Shedding Light on a Dark Age: Britain in the Forth and Fifth Centuries
This paper seeks to examine the fourth and fifth centuries in Britain in order to address the issue of collapse versus continuity after the end of the Roman state.
View ArticleClovis: How Barbaric, How Pagan?
The mainstream portrait of Clovis, still dominant in English and American writing, derives its many negative features from secondary sources written a half-century or more after his death and abounding...
View ArticleThe Gallic Aristocracy and the Roman Imperial government in the fifth century...
The recovery, however, proved to be too superficial for the continuing prosperity of either Gaul or the Western Roman Empire. The problems of the imperial government continued with little relief. The...
View ArticleA Distant World: Russian Relations with Europe Before Peter the Great
Despite their isolation and poverty, the Slavic plowmen succeeded in settling this unforgiving region, expanding their numbers, and, most importantly, creating the beginnings of a trading network along...
View ArticleEcclesiastics and Ascetics: Finding Spiritual Authority in Fifth and Sixth...
In the context of ongoing christological controversy and division within eastern Christianity, the relationship between ecclesiastic and ascetic authority is a fruitful avenue of investigation.
View ArticleNew Testament from the oldest complete Bible available online for the first time
The New Testament volume from one of the British Library’s most valuable treasures, Codex Alexandrinus, has been made available online for the first time on the British Library’s website.
View ArticleRebaptism as a Ritual of Cultural Integration in Vandal Africa
Midway through the first book of his History of the Vandal Persecution, Victor of Vita narrates the story of a Vandal master who deemed it appropriate to allow his two Roman slaves, Martinianus and...
View ArticleThe British Kingdom of Lindsey
The first piece of evidence which offers support for the above contention comes from the kingdom-name ‘Lindsey’ itself. Two forms of this name exist in Anglo-Saxon sources, reflecting two different Old...
View ArticleBrigit: Goddess, Saint, ‘Holy Woman,’ and Bone of Contention
Brigit1 and Patrick, two saints from the beginnings of Christianity in Ireland in the fifth century CE, retain their popularity with Catholic Christians to this day.
View ArticleSettlement and Taxes: the Vandals in North Africa
With the Vandals, the migration of Northern barbarians flowed into a region that had of course been weakened by innumerable internal crises but was still essentially wealthy, productive and well...
View ArticleThe Anglo-Saxon influence on Romano-Britain : research past and present
The Romano-British to Anglo-Saxon transition in Britain is one of the most striking transitions seen in the archaeological record. Changes in burial practice between these periods, along with...
View ArticleBasiliscus the Boy-Emperor
Under the year 475 Victor recounts a unique version of the last days of the young emperor Leo II, the son of Zeno and Ariadne, grandson of the emperor Leo I and his wife Verina.The post Basiliscus the...
View ArticleWas Theoderic a Great Builder?
Or was he a great recycler?The post Was Theoderic a Great Builder? appeared first on Medievalists.net.
View ArticleFifth-century massacre discovered by Swedish archaeologists
Archaeologists in Sweden have uncovered the site where hundreds of people may have been killed in a brutal massacre. The post Fifth-century massacre discovered by Swedish archaeologists appeared first...
View ArticleIllustrated Octateuch Manuscripts: A Byzantine Phenomenon
Illustrated Octateuch Manuscripts: A Byzantine Phenomenon John Lowden The Old Testament in Byzantium: Selected papers from a symposium held Dec. 2006, Dumbarton Oaks Abstract The first recorded use of...
View ArticleThe Enigma of the Picts
Yet superficially the subject does not seem so problematical. The task in hand is that of identifying the general political, linguistic and cultural personality of the people, or peoples, who lived to...
View ArticleCrisis of Legitimacy: Honorius, Galla Placidia, and the Struggles for Control...
This dissertation offers a new analytical narrative of the years from 405 to 425 C.E., a period which extends from the final phase of the general Stilicho’s control over the administration of the...
View ArticleMerovingian and Carolingian Empires: An Analysis of Their Strengths and...
In this research paper I will analyze the achievements and the destruction of the Merovingian Empire to demonstrate how both provide a basic structure of government for the Carolingians to adopt.The...
View ArticleTheoderic the Great vs. Boethius: Tensions in Italy in the Late 5th and Early...
In 524AD the Roman senator Boethius was executed for committing treason against Theoderic the Great, the ruling gothic king in Italy. Boethius was never given a trial, and the charge of treason may...
View ArticleTheodora, Aetius of Amida, and Procopius: Some Possible Connections
Behind the purported facts of Theodora’s career as a common prostitute and later as empress are the hidden details of what we might call feminine pharmacology: what were the drugs used by prostitutes...
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