I love visiting historical places, and one of my recent trips was to the north of England and Scotland. This shot is one I took of a ruin called Hadrian's Wall, in county Northumberland, in the far north of England. The wall was a defensive fortification built by the Romans during the reign of the Emperor Hadrian to protect the parts of Britain they had conquered from the parts over which they didn't have control. You can see the square base of one of the guard towers and part of the wall in this photo:
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| Hadrian's Wall at Twice Brewed, Northumberland |
The medieval period in Britain is often considered to begin when the Romans withdrew (410 A.D.) and the wall fell into disrepair, but they left behind lots of cultural influences that continued throughout medieval Europe, like the use of Latin for administration and religious worship. Luckily, you don't need to know Latin to enjoy this semester, because all the documents we'll be reading have been translated into English.
By the way - it was very cold and windy when I was in Northumberland - as you can probably tell from this shot...!
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| A wind-blown blogger |
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