Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic: Recent submissions
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Gender and Genre in Medieval Chivalric Rímur
The increasing influence of continental chivalric romances on medieval Icelandic and Norwegian literature had a profound effect on discourses of gender in Norse texts, reflected in the wave of romance translations and ... -
Birds and Humans in the Old Norse World, c. 600-1500 AD
The central aim of this thesis is to explore the complexities of human-bird coexistence in Scandinavia and the Norse North Atlantic from 600-1500 AD, primarily focusing on the period c. 800-1400 within this time period. ... -
Competing Influences: Francia, Rome and the English in the Seventh Century
Francia and Rome loom large in English history in the seventh century. Both are visible in the evangelization of the English in the first half of the century, and their interaction is exemplified by Bishop Wilfrid’s career ... -
'Second-Stage' Iorwerth: Textual Change and Development in Medieval Welsh Legal Manuscripts
This thesis explores a set of legal manuscripts from medieval Wales, known as the Iorwerth recension. These manuscripts are placed in their historical and material settings, and a view of the development of the text is ...
