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This essay reflects on the developments in our understanding of the Pictish Church since Kathleen Hughes visited the topic half a century ago.
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A brief historical interpretation based upon the excavations carried out at the Northumbrian ecclesiastical site at Auldhame in East Lothian.
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Alex Woolf deposited Plebs: Concepts of Community among Late Antique Britons. on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months ago
This chapter looks at the use of the word plebs in a number of Late Antique texts thought to be written by Britons and discusses what this reveals about the social and ecclesiastical conditions amongst the Britons in the fifth and sixth centuries.
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This paper attempts to look at the evidence for English ideas about their own national origins in the period before Bede.
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This short note cautions against essentialist ways of thinking about the Picts and reminds readers that the term itself is an exonym and that there is little or no evidence that the people we call Picts had any self identification as a group.
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A discussion of the educational context of Columbanus in and around Bangor and Moville in the sixth century.
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A chapter in volume 1 of the Cambridge History of Ireland
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Alex Woolf's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months ago
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James M. Harland deposited Memories of migration? The ‘Anglo-Saxon’ burial costume of the fifth century AD in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoIt is often claimed that the mortuary traditions that appeared in lowland Britain in the fifth century AD are an expression of new forms of ethnic identity, based on the putative memorialisation of a ‘Germanic’ heritage. This article considers the empirical basis for this assertion and evaluates it in the light of previously proposed ethnic con…[Read more]
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James M. Harland deposited Memories of migration? The ‘Anglo-Saxon’ burial costume of the fifth century AD in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoIt is often claimed that the mortuary traditions that appeared in lowland Britain in the fifth century AD are an expression of new forms of ethnic identity, based on the putative memorialisation of a ‘Germanic’ heritage. This article considers the empirical basis for this assertion and evaluates it in the light of previously proposed ethnic con…[Read more]
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James M. Harland deposited Memories of migration? The ‘Anglo-Saxon’ burial costume of the fifth century AD in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoIt is often claimed that the mortuary traditions that appeared in lowland Britain in the fifth century AD are an expression of new forms of ethnic identity, based on the putative memorialisation of a ‘Germanic’ heritage. This article considers the empirical basis for this assertion and evaluates it in the light of previously proposed ethnic con…[Read more]
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James M. Harland deposited Memories of migration? The ‘Anglo-Saxon’ burial costume of the fifth century AD in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoIt is often claimed that the mortuary traditions that appeared in lowland Britain in the fifth century AD are an expression of new forms of ethnic identity, based on the putative memorialisation of a ‘Germanic’ heritage. This article considers the empirical basis for this assertion and evaluates it in the light of previously proposed ethnic con…[Read more]
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James M. Harland deposited Memories of migration? The ‘Anglo-Saxon’ burial costume of the fifth century AD in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoIt is often claimed that the mortuary traditions that appeared in lowland Britain in the fifth century AD are an expression of new forms of ethnic identity, based on the putative memorialisation of a ‘Germanic’ heritage. This article considers the empirical basis for this assertion and evaluates it in the light of previously proposed ethnic con…[Read more]
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James M. Harland deposited Memories of migration? The ‘Anglo-Saxon’ burial costume of the fifth century AD on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months ago
It is often claimed that the mortuary traditions that appeared in lowland Britain in the fifth century AD are an expression of new forms of ethnic identity, based on the putative memorialisation of a ‘Germanic’ heritage. This article considers the empirical basis for this assertion and evaluates it in the light of previously proposed ethnic con…[Read more]
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James M. Harland's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months ago
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Evina Stein(ova)'s profile was updated on Humanities Commons 5 years, 8 months ago
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Anna Dorofeeva's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months ago
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Ellen Muehlberger's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months ago
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Andrew Jacobs deposited “This Piece of Parchment Will Shake the World”: The Mystery of Mar Saba and the Evangelical Prototype of a Secular Fiction Genre in the group
Ancient Jew Review on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThe 1940 evangelical novel The Mystery of Mar Saba by James H. Hunter shares with a later, secular genre of novels I call gospel thrillers a common plot (the discovery of a new gospel from the first century and a race to prove or disprove its authenticity) but also common anxieties about biblical authority mapped onto geopolitical, theological,…[Read more]
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Andrew Jacobs's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months ago
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