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Viking Identity & Christianity – The Performed Violence of Olaf Tryggvason

By ThePostgradChronicles on March 12, 2017 • ( 11 Comments )

Olaf I Tryggvason took the throne of Norway in 995, reigning for a brief but eventful five years. Though Olaf had been a pagan Viking raider, by the time he took the […]

Manuscript Archives (2): Lambeth Palace Library

By ThePostgradChronicles on February 25, 2017 • ( 3 Comments )

Lambeth Palace is the London seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the records centre for the Church of England. Thus its focus and strength as an archive is post-Reformation documentation relating […]

Wicked Queens and Martyred Kings – the 978 Assassination of Edward the Martyr

By ThePostgradChronicles on February 18, 2017 • ( 7 Comments )

Ascending to the throne of England in 975 upon the death of his father, Edgar the Peaceable, Edward the Martyr is primarily remembered for being assassinated after only three years on the […]

Conference Review – ANZAMEMS, Wellington NZ

By ThePostgradChronicles on February 15, 2017 • ( 1 Comment )

Nearly a week has passed since the conference of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (ANZAMEMS) at Victoria University, Wellington, NZ. This means I have now […]

The Battle of Crécy: The Language of Froissart and Tactics versus Etymology

By ThePostgradChronicles on February 12, 2017 • ( 17 Comments )

Any true medieval warfare enthusiast undoubtedly knows of the battles of the Hundred Years War; Crécy, Poitiers, Agincourt, and possibly the smaller or less celebrated engagements such as my personal favourite – […]

The Black Friary, Trim Ireland (2) – The Irish Archaeological Field School

By ThePostgradChronicles on January 28, 2017 • ( 1 Comment )

Applications are open for the 2018 Spring program An essential skill within the field of history is critical analysis. Historians apply critical reading skills to primary source texts and to secondary analyses […]

The Black Friary, Trim Ireland (1) – The Irish Archaeological Field School

By ThePostgradChronicles on January 22, 2017 • ( 2 Comments )

Applications are open for the 2018 Spring program I am a historian, not an archaeologist, yet here I am at the Irish Archaeological Field School (IAFS), excavating a medieval friary in Trim, […]

Manuscript Archives (1): Trinity College Dublin

By ThePostgradChronicles on January 14, 2017 • ( 5 Comments )

There is little I enjoy more than getting my hands on a centuries-old piece of vellum and researching the written records of the medieval world. For me this almost always takes the […]

Here goes nothing…

By ThePostgradChronicles on January 11, 2017 • ( 2 Comments )

So the time has finally arrived to get the ball rolling and introduce this little history blog to the world – well, a tiny part of it anyway.

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