Results 51 to 60 of about 808 (183)
The Transnational Viking: The Role of the Viking in Sweden, the United States, and Swedish America
Journal of Transnational American Studies, 2016 This article deals with how Vikings have been used as symbols and historical representations in Sweden, the United Sates, and Swedish America during the 19th and 20th centuries. Three usages of the Vikings are isolated.
Dag Blanck
doaj +1 more source
The Acts of Eadburg: drypoint additions to Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30
Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.In 1913, two drypoint additions were identified in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30 (SS30), an eighth‐century Southumbrian copy of the Acts of the Apostles. It was suggested that these additions, cut into the membrane of p. 47, were abbreviations of the Old English female name, Eadburg. Just over a century later, many more drypoint markings
Jessica Hendy‐Hodgkinson
wiley +1 more source
Studying some aspects of the viking age in english-language historiography
Известия высших учебных заведений. Поволжский регион: Гуманитарные наукиBackground. The topic of the research is relevant due to the fact that Russian scholarship has so far paid little attention to the problem of updating the historiographical experience of English-language authors on the particular issues of the Viking Age.
D.G. Smyattskij
doaj +1 more source
The caliph and the falcons: a ninth‐century history from Iceland to Iraq
Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.In the late ninth and early tenth centuries, an extraordinary number of falcons were given to the ʿAbbāsid caliphs in Baghdad, many of which were white. Gifts from competing dynasties in the northern provinces of the Caliphate, at least some of these birds were almost certainly gyrfalcons from near the Arctic Circle.
Caitlin Ellis, Sam Ottewill‐Soulsby
wiley +1 more source
A Critical Analysis of Immersive Environments: A Methodology for Museum Education
International Journal of Art &Design Education, EarlyView.Abstract Due to the COVID‐19 pandemic, museum professionals have adopted various technological resources that have expanded museums into new virtual spaces. These virtual spaces do much more than simply communicate information to visitors and attract them to visit the museum physically: they offer new teaching and learning contexts.
Emma June Huebner
wiley +1 more source
The Greenland–Scotland Ridge in a Changing Ocean: Time to Act?
Marine Ecology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Greenland–Scotland Ridge is a submarine mountain that rises up to 500 m below the sea surface and extends from the east coast of Greenland to the continental shelf of Iceland and across the Faroe Islands to Scotland. The ridge not only separates deeper ocean basins on either side, that is, the North Atlantic and Arctic oceans, but also ...
Christophe Pampoulie +2 more
wiley +1 more source
Diálogos, 2016 Resumo: Meu objetivo aqui é indagar como devemos entender a literatura das sagas, textos em prosa islandeses da Idade Medía; O ápice da produção de sagas ocorreu entre a segunda metade do século XIII e a primeira metade do XIV.
Santiago Barreiro
doaj +3 more sources
Automation and Augmentation in Theological Perspective
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract AI enables forms of automation that threaten unemployment and deskilling, eliminating important opportunities for the development of virtue. The concomitant loss of virtue and meaningful employment makes it a theological problem from the perspective of Catholic social teaching and theological anthropology.
Paul Scherz
wiley +1 more source
The Vikings, victims of their own success?
Danish Journal of Archaeology, 2015 The Viking age as a time of adventures and violence never ceases to fascinate the public. Both aspects remain central to the definitions of the period which can be found in recent introductions to the topic.
Sarah Croix
doaj +1 more source
From Everyman to Hamlet: A Distant Reading
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract The sixteenth century sees English drama move from Everyman to Hamlet: from religious to secular subject matter and from personified abstractions to characters bearing proper names. Most modern scholarship has explained this transformation in terms originating in the work of Jacob Burckhardt: concern with religion and a taste for ...
Vladimir Brljak
wiley +1 more source