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Review: Entangled Empires: The Anglo-Iberian Atlantic, 1500-1830
No full textJorge Cañizares-Esguerra, ed., Entangled Empires: The Anglo-Iberian Atlantic, 1500-1830. (Philadelphia: University ofPennsylvania Press, 2018). Print, 344 pp., US$55, ISBN:9780812249835
Review: Early Modern Emotions: An Introduction
No full textSusan Broomhall, ed., Early Modern Emotions: An Introduction.(London and New York: Routledge, 2017). Print, 386 pp., £36.99,ISBN: 9781138925755
Review: The Picts Re-Imagined
No full textJulianna Grigg, The Picts Re-Imagined (Leeds: Arc HumanitiesPress, 2018). Print, 108pp., £11.95, ISBN: 9781641890915
‘Holy Things:’ Dürer’s ‘Feast of the Rosary’ in the Rudolfine Court
Get PDFRudolf II passionate appetite for works by celebrated German artist Albrecht Dürer’s led to an aggressive campaign to acquire original works and promote his court artists to create imitations of Dürer’s works. This paper explores the question of how and why Emperor Rudolf set about collecting works of art by Dürer that were originally intended for a religious devotional context and in what ways did his interest in Dürer’s religious works connect to representations of Rudolf’s cultural and imperial legacy. By examining Dürer’s Feast of the Rosary (1506), this paper will consider the ways in which Dürer’s legacy and German heritage became interwoven with changing perceptive of the status of the art object which centered Dürer’s artworks as an allegorical representation of himself and his heritage. Furthermore, within the Rudolfine court, Dürer’s altarpieces functioned as representations of Rudolf’s cultural legacy through the appropriation of religious images of his imperial claim and past heritage. Through the shifting veneration of the artist, a new material culture of Empire was established through the collecting habits of the Rudolfine Court
Review: Sub-creating Arda: World-building in J. R. R. Tolkien’s Work, Its Precursors, and Its Legacies
No full textDimitra Fimi and Thomas Honegger, eds, Sub-creating Arda: World-building in J. R. R. Tolkien’s Work, Its Precursors, and Its Legacies, Cormarë Series No. 40 (Zürich: Walking Tree Publishers, 2019). Print. 464 pp., £19.85/€22.50, ISBN: 978-3-905703-40-5
The Politics of Hegemony and the ‘Empires’ of Anglo-Saxon England
Get PDFThe term ‘empire’ is frequently applied retrospectively by historians to historical trans-cultural political entities that are notable either for their geographic breadth, unprecedented expansionary ambitions, or extensive political hegemony. Yet the use of the terminology of empire in historical studies is often ill-defined, as exemplified by the territorial hegemonies of Æthelstan (r. 924 – 939) and Cnut (r. 1016 – 1035). In their programs of territorial expansion and political consolidation, modern historians have credited both Æthelstan and Cnut as the creators and overlords of trans-cultural European empires. Yet common characteristics that warrant categorisation of the polities they governed as ‘empires’ are not readily discernible. Not only were the regions each controlled territorially and culturally distinct, but their methods of establishing political dominance and regional governance were equally varied. This raises the question as to whether the term 'empire' can be considered to define a distinct and coherent category of political power when applied to medieval monarchical hegemonies. By analysing the Anglo-Saxon ‘empires’ of Æthelstan and Cnut within the frameworks of empire set out by modern political theorists, this paper will establish whether the structural commonalities of their domains supersede their inherent diversity, thereby justifying a common categorisation as ‘empires.
Review: Supernatural Encounters in Old Norse Literature and Tradition
No full textDaniel Sävborg and Karen Bek-Pedersen, eds, Supernatural Encounters in Old Norse Literature and Tradition, Borders, Boundaries, Landscapes 1 (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2018). Print. vii, 265 pp., € 75.00 excl. tax, ISBN: 978-2-503-57531-5 (hardback)
Review: Vaucelles Abbey: Social, Political, and Ecclesiastical Relationships in the Borderland Region of the Cambrésis, 1131-1300
No full textKathryn E. Salzer, Vaucelles Abbey: Social, Political, andEcclesiastical Relationships in the Borderland Region of theCambrésis, 1131-1300, Medieval Monastic Studies, 2 (Turnhout:Brepols, 2017). Print, 365pp., €100.00, ISBN: 9782503555249
Review: The Saint and the Saga Hero: Hagiography and Early Icelandic Literature
No full textSiȃn E. Grønlie. The Saint and the Saga Hero: Hagiography and Early Icelandic Literature, Studies in Old Norse Literature (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2017). Print, 306 pp., £70.00, ISBN: 9781843844815