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Postgraduate Conference Proceedings 2009

 

North and South, East and West: Movements in the Medieval World

Proceedings of the 2nd Postgraduate Conference of the Institute for Medieval Research
University of Nottingham, 30-31 May 2009

Edited by

Judith Mills and Marjolein Stern

   

Contents

 

Introduction

Judith Mills and Marjolein Stern, University of Nottingham

 

Viking Travellers of the Sagas

John Shafer, University of Durham

 

When and How did the Rūs/Rhos Enter Written Sources?

Thorir Hraundal, University of Bergen

 

East Germanic and West Germanic in Contact: n-stem personal names in the Continental runic inscriptions

Martin Findell, University of Nottingham

 

The Appearance of Lighthouses on Portolan Charts: 1300-1600 AD 

APPENDIX: Table of Lighthouses

Kevin Sheehan, University of Durham

 

Crossing the River: of Whores and Watermen

Claire Atfield, University of Nottingham

 

New ‘Medicine’ for Old? Recipes, remedies and treatments in vernacular manuscripts

Theresa Tyers, University of Nottingham

 

 

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