Bibliography
Lindy
Brady
Works authored
Brady, Lindy, Writing the Welsh borderlands in Anglo-Saxon England, Artes Liberales, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017.
abstract:
This is the first study of the Anglo-Welsh border region in the period before the Norman arrival in England, from the fifth to the twelfth centuries. Its conclusions significantly alter our current picture of Anglo/Welsh relations before the Norman Conquest by overturning the longstanding critical belief that relations between these two peoples during this period were predominately contentious. Writing the Welsh borderlands in Anglo-Saxon England demonstrates that the region which would later become the March of Wales was not a military frontier in Anglo-Saxon England, but a distinctively mixed Anglo-Welsh cultural zone which was depicted as a singular place in contemporary Welsh and Anglo-Saxon texts. This study reveals that the region of the Welsh borderlands was much more culturally coherent, and the impact of the Norman Conquest on it much greater, than has been previously realised.
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abstract:
This is the first study of the Anglo-Welsh border region in the period before the Norman arrival in England, from the fifth to the twelfth centuries. Its conclusions significantly alter our current picture of Anglo/Welsh relations before the Norman Conquest by overturning the longstanding critical belief that relations between these two peoples during this period were predominately contentious. Writing the Welsh borderlands in Anglo-Saxon England demonstrates that the region which would later become the March of Wales was not a military frontier in Anglo-Saxon England, but a distinctively mixed Anglo-Welsh cultural zone which was depicted as a singular place in contemporary Welsh and Anglo-Saxon texts. This study reveals that the region of the Welsh borderlands was much more culturally coherent, and the impact of the Norman Conquest on it much greater, than has been previously realised.
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Contributions to journals
Brady, Lindy, “Rogue bishops around the Irish Sea before the mid-twelfth century”, Peritia 31 (2020): 9–27.
abstract:
This article argues for a common episcopal culture in the pre-Norman Irish Sea region in which clerical fighting was relatively unproblematic. Several factors caused previously acceptable clerical participation in warfare to stand out as ‘rogue’, bringing expectations of episcopal behaviour in line with norms in parts of Europe that were becoming culturally dominant.
abstract:
This article argues for a common episcopal culture in the pre-Norman Irish Sea region in which clerical fighting was relatively unproblematic. Several factors caused previously acceptable clerical participation in warfare to stand out as ‘rogue’, bringing expectations of episcopal behaviour in line with norms in parts of Europe that were becoming culturally dominant.
Brady, Lindy, “Feminine desire and conditional misogyny in Arthur and Gorlagon”, Arthuriana 24:3 (2014): 23–44.
abstract:
This essay argues that the adulterous female characters in the exempla of Arthur and Gorlagon are distinguished from Guenevere in the text’s frame narrative. Arthur and Gorlagon is not wholly misogynist, but reserves contempt for female characters who express sexual desire in public spaces.
abstract:
This essay argues that the adulterous female characters in the exempla of Arthur and Gorlagon are distinguished from Guenevere in the text’s frame narrative. Arthur and Gorlagon is not wholly misogynist, but reserves contempt for female characters who express sexual desire in public spaces.
