"Hardly any Latin books from medieval Iceland have survived. Due to their rarity, recycled parchment from disassembled Latin books is one of our most important sources in the history of medieval ...

We welcome cutting-edge approaches that seek to engage with all of medieval Scandinavia: not only Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Sweden but also regions of the world that were part of the Norse universe ...

Speaking to a large audience yesterday afternoon in the Fogg Art Museum Professor Sigurthur Nordal outlined the history and unique literary life of medieval Iceland. He was introduced by Dr. F.

An Environmental History of Medieval Europe. Cambridge ... "Landscapes of Settlement in Northern Iceland: Historical Ecology of Human Impact and Climate Fluctuation on the Millennial Scale." American ...

She focused her questions on the medieval Icelandic woolen industry, recentering textiles and women's labor in the wider history of the Icelandic Commonwealth.

Dr. Jana K. Schulman, professor of English and director of the WMU Medieval Institute, has received a $180,000 award from the National Endowment for the Humanities. "Teaching 'Beowulf' in the Context ...