Love or Law: Viking Foundations of Medieval English Dispute Settlement

Beyond the battlefield lies a story of ambition, upheaval and reinvention. Spanning the generations before and after 1066, this exhibition traces the impac

Love or Law: Viking Foundations of Medieval English Dispute Settlement

The first material evidence of the Schola Saxonum suggests the Anglo-Saxons in Rome were a thriving and valued expat community.

It’s easy to say now that paying the Vikings to go away ‘didn’t work’. But this obscures the fact paying off one Viking band didn’t ensure another would stop coming.

Archaeologists say the discovery suggests possible trading links between Viking and Anglo-Saxons.

Towards and beyond the ‘Fall’: rethinking Rome’s end

Abstract. This article seeks to address the underexplored role of language as a marker of identity in the early medieval period by focusing on England in t

Shane McLeod's argues convincingly for royal leadership of the Viking Great/Heathen Army

Everyone knows the importance of relics for early medieval Christianity. But a relic is only valuable if it's identifiable, otherwise it's just a fragment of bone, cloth or stone. In other words, ever...

Viking armies introduced a bullion economy to 9th-century Britain and Ireland in which transactions were facilitated through the use of balances and weights. This paper presents the first comprehensiv...

The eighth-century king Offa of Mercia retains a place in the collective memory of both the English and the Welsh as the instigator of the great dyke that

This year I (properly) attended the International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds again. By “properly attended”, I mean I presented a paper and went to other sessions like …

Early Medieval Europe is an interdisciplinary medieval studies journal covering European history from the fall of the Roman Empire up until the 11th century.

This episode of The Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast takes a bird’s eye view of the global medieval world, following the trade and giving of arctic gyrfalcons across vast distances. Caitlin, Sam, Bjø...

The walls of the medieval chapel in the Agricola Tower at Chester Castle were richly painted around 1240 with scenes including miracles of the Virgin Mary and St Edward the Confessor. From the fragmen...

Precious few witnesses for the veneration of saints south of the Humber survive from before the middle of the tenth century. Indeed, out of the twenty-seve

(image source: SSRN ) Abstract: The Supreme Court’s recent turn to history and tradition has prompted a renewed interest in the far distan...

An Interview with Johannes Boehm

From the empire-wide messaging in his minting, to the private dialogue, both penned and subliminal through his iconography, Frederick Barbarossa stood as both one of the greatest Hellenophiles followi...

Teachers and students of Medieval Latin often struggle to find the same range of learning materials available for Classical Latin. In this guide, Brigid Ehrmantraut highlights textbooks, anthologies, ...

The Emperor’s Gift: Power and Legitimacy across the Late Roman Frontier

Medieval Irish bees had a legal status because they were classified as domestic livestock.