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Those Brutal Middle Ages
I read a scholarly article recently which suggested that medieval warriors suffered from post traumatic stress syndrome, just as modern soldiers do. It also proposed that the fighting men of the middle ages were not the brutal savages that we … Read More
Posted in Anglo-Saxons, Art, Bayeux Tapestry, History, Research
Tagged Angl-Saxons, Art, Battle, history, Medieval, Vikings
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Review: The Ceremony of Innocence, a play written in 1968 by Ronald Ribman
It is Christmas Eve in the year 1013. The king of England, Ethelred, has retired to a cell in a monastery on the Isle of Wight. He is mournful, despairing, and self-exiled from his court and kingdom due to remorse … Read More
Posted in Anglo-Saxons, Art, History, Research, Review, Theatre, UK, Vikings
Tagged Aethelred, Anglo-Saxons, Art, Emma of Normandy, history, Medieval, Review
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Surviving Despite the Odds: The Bayeux Tapestry
The Bayeux Tapestry, as you probably know, is not a tapestry. It’s an embroidery that tells the story of the Battle of Hastings and of the events leading up to it. The Tapestry is 224 feet long and roughly 18 … Read More
Posted in Anglo-Saxons, Art, Bayeux Tapestry, History, Normandy, Research
Tagged Angl-Saxons, Art, Battle, history, Medieval, Normans
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Æthelred II – the Haunted King
On 23 April 1016, King Æthelred II died in London. He was about 50 years old, and he’d ruled England for 38 years. At his death he’d not yet been given the byname, Unræd, (ill-counseled, a play on the Old … Read More
Posted in Anglo-Saxons, Art, Essay, History, Research, UK, Vikings
Tagged Aethelred, Angl-Saxons, Ghost, history, murder, The Price of Blood
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A Pre-Raphaelite Artist & a Church in Wales
“Be sure you go into the church and look at our Burne-Jones window.” I had just arrived in Hawarden, Wales and was being escorted up two flights of stairs to my room in the residence wing of Gladstone’s Library when … Read More
Posted in Art, History, Wales
Tagged architecture, Art, Gladstone's Library, history, Medieval, Pre-Raphaelites, Wales
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