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CCASNC's Brave New World
Robert Gallagher and Alice Hicklin, doctoral candidates in ASNC, write:On 16 February, the department hosted its annual postgraduate conference, the Cambridge Colloquium in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and...
View ArticleConference report: 35th California Celtic Conference 2013
Myriah Williams, a doctoral student in ASNC, writes:As we gathered on the patio of Stephens Hall at the University of California, Berkeley, flying champagne corks and a cake aptly decorated with the...
View ArticleNew Website on Medieval Welsh Law (Cyfraith Hywel)
Prof. Paul Russell notes:A new website has been launched on Medieval Welsh law. This examines all aspects of medieval Welsh law, and includes bibliographies, discussions, details about the manuscripts,...
View ArticleDepartmental Open Day 2013
The annual ASNC Departmental Open Day will take place on Wednesday 26th June. Booking is essential, and further details on the structure of the day and how to reserve a place are available here.
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Conference report: 'Converting the Landscape'
Dr Brittany Schorn writes:The ‘Converting the Isles Network’, based in the Department and supported by the Leverhulme Trust, held its fourth colloquium on the 22nd and 23rdof March at Bangor...
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Modern Poets on Viking Poetry - A Reading
Rebecca Merkelbach, a PhD student in ASNC, writes:The evening of Friday 26 April marked the high point and conclusion (at least of the Cambridge part) of Dr Debbie Potts' project ‘Modern Poets on...
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Report: The Orkney Viking Heritage Project Field School
Dr Brittany Schorn writes:From April 14 to April 20, Kirkwall hosted the field school of The Orkney Viking Heritage Project. Eight current (and three former) members of the ASNC Department travelled to...
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Sir Frank Stenton (1880–1967), The Anglo-Saxon Coinage and the Historian
Dr Rory Naismith writes:Sir Frank Stentonwas professor of history at the University of Reading, and a leading scholar of Anglo-Saxon history in the twentieth century. He is best known as the author of...
View ArticleSome recent news
Congratulations to Dr Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough, ASNC alumna and recent PhD graduate, now at the University of Oxford, who has recently been announced as one of Radio 3's New Generation Thinkers....
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Dr Brittany Schorn has been appointed Research Associate on the Interpreting Eddic Poetry project at St John's College Research Centre, University of Oxford, from 1st October 2013.Dr Elizabeth Boyle...
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St Samson Colloquy Report
Dr Caroline Brett writes:At the University of Sydney’s Eighth Australian Conference of Celtic Studies on 11-14 June 2013, Dr Lynette Olson organised a special colloquy on the First Life of St Samson of...
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Anglo-Saxons Documentary Series on BBC4
The ASNC Department has seen some preview clips of this forthcoming series by Michael Wood and we highly recommend it!
View ArticleTurning darkness into light
Dutch graffiti artist, Niels Meulman, has produced art inspired by the Lindisfarne Gospels and the Old Irish poem Pangur Bán, which will be on display in the north of England until the end of...
View ArticleColloquium Report for 'Converting the Isles'
Dr Brittany Schorn writes: The ‘Converting the Isles’ Research Network held its fifth and final colloquium in Cambridge on September 19–21. The theme of ‘The Isles and the Wider World’ was fitting, as...
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ASNCs on the Road: Celtic Literature in Dublin
From ASNC doctoral student Myriah Williams:The sun was out in Dublin last week, as were a good number of Celticists hoping to enlighten or be enlightened on the subject of Genre in Medieval Celtic...
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ASNCs on University Challenge
At least four current and former ASNCs have squared up to Jeremy Paxman on the current series of University Challenge. In the episode broadcast on Monday 14th October, recent ASNC graduates Owain Jones...
View ArticleOctober Computus Workshop
ASNC doctoral student Tony Harris writes:On Monday 28th October ASNaC was treated to a visit by Immo Warntjes, Lecturer in Irish Medieval History at Queen’s University, Belfast. Immo originally worked...
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Cambridge University Festival of Ideas
Myriah Williams writes: On Saturday, the 26th of October the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic participated in the University of Cambridge's Festival of Ideas, an event held annually since...
View ArticleWorkshop Report: ‘The Hagiography of Conversion'
From Robert Gallagher and Sarah Waidler (both ASNC PhD students):The Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic and the Leverhulme Trust Project ‘Converting the Isles’ supported a workshop that took...
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Trip to the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
ASNC undergraduate Maura McKeon writes:On Wednesday 15th January, a group of eighteen committed ASNCs braced themselves for a 7am start to travel to the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth. The...
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