#alfredthegreat — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.europesays.com/britain/29890/ Charming UK city with ‘the best high street in Britain’ and 200 independent shops #AlfredTheGreat #Britain #HighStreet #KingArthur #RoyalFamily #ShoppingCentres #Travel #WilliamTheConqueror #Winchester

https://www.europesays.com/uk/941408/ Charming UK city with ‘the best high street in Britain’ and 200 independent shops #AlfredTheGreat #Britain #England #GreatBritain #HighStreet #KingArthur #NorthernIreland #RoyalFamily #Scotland #ShoppingCentres #Travel #UK #UnitedKingdom #Wales #WilliamTheConqueror #winchester

In this week’s Miscellanies: #AlfredtheGreat’s embassy to #India.

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In this week’s newsletter: #AlfredtheGreat’s embassy to #India.

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I think I forgot to share this one here, one of my personal favourites: "The King and I. Representations of BDSM in Fanfiction about King Alfred".

https://doi.org/10.1484/M.NEO-EB.5.136271

#kinky #fanfiction #alfredthegreat #bdsm #storytelling #fanscholar

I had the honour of contributing a guest blog for the OG(H)AM Project of the University of Glasgow! In my post, I explore the fascinating intersection of history and mythology by looking at Ogham, the ancient Celtic script, and its surprising role in Alfred the Great fanfiction. 📜✨👑

https://ogham.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/2024/10/21/exploring-ogham-in-alfred-the-great-fanfiction-a-fusion-of-history-and-mythology/

#Ogham #AlfredTheGreat #Celtic #Fanfiction #CelticStudies #DigitalHumanities #ProudMoment #HistoryAndMyth #KingAlfred #MedievalStudies #AncientScripts #OghamProject #guestblog

I had the honour of contributing a guest blog for the OG(H)AM Project of the University of Glasgow! In my post, I explore the fascinating intersection of history and mythology by looking at Ogham, the ancient Celtic script, and its surprising role in Alfred the Great fanfiction. 📜✨👑

https://ogham.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/2024/10/21/exploring-ogham-in-alfred-the-great-fanfiction-a-fusion-of-history-and-mythology/

#Ogham #AlfredTheGreat #Celtic #Fanfiction #CelticStudies #DigitalHumanities #ProudMoment #HistoryAndMyth #KingAlfred #MedievalStudies #AncientScripts #OghamProject #guestblog

I had the honour of contributing a guest blog for the OG(H)AM Project of the University of Glasgow! In my post, I explore the fascinating intersection of history and mythology by looking at Ogham, the ancient Celtic script, and its surprising role in Alfred the Great fanfiction. 📜✨👑

https://ogham.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/2024/10/21/exploring-ogham-in-alfred-the-great-fanfiction-a-fusion-of-history-and-mythology/

#Ogham #AlfredTheGreat #Celtic #Fanfiction #CelticStudies #DigitalHumanities #ProudMoment #HistoryAndMyth #KingAlfred #MedievalStudies #AncientScripts #OghamProject #guestblog

I had the honour of contributing a guest blog for the OG(H)AM Project of the University of Glasgow! In my post, I explore the fascinating intersection of history and mythology by looking at Ogham, the ancient Celtic script, and its surprising role in Alfred the Great fanfiction. 📜✨👑

https://ogham.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/2024/10/21/exploring-ogham-in-alfred-the-great-fanfiction-a-fusion-of-history-and-mythology/

#Ogham #AlfredTheGreat #Celtic #Fanfiction #CelticStudies #DigitalHumanities #ProudMoment #HistoryAndMyth #KingAlfred #MedievalStudies #AncientScripts #OghamProject #guestblog

Happy and proud that my article "Playing King Alfred: Historical reenactment and cosplay of Alfred the Great" was published in Transformative Works and Cultures.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2024.2525 .

#kingalfred #reenactment #cosplay #chirho #Livinghistory #Passionplay #Performanceart #TheLastKingdom #Vikings #alfredthegreat #playing #medievalism #neomedieval

Happy and proud that my article "Playing King Alfred: Historical reenactment and cosplay of Alfred the Great" was published in Transformative Works and Cultures.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2024.2525 .

#kingalfred #reenactment #cosplay #chirho #Livinghistory #Passionplay #Performanceart #TheLastKingdom #Vikings #alfredthegreat #playing #medievalism #neomedieval

Happy and proud that my article "Playing King Alfred: Historical reenactment and cosplay of Alfred the Great" was published in Transformative Works and Cultures.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2024.2525 .

