Michael Lapidge News Today

Take a journey into the realm of old-world epics in order to understand how concepts of honor, loyalty and worth functioned in Anglo-Saxon warrior culture.

C alling a thing by its proper name is a service to truth, if not to political ambitions or evil designs. Of course, ambitions abide and creating labels to denigrate an idea, opponent, or promote your agenda is nothing new. If I am a "Progressive" and you are not with me, you must be against Progress. The Dark Ages was a clever label, attributed to Petrarch (d. 1374), stuck on the period after the decline of the Roman Empire which neatly contrasted with an earlier period of antiquity which boas...