The course I study is Medieval and Renaissance History. It took me time to choose the subject of my thesis. Though I found some of what we studied in the medieval period interesting there was very little I felt I had the capacity to produce 20,000 words on. At one point I approached Dr. Pattenden [...]
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Thesis Blog
Posted in Digital History, The Ends of the Earth, tagged Church history, Identity, Ireland, Medieval Period, Monasticism, St. Patrick on March 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Zotero bibliography
Posted in Digital History, The Ends of the Earth, tagged new skills, research on February 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I can see myself using Zotero long after I finish the Digital History class. From using it, I’ve made a number of observations. To the extent that there is a tagging mechanism, it is not unlike the blogs that I’ve been posting on WordPress. Furthermore, although we as a class have been instructed to demonstrate [...]
HI6019 Notes, 2nd December 2009
Posted in The Ends of the Earth, tagged apostasy, Beowulf, Church history, English nationhood, exegesis, Saints on December 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
BEOWULF’S AUTHORSHIP AND SIGNIFICANCE AS A TEXT There is no agreement about when Beowulf was written down, although it has been suspected that it happened perhaps after the introduction of Christianity to England. The work itself, because of its Christian authorship, will never give a perfect glimpse of Pagan Scandinavia. Though the people in the [...]
HI6019 Notes, 18th November 2009
Posted in The Ends of the Earth, tagged affluence, ethnicity, exegesis, heritage, Ireland, The continent on December 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
ARTIFICIAL HISTORY In this part of the lecture Insular Thule was discussed. This was a part of the world considered to be near the ends of the Earth which were considered to be nothing more than icy wasteland. As for the world itself, this was thought to contain three continents separated from one another, and [...]
HI6019 Notes, 11th November 2009
Posted in The Ends of the Earth, tagged education, exegesis, Monasticism, Saints on December 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
EDUCATING THE ILLITERATE Monastic centres during the medieval period functioned as centres of learning. It has even been suggested that the stone crosses found within some monastic sites functioned as a “Bible for the illiterate”, although there is still uncertainty regarding the function they actually were intended to serve. Among the themes that can be [...]
HI6019 Notes, 4th November 2009
Posted in The Ends of the Earth, tagged death, Monasticism, technology on December 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
BACKGROUND INFORMATION CONCERNING DURROW In this lecture we were taught that Durrow is apparently a “greenfield” site that has never been excavated. It’s foundation has been approximated to during the period 1087-97 and its site has great value in educating us about early Christian monasticism. That fame attributed to the monastery is derived from the [...]
HI 6019 Notes – 28th September 2009
Posted in The Ends of the Earth, tagged Church history, Monasticism on December 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
To be honest the notes for this lecture weren’t the most cohesive…when I was taking them down I found it difficult to make the things we were being taught flow. Nonetheless, what I consider relevant to be put down has been typed up beneath. Enjoy! BACKGROUND INFORMATION TO LINDISFARNE Tihs monastery was given to St. [...]
HI6019 – Ends of the Earth, 14th Oct 2009
Posted in The Ends of the Earth, tagged Celtic Church, Church history on October 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I think that this year things have changed as regards the way I approach work…Looking back it’s ironic, first year was a challenge during the BA…and yet the final year, which was meant to be the hardest was, in my opinion, the best This year, I see another change, I’m starting to like things I [...]
HI6019 -Ends of the Earth, 7th October 2009
Posted in The Ends of the Earth, tagged Church history, Monasteries on October 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The first half of the class focussed on Bede and his society…unfortunately, because of a breakdown in communication (which I hear is the consequence of failures on the pat of the UCC computer system) I did not receive the email until the last moment which informed us what preparation we were to make for this [...]
Catching up…First Lecture of HI6019 – Ends of the Earth
Posted in The Ends of the Earth, tagged late antiquity, missionaries, vikings on October 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Right, time to make a fresh start…though I’m still a novice at this blogging, I think the initial blogs I attempted to compile on blackboard may be justly described as “woeful”. So today I think is an adequate time to go about using this internet hardware/software to organise the notes and reflections I have of [...]