#kingalfred #reenactment #cosplay #chirho #Livinghistory #Passionplay #Performanceart #TheLastKingdom #Vikings #alfredthegreat #playing #medievalism #neomedieval

Happy and proud that my article "Playing King Alfred: Historical reenactment and cosplay of Alfred the Great" was published in Transformative Works and Cultures.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2024.2525 .

#kingalfred #reenactment #cosplay #chirho #Livinghistory #Passionplay #Performanceart #TheLastKingdom #Vikings #alfredthegreat #playing #medievalism #neomedieval

Happy and proud that my article "Playing King Alfred: Historical reenactment and cosplay of Alfred the Great" was published in Transformative Works and Cultures.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2024.2525 .

#kingalfred #reenactment #cosplay #chirho #Livinghistory #Passionplay #Performanceart #TheLastKingdom #Vikings #alfredthegreat #playing #medievalism #neomedieval

I was greeted by a lovely surprise when I returned home from holiday—the printed copies of Studia Celtica Posnaniensia had arrived, including my article “ᚁ IS BEITH AND MEANS BIRCH” – AN EXPLORATION OF OGHAM IN ONLINE FANFICTION FEATURING KING ALFRED THE GREAT.

You can read the article online here: https://doi.org/10.14746/scp.2023.8.2.

#Ogham #CelticStudies #Fanfiction #AlfredTheGreat #Linguistics #StudiaCelticaPosnaniensia #CulturalHeritage #DigitalAge #FanCulture #ResearchPublication #KingAlfred #acafan

Happy with this publication! 😊

“The Fate of England Rested With a 22 Year Old Boy” ‐ Media Representations of the Youth and Childhood of King Alfred the Great - in Sociology Lens 37(198),
DOI: 10.1111/johs.12451 .

Open access via https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/johs.12451 .

#alfredthegreat #kingalfred #fanfiction #media #medievalism #fanstudies #lastkingdom #vikings #fandom #movies

Very excited to be part of the 2023 International Conference for the Study of Medievalism. 😊

#medievalism #middleages #alfredthegreat #kingalfred #fanart #digitalculture #fanfiction

His biographer wrote that Alfred the Great didn't learn to read until he was at least twelve. However, if that's true, he soon made up for it. His mother offered a book of poems to whichever of her children was first to memorise it, and Alfred won.

More to him than burning cakes. 10 things you might not know about Alfred the Great:

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2018/10/26-october-alfred-great.html

#AlfredtheGreat #KingsAndQueens #History #BritishHistory #Facts

Aaaand.... another one! 🤩

On my BD, I got notice that Transformative Works and Cultures published my short piece on artificial intelligence and the production of fan art (with DOI https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2023.2431).

Happy & proud to be in one of my most inspiring journals once again. 🥳

Open access via https://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/2431/3071 .

#fanart #fanfiction #kingalfred #artificialintelligence #ai #alfredthegreat #dalle #midjourney #art #digitalart #fanscholar

Very happy & proud about this "Dialogue Article" with Dr María Del Mar Guerrero Pico in Kleos. ^_^

https://www.academia.edu/107992165/Digging_King_Alfred_Representations_of_Archaeological_Artefacts_in_Alfredian_Fanfiction

Picture is the famous Alfred Jewel, which I saw live at the British Library in London <3

#medievalmerge #medievalism #alfredthegreat #fanfiction #archeology

And finally, I stopped in Shaftesbury, the old market town that my family members would presumably have known well as it's just a few miles from their villages.

According to tradition, Shaftesbury was once known as Caer Palladwr in Celtic Britain; actual recorded history dates to the 8th century CE, by which time where was an important minster in the town. Alfred the Great built the abbey here in the 9th century and placed his daughter, Aethelgifu, there as the first abbess. The body of King Edward the Martyr ended up buried here after this murder in the late 10th century, and Cnut died here.

It was featured in the Domesday Book and the abbey continued as an important site until the dissolution of the monasteries. After this, Shaftesbury continued as a market town, but faced decline as industrialisation took hold in the country. Thomas Hardy wrote of it:

"Vague imaginings of its castle, its three mints, its magnificent apsidal abbey, the chief glory of south Wessex, its twelve churches, its shrines, chantries, hospitals, its gabled freestone mansions—all now ruthlessly swept away—throw the visitor, even against his will, into a pensive melancholy, which the stimulating atmosphere and limitless landscape around him can scarcely dispel."

I didn't feel any melancholy, I have to say - even though I arrived at the end of a grey day at the tail end of September, after the abbey had closed for the day. I'd have liked to spend more time there.

