Ælfric
in Medieval Studies
P ublished online August 2014 .
Article. Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance History (500 to 1500); Literary Studies (Early and Medieval); Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy; Byzantine and Medieval Art (500 CE to 1400); Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Archaeology. 13617 words.
The homilist Ælfric (c. 950–1010), monk, masspriest, and abbot of Eynsham, is the most significant vernacular prose writer from Anglo-Saxon England by virtue of the quantity and quality of...
Aelred of Rievaulx
in Medieval Studies
P ublished online April 2013 .
Article. Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance History (500 to 1500); Literary Studies (Early and Medieval); Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy; Byzantine and Medieval Art (500 CE to 1400); Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Archaeology. 12970 words.
The most prominent of the Cistercian abbots of 12th-century England, Aelred of Rievaulx (b. 1110–d. 1167), also spelled Ailred or Æthelred, was a popular preacher and a prolific writer,...
Aldhelm of Malmesbury
in Medieval Studies
P ublished online December 2010 .
Article. Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance History (500 to 1500); Literary Studies (Early and Medieval); Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy; Byzantine and Medieval Art (500 CE to 1400); Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Archaeology. 6475 words.
Aldhelm, abbot of Malmesbury (Wiltshire) and then bishop of Sherborne from about 705, was described by Bede, in his Ecclesiastical History (written some twenty-five years after Aldhelm’s...
Alfonso X
in Medieval Studies
P ublished online September 2014 .
Article. Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance History (500 to 1500); Literary Studies (Early and Medieval); Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy; Byzantine and Medieval Art (500 CE to 1400); Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Archaeology. 16175 words.
Alfonso X, king of Castile, León, and Galicia (b. 1221–d. 1284; reigned 1252–1284), the firstborn son of Ferdinand III and his German wife, Beatrix (Elisabeth of Hohenstaufen), has justly...
Alfred the Great
in Medieval Studies
P ublished online December 2010 .
Article. Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance History (500 to 1500); Literary Studies (Early and Medieval); Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy; Byzantine and Medieval Art (500 CE to 1400); Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Archaeology. 8879 words.
The only English monarch to earn the epithet “Great” and who was esteemed highly by the later Victorians who considered him something of a philosopher-king, Alfred (b. 849–d. 899;...
Amber
in The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe
March 2015; p ublished online December 2013 .
Article. Subjects: Archaeology; Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Archaeology; Prehistoric Archaeology. 6301 words.
During the transition to the fourth millennium, large quantities of amber start being distributed over the landscapes of northern and north-eastern Europe. By exploring the handling and use...
Anglo‐Saxon Archaeology and the Public
in The Oxford Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology
March 2011; p ublished online September 2012 .
Article. Subjects: Archaeology; Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Archaeology. 7036 words.
This article mentions certain aspects of the dynamic relationship between Anglo-Saxon archaeology and concentrates on the question of whether formal education has kept pace with these new...
Anglo‐Saxon Crafts
in The Oxford Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology
March 2011; p ublished online September 2012 .
Article. Subjects: Archaeology; Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Archaeology. 7618 words.
This article provides an overview of Anglo-Saxon crafts and refers to some of the issues involved. Lacking the screw thread, the Anglo-Saxon craftsmen would have made extensive use of...
Anglo‐Saxon Fields
in The Oxford Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology
March 2011; p ublished online September 2012 .
Article. Subjects: Archaeology; Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Archaeology. 10020 words.
This article addresses how and when the small, rectilinear or irregular fields of Roman Britain were transformed into the open and common fields of medieval England. Furthermore, the sparse...
Anglo‐Saxon Migration and the Molecular Evidence
in The Oxford Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology
March 2011; p ublished online September 2012 .
Article. Subjects: Archaeology; Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Archaeology. 5123 words.
This article discusses that there are many pitfalls in evaluating the significance and reliability of molecular data that are mainly due to the uncontrolled context in which past biological...
