A brief historical interpretation based upon the excavations carried out at the Northumbrian ecclesiastical site at Auldhame in East Lothian.

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.

This paper attempts to look at the evidence for English ideas about their own national origins in the period before Bede.

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.

A discussion of the educational context of Columbanus in and around Bangor and Moville in the sixth century.

A chapter in volume 1 of the Cambridge History of Ireland

Historians are often confronted with the challenge of defining words or ideas in an historically appropriate manner. Language evolves; words lose some meanings and gain others over time, and it is important, when examining the past, for the historian to ensure that their analysis accurately reflects the language in use during the chosen period of…[Read more]

The tale of Óðinn and Rindr is a complex one, but in its version found in the
early thirteenth-century Gesta Danorum, we can see how Óðinn’s gender fluidity
has become simplified into transvestism. From a being capable of changing
gender, Óðinn now simply adopts the disguise of a woman. With this disguise,
Óðinn rapes the woman Rindr in order…[Read more]