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Introduction: Unlike the generations of Chinese poets preceding them, poets who lived after the High Tang Period were compelled to compare the excellence of their works with their forerunners. Realizing ...

How old is the trade in Welsh cattle? According to the standard authority, Wales before the Edwardian conquest was a predominantly pastoral country. It imported iron, cloth, salt, and much of its corn; ...

Synopsis: Medieval and modern commentators on events in Francia in the middle of the eighth century have thus disagreed both about the role of the Pope and the nature of Carolingian kingship. Their readings, ...

Introduction: In the early Middle Ages it was men who, with their resort to armed might, were the plunderers of church property, though some among them did contribute to its increase. Women, and especially widows, were more positively involved with the church, as givers rather than as receivers.

The Celtic revival of the 1890s and the opening years of the 20th century was marked by a series of works, poems, fiction and dramas, published under the name of Fiona MacLeod, supposedly a peasant woman living in the Hebrides. ...

Introduction: The character and workings of the laws issued by the ‘barbarian’ kings who replaced the Roman authorities in the western provinces in the fifth and early sixth centuries have long been the subject of debate. ...

Introduction: While the study of early medieval kingship and king-making rites has generated an extensive literature, scholarship on contemporary queenship has concentrated on themes of authority and power in religious and political contexts, and queen-making rites have received only passing mention...

While there has been mounting curiosity among Western scholars about Japanese animation as a significant pop culture form, less attention has been devoted to the interest Japanese artists have in the Western middle ages. ...

The sixty-six lines of the Cotton Maxims (Maxims II) consist of a series of so-called gnomic verses which are supposed to be “pieces of universally accepted knowledge in the form of versified sentences.” ...

My Korean translation of Beowulf was primarily designed to introduce Korean readers to 1) the world of western epic in which heroism is highly praised 2) the beauty and subtlety of ‘winged words’ which are embedded in compound nouns, epithet, formulaic expression, and appositive style. ...

At the end of the ninth century King Alfred the Great charged the most learned scholars of his day with the task of translating Latin texts into the English vernacular, a project Alfred viewed as central ...