Instead of preventing protest, deportations on political grounds could – under certain
circumstances – help to spread dissent. Accordingly, the spaces deportees were sent
became fertile ground for new coalitions. Analysing such spaces furthers our understanding
of how resistance may be contained, dispersed and re-constituted. The main
part of…[Read more]

Veit Harlan zählte zu den wichtigsten Regisseuren des Nationalsozialismus, insbesondere mit seinem antisemitischen Propagandafilm „Jud Süss“. Nach dem Krieg musste sich Harlan wegen Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit vor Gericht verantworten, wurde jedoch aus Mangel an Beweisen 1950 freigesprochen und konnte seine Regietätigkeit fortse…[Read more]

The plague doctors’ masks on the frontispiece of the “Leviathan”, John Locke’s empty land, the photographs by Carleton Watkins, a military policeman’s protective mask, the colonial history of the deportation camps, the plague policies and the Sans-Papiers – these are the seemingly disparate pieces that Francesca Falk assembles into a mosaic to…[Read more]

In this essay Queen Margaret’s curses in Richard III become part of a feminist ethics on the early modern stage. As a parrhesiast, in Foucault’s terms, Margaret speaks truth to power and claims a right of citizenship. That Margaret elicits universal revulsion from the other characters while also holding a unique, though not untroubled, pos…[Read more]

Throughout the ninth and early tenth centuries, the maritime and riverine landscapes of northwestern Francia had been subject to recurrent acts of viking aggression. Resonating in the minds of many consecutive Netherlandish authors, these agents continued to feature in an extensive regional corpus of late medieval historiography. Whilst many…[Read more]

Book review of a recent book on the reception of late antiquity.

“The Microcosmic Imaginary in Rabbinic Midrash,” BeDarkhei Shalom, Studies in Jewish Thought Presented to Prof. Shalom Rosenberg, B. Ish-Shalom (ed.), Jerusalem: Beit Morasha, 205-207 (Hebrew

This is the regular issue of the journal INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TAMIL LANGUAGE AND LITERARY STUDIES (E-ISSN: 2581-7140), VOL – 2: ISSUE – 2, JANUARY 2020. There are 21 scholarly articles in English, 21 of them in Tamil Language and one in English.

Review article on five recent books relating to late Latin poetry

Review article on five recent books relating to late Latin poetry

An article that contrasts the role of gift giving in Old English poems like Beowulf and The Battle of Maldon to Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.

Alfred the Great (1969) was the first, and remains the only, feature-length film portraying the West Saxon king and his conflicts with the Danes. Forty-seven years later, Bernard Cornwell’s novels have been adapted for television as The Last Kingdom (2015–). Despite being fictional adaptions of historical events, and despite the considerable sep…[Read more]

The public archaeology of death has frequently focused on the ethics and practices of excavating, displaying and curating human remains and mortuary contexts. Yet the focus of investigation is often restricted to whole, articulated bodies and tangible, complete monuments. Far fewer discussions have tackled the complex challenges of engaging the…[Read more]

This introductory chapter identifies the principal issues and themes in the public archaeology of the Early Middle Ages, exploring the specific and compelling challenges of investigating and evaluating the early medieval past in contemporary society mediated by archaeology. In doing so, we review and contextualise the contributions to the 3rd…[Read more]

How museums and heritage sites in England display the early medieval past is the focus of academic and public interest and debate. Despite ever-pressured budgets and limited resources, the stories told about the early medieval past in these environments are of key importance for the story of this island, and have become increasingly important in…[Read more]

Opening the first volume of a new open-access peer-reviewed academic publication, we are pleased to introduce the Offa’s Dyke Journal. This venture stems from the activities of the Offa’s Dyke Collaboratory, a research network founded in April 2017 to foster and support new research on the monuments and landscapes of the Anglo-Welsh bor…[Read more]

The chapter outlines the rationale for the 2nd University of Chester Archaeology Student Conference – Archaeo-Engage: Engaging Communities in Archaeology. It serves as a companion chapter to this book’s Introduction. It reviews and contextualises the student presentations and keynote talks in relation to key current debates in public arc…[Read more]

The author proposes fairy-tale logic as a mode of magical thinking typified by the belief that certain functions, fulfilled correctly and in the right order, lead to predictable outcomes. Mapping similarities in implicit reasoning within “Beauty and the Beast,” the reality television program Beauty and the Geek (2005-08), and the misogynistic nar…[Read more]