#Shaftesbury #Dorset #History #Wessex #Medieval #AlfredTheGreat

I am working on a concept album about the sister of King #Arwald of the #IsleofWight , the mother of #Wihtred of Kent and the great great grandmother of #AlfredTheGreat

Here is the first and title track — The Call of Wihtfyr

https://on.soundcloud.com/do5nEeo963G6amGp9

Is there something fishy about radiocarbon dating? https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2023/05/is-there-something-fishy-about-radiocarbon-dating.html #Creationism #RadiocarbonDating #ChickTracts #BigDaddy #AlfredTheGreat

22nd April, Today we commemorate the last British #Pagan King, and last king of the #IsleOfWight Arwald.

On this day in 686, Cædwalla, King of Wessex invaded the #Jutish kingdom of Wihtwara, the land of Whit [ ᚹᛁᚻᛏ ] (Spirits / Supernatural Beings).

Arwald had sent his two son to his kinsfolk, the Meonwara to keep them safe.

Due to their superior size, the army of Cædwalla were victorious. However, not without many casualties. #Folklore says that Arwald dealt Cædwalla a near fatal wound that never healed and would ultimately take his life many years later. The story says, that the last curse, uttered using the last of the old magic was from Arwald's lips as he struck Cædwalla.

After the battle, Cædwalla sent his men the commit genocide on the island. A memory that still runs deep on the Island, even to this day.

The two princes were also betrayed after they had been forced to convert to #christianity -- Cædwalla had them killed.

This is not the of the story, the sister of Arwald was the wife of the King of #Kent and was the great great great Grandmother of #AlfredTheGreat. One could argue, the line of Wiht is behind the whole of the British royal family.

#OldEnglish #histodons #medievodons #AngloSaxons #AngloSaxonSaturday #paganism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arwald

@histodons
@medievodons
@anglosaxon
@oldenglish
@pagan

@[email protected]
#UKpol #UKreform

Now should be the time to undo the work of #AlfredTheGreat.
Time to catch up: a defensive union of the #Saxon kingdoms is no longer needed: there are no raids by #Highlanders, the #Irish, the #Vikings anymore and there is no #Danelaw.
However, there's #NATO + the #EuropeanUnion.

1,137 years after #Ælfred became King of the #AngloSaxons , it's time for a paradigm shift. It is time for the #RegionsOfEurope 2.0, in particular for the #BritishIsles:

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110061272715388915

@[email protected]
#UKpol #UKreform

Now should be the time to undo the work of #AlfredTheGreat.
Time to catch up: a defensive union of the #Saxon kingdoms is no longer needed: there are no raids by #Highlanders, the #Irish, the #Vikings anymore and there is no #Danelaw.
However, there's #NATO + the #EuropeanUnion.

1,137 years after #Ælfred became King of the #AngloSaxons , it's time for a paradigm shift. It is time for the #RegionsOfEurope 2.0, in particular for the #BritishIsles:

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110061272715388915

@[email protected]
#UKpol #UKreform

Now should be the time to undo the work of #AlfredTheGreat.
Time to catch up: a defensive union of the #Saxon kingdoms is no longer needed: there are no raids by #Highlanders, the #Irish, the #Vikings anymore and there is no #Danelaw.
However, there's #NATO + the #EuropeanUnion.

1,137 years after #Ælfred became King of the #AngloSaxons , it's time for a paradigm shift. It is time for the #RegionsOfEurope 2.0, in particular for the #BritishIsles:

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110061272715388915

@[email protected]
#UKpol #UKreform

Now should be the time to undo the work of #AlfredTheGreat.
Time to catch up: a defensive union of the #Saxon kingdoms is no longer needed: there are no raids by #Highlanders, the #Irish, the #Vikings anymore and there is no #Danelaw.
However, there's #NATO + the #EuropeanUnion.

1,137 years after #Ælfred became King of the #AngloSaxons , it's time for a paradigm shift. It is time for the #RegionsOfEurope 2.0, in particular for the #BritishIsles:

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110061272715388915

@[email protected]
#UKpol #UKreform

Now should be the time to undo the work of #AlfredTheGreat.
Time to catch up: a defensive union of the #Saxon kingdoms is no longer needed: there are no raids by #Highlanders, the #Irish, the #Vikings anymore and there is no #Danelaw.
However, there's #NATO + the #EuropeanUnion.

1,137 years after #Ælfred became King of the #AngloSaxons , it's time for a paradigm shift. It is time for the #RegionsOfEurope 2.0, in particular for the #BritishIsles:

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110061272715388915

Going to see 878ad.co.uk in Winchester next weekend. Looking forward to it but don't really know what to expect #878AD #Winchester #AlfredTheGreat #AngloSaxons