One of the events that Bede mentions in the Ecclesiastical History that has always fascinated me is a meeting between Bede and Adomnan in 703. Bede never specifically says that he met Adomnan, but he does report of a visit by Adomnan to Wearmouth-Jarrow in the year before Adomnan’s death. We know that Adomnan died [...]
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17 May
2009 Jarrow Lecture
This Friday, May 22 will be the annual Jarrow Lecture held at Bede’s World/St Paul’s Church Jarrow. The speaker this year is Barbara Yorke whose lecture will be on “Rex Doctissimus: Bede and King Aldfrith of Northumbria”. It begins at 7:30 pm and is open to everyone.
I am quite jealous. I would go out [...]
9 May
Kzoo Book Report
One of the highlights of the International Congress on Medieval Studies, better known as Kzoo, is the book exhibit. The book exhibit lived up to its usual reputation. Maybe it was my imagination or the time of day I was there, but it seemed a little thin. I went twice on Friday and then to [...]
10 Apr
FB: The Mystery of Urbs Iudeu
James Fraser has written an interesting article on a very important seventh century English fortress called Urbs Iudeu. Fraser notes that the Urbs Iudeu is unlikely to be one of the better known named places on the Firth of Forth, this fortress gave its name to the firth itself, or took its name from the [...]
13 Mar
Building (and rebuilding) paradigms
So I’m reading Fraser’s From Caledonia to Pictland, and I’ve got lots of talking points so to speak. I’m going to bring them up in what ever order I feel like writing about so they may jump around a bit. He has mentioned apostasy twice in ways that really made me think.
First in discussing Patrick’s [...]
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