Historian on the Edge

The Historical, Philosophical and Political Musings of an Autistic Historian

Showing posts with label cemeteries. Show all posts

Showing posts with label cemeteries. Show all posts

Thursday, 1 August 2013

Books

I have uploaded pdf files of the texts of a couple of my more obscure books to my Academia.edu page here * and (for Professor Grumpy's g...

Wednesday, 30 May 2012

Graves and Sexuality: Multiple readings

[ I was inspired by a critical discussion by Karl Steel here , of an attempt to project same-sex marriage into the past, to post my (I think...

Tuesday, 28 February 2012

Officers or Gentlemen? The Frankish Aristocracy in the Sixth Century: Part 2

[ In this second chunk of the article, I look at the dynamics of royal-aristocratic relations and how the maintenance of patronage could w...

Wednesday, 5 January 2011

The (Ab)Use of DNA in the Study of Early Medieval Cemeteries

[ Much attention has recently been given, especially in popular news sources, to the use of DNA evidence in elucidating the 'Barbarian M...

Wednesday, 1 December 2010

Ethnicity and Early Medieval Cemeteries

The text, of this paper, which I gave on 29 Nov 2010 at the University of the Basque Country, Vitoria has been removed as it is now publishe...

Wednesday, 6 October 2010

The Woad Less Travelled: the archaeology of earlier Pictish society and politics viewed from Francia

This is the text of the paper delivered to the First Millennia Studies Group at the University of Edinburgh, 5 October, 2010. Introduction T...

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Historian on the Edge: Professor Grumpy, the Historian on the Edge, is, depending on your viewpoint, either the Jeremy Corbyn or the Donald Trump of early medieval history.

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