Important New Anglo-Saxon Coin: Update
The rare penny of Ætheberht II reported here last month has now been given on long-term loan to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, by a private collector. It will go on display to the public shortly.
View ArticleThe Welsh Chronicles: A Symposium
From ASNC graduate student and symposium organiser Ben Guy:On Saturday 9th August, Bangor University hosted the first of what will hopefully be a series of small symposia dedicated to the study of the...
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Festival of Ideas, October 22‒25
One week into the new term, it's time to announce the first big ASNC event of the year. This is our now traditional involvement with the University of Cambridge Festival of Ideas, an annual exploration...
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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...
View ArticleSutton Trust Summer School 2015
From 18 - 21 August, the Department will be hosting its annual Sutton Trust Summer School in Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic. The Summer School is held in association with the Sutton Trust, a...
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Sagas and Space: the 16th International Saga Conference, Universities of...
Every three years the Old Norse community descends upon a city (or two) for the International Saga Conference. This summer brought us to the universities of Zürich and Basel for a week’s worth of...
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Further Developments in the Black Book of Carmarthen Research
Myriah Williams writes Interest generated in research on the Black Book of Carmarthen (NLW MS Peniarth 1) resulted last week in an international collaboration between Dr Gregory Heyworth, director of...
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