http://www.carlanayland.org/ New items and articles on Carla Nayland's website Sun, 28 Feb 2016 12:59:51 GMT ListGarden Program 1.3.1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.carlanayland.org/essays/pictish_inscriptions.htm The people living in what is now Northern Scotland in the Late Roman and early medieval period were known to their Latin-speaking neighbours (and, by extension, to us) as Picts. They spoke a distinct language, but little if any of it survives. A small number of Pictish inscriptions using the Irish script called ogham are known. What can these tell us about the lost language of the Picts? Sun, 28 Feb 2016 12:58:58 GMT http://www.carlanayland.org/reviews/to_defy_a_king.htm Elizabeth Chadwick s Marshal-Bigod family saga reaches the third generation, exploring family and social relationships in twelfth-century England through the marriage between Mahelt Marshal (daughter of William Marshal) and Hugh Bigod (son of Roger Bigod, Earl of Norfolk). Sun, 28 Feb 2016 12:57:41 GMT http://www.carlanayland.org/essays/guallauc.htm Guallauc son of Lleenauc was an important king in late sixth-century Britain. He may have ruled the British kingdom of Elmet, and fought alongside his kinsman Urien of Rheged in Bernicia. What do we know about him? Thu, 03 Dec 2015 19:36:24 GMT http://www.carlanayland.org/reviews/better_gold.htm The spectacular Staffordshire Hoard, the largest collection of Anglo-Saxon precious metalwork ever found, was discovered in 2009 in the English Midlands. Better Than Gold, a children’s novel set in seventh-century England, imagines events that could lie behind the hoard and its burial, told through the eyes of the ten-year-old prince Egfrid of Bernicia during his time as a hostage in an enemy kingdom. Thu, 03 Dec 2015 19:34:38 GMT http://www.carlanayland.org/essays/ceretic.htm Ceretic was the last recorded king of the British kingdom of Elmet, and lived in the early seventh century. What do we know about him? Sun, 26 Jul 2015 16:25:42 GMT http://www.carlanayland.org/reviews/queen_last_hopes.htm Sympathetic portrait of Margaret of Anjou and her role in the Wars of the Roses in fourteenth-century England. Sun, 26 Jul 2015 16:24:27 GMT