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Visiting Saints and Dragons
Over the next few days we'll be publishing some reports from this year's Festival of Ideas, which has been another big success for the department. Here's the first, from ASNC graduate student Julianne...
View ArticleFestival of Ideas 2014: a visitor's impression
Sandra Leaton-Gray reports on the ASNC Festival of Ideas.
View ArticleThe Seventh Bangor Colloquium on Medieval Wales, 7-9 November 2014
ASNC MPhil student Rebecca Thomas writes:The journey may have been somewhat tedious, and the sky menacingly dark on arrival, but such trivial matters were soon forgotten in face of a fantastic weekend...
View ArticleA hitherto unknown manuscript of Rimbert’s Vita Anskarii in Kiel
by Dr Paul Gazzoli, British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow When modern people read a medieval text, they do so through a modern edition, which has been put together through consultation of the...
View Article'A Pamphlet Composed to Bolster a Fiction'? St Eadburg and Canterbury
Alumnae and alumni of the department who read CAM magazine will happily have absorbed the article by Dr Rosalind Love in this term's issue. For everyone else, we point you to the magazine's website,...
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'Cake Class' Goes to the UL: medieval Welsh manuscripts in Cambridge
The Medieval Welsh Reading Group, affectionately known as Cake Class, took a trip this week across West Road and over to the University Library, where among the treasures of that institution reside a...
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'Songs of Donegal and other places': A Performance of sean-nós by Lillis Ó...
5 March 2015, ASNC Common Room, 5-6pm A session of traditional Irish music with former ASNC student Andrea Palandri and Irish harpist Colm McGonigle will follow the performance.The Department of...
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The Lenborough Hoard
Dr Rory Naismith writes:This week, a selection of items from the Lenborough hoard goes on display at the British Museum. It is the largest coin hoard ever to be considered under the Treasure Act of...
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CCASNC 2015
Caitlin Ellis, a doctoral candidate in ASNC and president of the CCASNC committee, writes:Our annual graduate-led conference, the Cambridge Colloquium in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic (CCASNC), took...
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A Centenary: David Jones, Y Gododdin and the Great War
When Varsity finally get round to asking me about my favourite piece of art in Cambridge, I’ll say ‘Vexilla Regis, by David Jones’. It’s on the ground floor in the house at Kettle’s Yard, just behind...
View ArticleUndiscovered poems in the Black Book of Carmarthen?
Exciting news from the National Library of Wales, where ASNC doctoral student Myriah Williams, and her supervisor Professor Paul Russell, have been working a thirteenth-century manuscript, the Black...
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Modern Irish events in ASNC, March 2015
'Songs of Donegal and other places': A Performance by Dr. Lillis Ó LaoireAs part of the international celebration of Seachtain na Gaeilge (1-17 March), Dr. Lillis Ó Laoire, an accomplished sean-nós...
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Announcement and Invitation: Scannáin Gaeilge / Irish Films
This is an open invitation to students, staff and members of the public who would like to view a few Irish language (subtitled) / bilingual films during Easter Term. The films will be shown in the...
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Mission, Empire and the North: The Archdiocese of Hamburg-Bremen, c. 830–c. 1200
Dr Paul Gazzoli writes: In connection with my British Academy-funded research project to produce a new edition of Rimbert’s Life of Anskar, I and Dr Erik Niblaeus of Durham University are hosting a...
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Oxford-Cambridge Celtic Colloquium
Myriah Williams writes:Established in 1996, the Oxford-Cambridge Celtic Colloquium celebrated its 20th meeting on May 16th at Jesus College, Oxford. A postgraduate conference, the Colloquium is...
View ArticleCOLSONOEL conference report
From ASNC doctoral students Rebecca Merkelbach and Caitlin Ellis: This year, it was Cambridge’s turn to host the annual Cambridge Oxford London Symposium in Old Norse, Old English and Latin on Friday,...
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A ‘new’ manuscript of the Life of Anskar in Stockholm
Dr Paul Gazzoli writes:Following up from my previous announcement of a new manuscript, I can now report on another manuscript of Rimbert’s Life of Anskar, this one the first Latin manuscript of the...
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Out of the Margins and Into the Media
Waiting to be interviewed on BBC Radio Wales.Myriah Williams writes:The last link I added to my list was on the 25thof May. It was to a Wordpress blog which had been published on the 19th of that...
View ArticleNorth Britons on BBC Radio 4
Those of you familiar with the northern reaches of the M6 will doubtless have seen signposts to the Rheged Centre. In this afternoon's edition of Making History, historian Tim Clarkson (author of Men...
View ArticleGeiriadur Prifysgol Cymru/A Dictionary of the Welsh Language goes online
Silva Nurmio writes: 26 June 2014 saw the long-awaited launch of Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru/A Dictionary of the Welsh Language (GPC) online. The GPC is the standard historical dictionary of the Welsh...
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