“These Conferences were begun eight years ago as part of a joint bid by Rye Castle Museum and the Rye Partnership to get a grant to stop the main Rye Castle – Ypres Tower leaking. One condition was to get Rye acknowledged by the academic world as a centre where the latest research in Medieval … Continue reading Rye Medieval Conference 2012
Tag: Anglo-Saxon
Discover Anglo-Saxon in the pages of Rye’s Own, where the subject emerges through local voices, historical detail and stories written close to the events. Readers can move between “Rye Medieval Conference 2012” and “The Word Rye means Island”, seeing how the subject appeared at different moments in the magazine.
The Word Rye means Island
A description of Rye by Barbara Ballard claims that the word Rye is a corruption of an old Anglo- Saxon word meaning an island. Sounds a quite feasible explanation. There have been others of course, the favourite Rhee, meaning shelter but island does sound convincing. Barbara Ballard’s description of Rye off the “Postcard of Britain … Continue reading The Word Rye means Island