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Christian Cooijmans's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months ago
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Christian Cooijmans deposited Viking Dorestad: A Haven for Hydrarchy? on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months ago
For over a century and a half, the assorted activities of viking hosts in and around the site of Dorestad have been subject to careful deliberation and debate, increasingly illuminating the early Scandinavian influence on this regional riverine landscape. Nevertheless, the material evidence for a ninth-century viking presence inside the settlement…[Read more]
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Keith Ruiter's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months ago
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Christian Cooijmans's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months ago
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Dominik Waßenhoven's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months ago
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Levi Roach's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months ago
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Christian Cooijmans's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months ago
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Dominik Waßenhoven's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 5 years ago
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Alaric Hall deposited ‘I am a virgin woman and a virgin woman’s child’: critical plant theory and the maiden mother conceit in early medieval riddles in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 5 years agoWhile early medieval riddles in Old English and, to a lesser extent, Latin, have been studied extensively from ecocritical perspectives in recent years, the large corpora of riddles in other languages of western Eurasia have yet to benefit from or feed back into these methodological developments. Meanwhile, ecocritical research generally has…[Read more]
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Alaric Hall deposited ‘I am a virgin woman and a virgin woman’s child’: critical plant theory and the maiden mother conceit in early medieval riddles on Humanities Commons 5 years ago
While early medieval riddles in Old English and, to a lesser extent, Latin, have been studied extensively from ecocritical perspectives in recent years, the large corpora of riddles in other languages of western Eurasia have yet to benefit from or feed back into these methodological developments. Meanwhile, ecocritical research generally has…[Read more]
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Alaric Hall deposited Latin and Hebrew analogues to the Old Norse leek-riddle on Humanities Commons 5 years ago
It has been thought that of the forty or so surviving Old Norse riddles, only two have close parallels in the wider international riddle tradition. This note shows, however, that the riddle on the leek in the probably thirteenth-century Heiðreks saga has a close parallel in one of the late antique or early medieval Bern Riddles, on garlic.…[Read more]
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Evina Stein(ova)'s profile was updated on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month ago
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Howard Williams deposited Envisioning Wat’s Dyke in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoIn response to the challenge set by one of us (Williams this volume), this chapter explores new avenues for a public archaeology of Wat’s Dyke. A host of digital and real-world initiatives for public and community engagement are suggested, but the focus is upon one new initiative: the What’s Wat’s Dyke? Heritage Trail which aims to envision Wat’s…[Read more]
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Howard Williams deposited Envisioning Wat’s Dyke in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoIn response to the challenge set by one of us (Williams this volume), this chapter explores new avenues for a public archaeology of Wat’s Dyke. A host of digital and real-world initiatives for public and community engagement are suggested, but the focus is upon one new initiative: the What’s Wat’s Dyke? Heritage Trail which aims to envision Wat’s…[Read more]
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Howard Williams deposited Interpreting Wat’s Dyke in the 21st Century in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoLinear monuments offer special challenges in the context of the public archaeology of frontiers and borderlands. This chapter tackles the interpretive neglect of Britain’s second-longest early medieval earthwork, Wat’s Dyke, showing how its sparse and sporadic archaeological attention is reflected in poor and out-dated public archaeology and her…[Read more]
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Howard Williams deposited Undead Divides: An Archaeology of Walls in The Walking Dead in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoIn 2010, the zombie horror genre gained even greater popularity than the huge following it had previously enjoyed when AMC’s The Walking Dead (TWD) first aired. The chapter surveys the archaeology of this fictional post-apocalyptic material world in the show’s seasons 1–9, focusing on its mural practices and environments which draw upon ancie…[Read more]
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Howard Williams deposited Undead Divides: An Archaeology of Walls in The Walking Dead in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoIn 2010, the zombie horror genre gained even greater popularity than the huge following it had previously enjoyed when AMC’s The Walking Dead (TWD) first aired. The chapter surveys the archaeology of this fictional post-apocalyptic material world in the show’s seasons 1–9, focusing on its mural practices and environments which draw upon ancie…[Read more]
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Howard Williams deposited The biography of borderlands: Old Oswestry hillfort and modern heritage debates in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoResponding to the recently published edited collection exploring the hillfort and landscape context of Old Oswestry (Shropshire, England) by heritage professionals connected to the Hands off Old Oswestry Hillfort heritage protection campaign (Malim and Nash 2020), this chapter reviews and reflects on the significance of the overall…[Read more]
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Howard Williams deposited The biography of borderlands: Old Oswestry hillfort and modern heritage debates in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoResponding to the recently published edited collection exploring the hillfort and landscape context of Old Oswestry (Shropshire, England) by heritage professionals connected to the Hands off Old Oswestry Hillfort heritage protection campaign (Malim and Nash 2020), this chapter reviews and reflects on the significance of the overall…[Read more]
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Howard Williams deposited Public Archaeologies from the Edge in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThe chapter serves to introduce the first-ever book dedicated to public archaeologies of frontiers and borderlands. We identify the hitherto neglect of this critical field which seeks to explore the heritage, public engagements, popular cultures and politics of frontiers and borderlands past and present. We review the 2019 conference organised by…[Read more]
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