Grettir

By ThePostgradChronicles on June 18, 2018 • ( 2 Comments )

There is nothing like a good outlaw story, they tend to contain some very enjoyable motifs – a trickster hero, feats of derring-do, vengeance, comeuppance and, usually, some interesting female characters. A […]

A Scribe’s Life (2): John of Worcester

By ThePostgradChronicles on June 5, 2018 • ( 7 Comments )

This article is part of an ongoing series of short biographies of medieval scribes. Scribe: John of Worcester Lived: c.1075 – 1140 Location: Worcester Priory Notable works: Chronicon ex chronicis John of […]

A Scribe’s Life (1): William of Malmesbury

By ThePostgradChronicles on May 26, 2018 • ( 7 Comments )

This is the first of an ongoing series of short biographies of medieval scribes. Scribe: William of Malmesbury Lived c. 1095 – 1143 Location: Malmesbury Abbey, England Notable works: Gesta regum Anglorum […]

The Image of the King – 10 Portraits from Medieval England

By ThePostgradChronicles on May 19, 2018 • ( 2 Comments )

Early medieval England did not have the rich tradition of royal portraiture that existed among in the contemporary Byzantine, Ottonian, and Carolingian courts. Our earliest images outside of numismatics (coinage) date from […]

A Case of Clerical Diplomacy – King Æthelstan and the Church in York

By ThePostgradChronicles on April 30, 2018 • ( 9 Comments )

A man of no mean ambition, by 927 King Æthelstan found himself walking on untrodden ground, the ruler of much of what we would consider modern England. His grandfather, Alfred, had beaten […]

Northern Ambitions – Æthelstan and the Annexation of York and Northumbria

By ThePostgradChronicles on March 28, 2018 • ( 10 Comments )

On the death of Sihtric, the Danish King of York, in 927, King Æthelstan seized control of the Viking Kingdom of York. It was an event reasonably early in his reign, Æthelstan […]

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