Theses - Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic
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Cumann Comnae: Constructing Christian Identities in The Book of Lismore’s Homiletic Saints’ Lives
(2019-10-26)Building from the premise that hagiographical texts provide important literary accounts of affective religious experiences in the medieval centuries, this dissertation examines the nine homiletic saints’ lives in the ... -
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 ...
