
Blog Index
- The Viking Burials at Hjarnø: An Interview with Erin Sebo
- Interview with Matthew Firth
- Isolation, Loneliness and Risk Taking in Medieval Icelandic Outlaw Sagas
- The St. Brice’s Day Massacre: History, Archaeology, and Myth
- A Scribe’s Life (5): The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles
- Blood Eagles and Fatal Walks Revisited: Orms þáttr stórólfssonar
- Reading England in the Icelandic Sagas: Cultural Memory and Archaeology
- Queenship and Power: The Political Life of Emma of Normandy
- A Scribe’s Life (4): Saxo Grammaticus
- Chaucer and English Maritime Culture
- Owain and the Giant Herdsman – Identifying Celtic Mythology in the Mabinogion
- The Battle of Bannockburn: English Arrogance and the Failure of Edward II
- A Scribe’s Life (3): Snorri Sturluson
- Viking Women & Authority in the Icelandic Outlaw Sagas of Gisli and Grettir
- A Scribe’s Life (2): John of Worcester
- A Scribe’s Life (1): William of Malmesbury
- The Image of the King – 10 Portraits from Medieval England
- A Case of Clerical Diplomacy – King Æthelstan and the Church in York
- Northern Ambitions – Æthelstan and the Annexation of York and Northumbria
- Shame and Masculinity in Medieval Iceland – The Tale of Thorstein Staff-Struck
- Harbard the Ferryman & the Embarrassment of Thor – On the Presence of Odin or Loki in Hárbarðsljóð
- The Battle of la Roche Derrien: Sir Thomas Dagworth and a Victory Against the Odds
- Art, Allegory, and the Authorship of the Bayeux Tapestry
- A Case of Clerical Fraud – King Æthelstan and Malmesbury Abbey
- Berserks, Revenants, and Ghost Seals – Surviving a Saga Christmas
- A Traitor’s Banquet – The Blood Feast of Roskilde
- Creating a Saint – King Edmund the Martyr & the Great Viking Army
- The Battle of Winwæd and the Rise & Fall of Pagan Mercia
- Cnut the Great, the Conquest of England, and the Puzzle of London
- Monsters and the Monstrous in the Sagas – The Saga of Grettir the Strong
- The Battle of Auberoche: French Tactical Ignorance and an Outnumbered Victory
- The King Lives! Scandinavian Legends of Hastings and Svolder
- Blood Eagles, Fatal Walks, and Hung Meat – Assessing Viking Torture
- When Justice Cost an Arm & a Leg – The Mutilated Body in Medieval Anglo-Scandinavian Law
- Relighting the Fire of the First Crusade: Warriors, Priests, and the Holy Lance of Antioch
- Kingship in the Viking Age – Icelandic Sagas, English Kingship, & Warrior Poets
- Crusaders on the Baltic Shore – The Livonian & Estonian Crusades (c. 1198 – 1290)
- Sweyn Forkbeard, Olaf Tryggvason, and the Kingship of Norway
- Crusaders on the Baltic Shore – The Wendish Crusade (1147 – c.1185)
- The Walls of Carcassonne: Power and Wealth in Defensive Architecture
- Shrouded in Rumour – The Lost Childhood of King Æthelstan
- Wicked Queens and Martyred Kings – the 794 Beheading of S. Æthelberht of East Anglia
- Saladin and the Lionheart: A call to Jihad and the Siege of Acre
- Update: Bibliographies
- Danish Invasion, Viking Violence, and Cnut’s Mutilation of Hostages at Sandwich
- Easter in Athelney – King Alfred and the Great Viking Army
- King Eadwig, St Dunstan, and the Ménage à Trois – Propaganda in the Early English Court
- Wicked Queens and Martyred Kings – the 819 Murder of S. Kenelm of Mercia
- Edward I’s Welsh Castles: A Conquest Set in Stone
- Viking Identity & Christianity – The Performed Violence of Olaf Tryggvason
- Manuscript Archives (2): Lambeth Palace Library
- Wicked Queens and Martyred Kings – the 978 Assassination of Edward the Martyr
- Conference Review – ANZAMEMS, Wellington NZ
- The Battle of Crécy: The Language of Froissart and Tactics versus Etymology
- The Black Friary, Trim Ireland (2) – The Irish Archaeological Field School
- The Black Friary, Trim Ireland (1) – The Irish Archaeological Field School
- Manuscript Archives (1): Trinity College Dublin
- Here goes nothing…