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Looking Up: The Faces of Oxford

Taking the time to pause, and look up

Jul 5 •

October 2023

'Gather his worms to your bosom': the 1094 letter of Anselm to Gunhilda

In the hunt for early medieval nicknames throughout my PhD research, I’m forced to leaf through a number of sources that I’m less familiar with. I’ve…

Oct 2, 2023 •

July 2023

A History of English Placenames and Where They Came From (John Moss): A Review.

This review originally appeared in the Open Access journal Names, available online here. If you would like your own copy of John Moss’ A History of…

Jul 26, 2023 •

Textiles Before the Norman Conquest

A super short introduction to the use of textiles pre-Conquest England, as a method of expressing power and status. Enjoy!

Jul 25, 2023 •

May 2023

'The Sardine' and 'Wolf's Arse': Animal Nicknames in Early Medieval England

Any study of medieval nicknames is a complex act of interpretation; what did these nicknames ‘mean’?

May 26, 2023 •

April 2023

Eyes on the Ball(s): Testicle Nicknames in Early Medieval England

We return this week to the endlessly amusing, and often entirely incomprehensible, nicknames of early medieval England

Apr 23, 2023 •

Great British Family Names and Their History (John Moss): A Review

This review originally appeared in the Open Access journal Names, available online here. If you would like your own copy of John Moss’ Great British…

Apr 19, 2023 •

March 2023

Hewald 'the White' and Hewald 'the Black': seventh century missionaries and martyrs

In the hunt for pre-Conquest nicknames, it’s easy to be drawn in by the amusing and extreme examples: the Alfred ‘Toad Testicles’ of the world.

Mar 28, 2023 •

February 2023

‘Toad Testicles’, ‘Foul-Beard’ and ‘Broad-Arse’: Nicknames Before the Norman Conquest

This article appears in the March edition of HistoryToday, a public history magazine available here https://www.historytoday.com/shop/buy-current-issue.

Feb 16, 2023 •

Westfield Farm – a High-status ‘Anglo-Saxon’ Female Burial

We hear an awful lot about the large-scale male ‘Princely’ burial of the early seventh century; Sutton Hoo, Snape, and Prittlewell dominate the…

Feb 8, 2023 •

January 2023

Thegnly buildings before the Norman Conquest

How was the built environment used to express power and status?

Jan 22, 2023 •

Food as Status before the Norman Conquest

A (mercifully) short post today, looking at the remarkably consistent use of food to express power by the elite before the Norman Conquest.

Jan 14, 2023 •

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