This second symposium explores how powerful women shaped Harald’s formative travels, but it is also meant to be an opportunity to develop a wide-raging discussion of how women experienced power across the varied cultures that Harald visited, from the shores of the Mediterranean, to the Middle East, and the Nordic World.    Indeed, women shaped the […]

  This international and interdisciplinary project focuses on the status of the Norwegian Harald “Hardrada” as probably the best-documented frontiers-crosser extraordinaire of the early eleventh century. It uses his experiences and their legacies as a case study for a wide-ranging exploration of the Mediterranean and its links to the Nordic World in the liminal period […]

On 25 September 2021 we piloted some of the creative responses to our project at the event that the Royal Armouries Museum at Leeds organised on the anniversary of the Battle of Stamford Bridge, which is where Harald died. The battle was fought, in Yorkshire, not far from the museum, in 1066. The creative responses […]