Northumbria

The first record of Stonegrave Minster occurs in a letter of AD757 which Pope Paul I sent to Eadbert, King of Northumbria, objecting to his appointment of lay abbots. Some earlier records show that Oswy, a previous Northumbrian king, endowed twelve small minsters in the north during AD654-5 and Stonegrave was probably one of these. The Minster was rebuilt and added…

The Age of Bede is book of five texts that are important sources of the early history of the Christian Church in England and Ireland during the sixth and seventh centuries. This text will focus on ideals from four of the five texts. These ideals are the Life of Saint Cuthbert, the Life of Wilfred, Benedict Biscop's contribution to English Christianity, Ceolfrith founding and heading the monastery of Jarrow, how English monks and Bishops contacts with the continent and papacy affected English…

Module 9 Key Terms Feudalism Feudalism refers to a combination of military and legal customs in European medieval and aristocratic knights that flourished between the 9th and 15th century. It explains a set of both military and judicial responsibilities among warriors, revolving around three centers, that is the vassals, lords, and fiefs/land. Feudalism does not only incorporate the seizure of the land or the kings but also concentrates on the sovereignty of the state to exercise the feudal…

The Middle Ages were, in a certain way, a time of darkness. Stories and history were primarily passed on through the ages by word of mouth. However, this changed when a man, a monk named Bede, took pieces of history and wrote books describing these historical events. Bede was able to learn through his monastery’s library and became the Middle Ages’ greatest scholar. Without him, our knowledge of this time period might have been limited and historical events lost. Around the time of Bede’s birth…

Traumatic events cause phobias. An article, written by W.J. Magee., called the Effects of negative life experiences on phobia onset, found that unpredictable and uncontrollable evets can understandably threaten or result in harm and can have an influence on the onset of agoraphobia—otherwise known as an anxiety disorder, this is based on the National Comorbidity Survey and several other studies. The theories involving the etiology, or the cause, of phobias offers to explain the impacts of…

#1: Their influence was felt most by the people of the places and cities being raided at the time. In the excerpt from the Annals of St. Vaast, it emphasizes that these Vikings, “[d]estroyed houses, and razed monasteries and churches to the ground, and brought to their death the servants of our holy religion by famine and sword, or sold them beyond the sea” (Issue of the Day Para: 2). These raids by the Vikings most likely negatively effected those countries’ political and military development…

Scotland. As Malcolm III was helped by the English to conquer the throne of Scotland, they saw the opportunity to realise their wishes of governance. Nonetheless, once he was King, Malcolm turned his back on them and became an opponent. He invaded Northumbria several times. He lost against William the conqueror, who seized the English throne by conquest, and had to accept his overlordship. The following Kings, among which is David I, governed under the suzerainty of England, and the feudal…

arguable, but their appearance in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle supports the assertion that at least some of the poet’s audience would see the dragon and the destruction it wreaks as a very real possibility. As scholar W.W. Laurence notes, “the people of Northumbria, as the Anglo-Saxon…

From an evolutionary standpoint, olfaction is one of the oldest senses. Aiding in our memory and also in the detection of hazards, the sense of smell became a necessity in the human struggle for survival. From the creation of synthetic fragrances to even the enhancing of our sense of taste, olfaction has even affected our culture. Our sense of smell has helped establish the human race into what it is today, but could it also be affecting us on a subconscious level? First we must understand…

Who were the Vikings? The true meaning of a Viking is the following “one that belongs to the pirate crews and teams from whom were the Northmen, who raided the coastlines of Europe in the 8th, 9th, and even the 10th centuries.” Some of the historical explanations have offered an image of the Vikings as being extremely brutal, savage, unsympathetic warriors who robbed and burned with reckless abandons. In fact this is not the complete story. While the Vikings were amazingly great warriors and…