My Publications:
Papers or Reviews in Refereed History Journals.
Howard Wiseman, Parergon 17,
1-10 (2000).
This paper is published in Parergon, the
Journal of the Australian
and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies. It
has been very gratifying to see this work:
a) mentioned in
the 2003 Oxford book The Britons
by Christopher Snyder,
b) discussed in the 2003 Routelidge book King
Arthur: Myth Making and History by Nicholas Higham,
c) discussed in the 2007 Cambridge book Barbarian Migrations and the Roman West,
376-568 by Guy Halsall.
A longer version of this paper, including
a discussion of the date of the battle of Camlann, The
derivation of the date of the Arthurian entries in the Annales
Cambriae from Bede and Gildas, can be found on the Vortigern Studies
page.
Howard Wiseman, The Heroic Age 6,
The Forum (2003).
The Heroic Age is a fully
peer-reviewed academic journal intended for professionals,
students and independent scholars, focussing on North-western Europe
during the early medieval period (from the late 4th through 11th
centuries).
Here is my abstract: In this book, David Howlett claims to
discover secret meanings in early Mediaeval Welsh compositions in
Latin, including the dates for the battle of Badon and Gildas'
composition of the de Excidio Britanniae. I argue that these
dates are baseless.
Howard M. Wiseman, The Heroic Age 10,
The Forum (2007).
This contains my considered (in 2006) view on the historicity of
Arthur: (i) The evidence suggests that there was a famous
historical 6th century Arthur. (ii) If there was such a man, he was
probably the Arthur, the
war-leader of the Britons at the battle of Badon. (iii) There's not
much more we can say about him with any degree of confidence.
Howard M. Wiseman, The Heroic Age 10,
Reviews (2007).
Here is the first line: This book was a great disappointment.
A wikipedia article for which I (as user "Vortimer") am almost wholly
responsible. I've also contributed to many other related articles.
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