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The 'Viking' Settlement of Northumbria in Archaeology
Large and Archaeologically Distinctive, or Invisible?
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Dec 27, 2022
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'Toad Testicles' and 'Boar-Biter': The Nicknames of Winchester, c.1110.
A colourful and shocking set of nicknames in early medieval Winchester leave historians as confused as they are amused; what might they have meant?
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Nov 23, 2022
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'Toad Testicles' and 'Boar-Biter': The Nicknames of Winchester, c.1110.
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Viking Trade Weights - Danelaw Economics and Power
Explaining Viking Trade Weights 'Viking-Age’ trade weights are a widely attested phenomena in Scandinavia, but equally so in England. Manufactured in a…
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Jan 8
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Eadric 'the Wild' - post-Conquest rebel and outlaw
Eadric Silvaticus (‘the wild’), who rebelled against king William I in the years after the Norman Conquest of 1066, has become something of a mythical…
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Nov 29, 2022
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Thegnly buildings before the Norman Conquest
How was the built environment used to express power and status?
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Jan 22
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Eadwine and Wulfgar - monks behaving badly
I am terribly bored by the history of great people. Wars and politics, currency reforms, royal marriages, fiscal policy, state-building, trade treaties…
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Dec 14, 2022
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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.
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Jan 14
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'New'/Processual Archaeology
An Introduction
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Dec 30, 2022
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Hereward 'the Wake' and his companions
Alongside Eadric ‘the Wild’, Hereward ‘the Wake’ occupies a semi-mythological status. Rising in rebellion in 1070 against Norman occupation following…
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Dec 22, 2022
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Nicknames in the Viking settlement of Iceland
I’ve recently rediscovered a recording of the first ever conference paper I gave, almost two years ago. It focused on the question of nicknames in the…
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Jan 2
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Æthelred 'the Unready'
If we’re going to start thinking seriously about nicknames as a historical source, monarchs are a good place to start. For one, we have far more…
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Nov 20, 2022
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Esgar ‘the Crippled’ - disability before the Norman Conquest
The Exon Domesday is the surviving record of an earlier stage of the Domesday survey of England in 1086, covering a circuit of the South-West of…
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Dec 8, 2022
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