Theses - Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic
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Making Miracles in Central Medieval England
(2019-10-26)This thesis is concerned with the production of miracles in the cult of the saints, examining miracle narratives from English cults produced between 970 and 1170. In particular, I focus on the actions taken by people which ... -
‘And eall worulde gesceaft’: Re-Reading the Natural World in Old English Biblical Poetry
(2019-10-26)This study argues that the hybrid nature of Old English biblical poetry is evident in its complex representation of the natural world — which is shaped by a mesh of traditions including biblical source material, Old English ... -
The Regional Communities of Viking Age Norway and their Contribution to Socio-Political Dynamics, c. 901050
(2019-07-01)Historical analysis of the sociopolitical processes that took place in Scandinavia in the last 150 years of the Viking Age has long been preoccupied with the formation of the medieval precursors to Norway, Denmark and ... -
Kinship and Narrative in Old Norse Literature: Parent-Child Relations in Mythic-Heroic Texts
(2019-05-18)The thesis explores the imaginative depiction of parent-child relations in the Poetic Edda, Snorra Edda and the fornaldarsaga corpus, with the aim of illuminating both the role of kinship in shaping Old Norse narrative and ...
