Although we call the language spoken by the Anglo-Saxons “Old English,” English speakers today won’t find much in common between it and the language we have now. More than 1000 years ago ...
After Alfred, Anglo-Saxon kings took the Danelaw land territories back from the Vikings. Alfred's grandson, Athelstan, pushed English power north as far as Scotland. He was the first 'King of all ...
Ohlgren examines ten visual images from early medieval English manuscripts and Anglo-Viking culture to analyze the reciprocal relationships between texts, images, and culture. A new edition of Alan ...
Archaeologists have discovered 321 silver coins still wrapped in a cloth and lead pouch from a time in English history marked by upheaval due to the coronation of a new Anglo-Saxon king.
But the early Anglo-Saxons were not Christians ... when he was just seven years old. Bede wrote a book called 'A History of the English Church and People' in AD730. This was the story of the ...
An Anglo-Saxon girl who died 1,500 years ago in England ... Archaeologists unearthed the 1,800-year-old multicolored goblet upon finding the girl's sixth-century grave in the village of Scremby ...
Archaeologists discovered a sixth-century sword in an Anglo ... Saxons from the fifth and sixth centuries as they moved to Britain from northern continental Europe. When a roughly 1,500-year-old ...
Discovered in the late 1930s, Sutton Hoo (from the Old English Sut and ... Sutton Hoo and Syria: The Anglo-Saxons Who Served in the Byzantine Army?, The English Historical Review (2025).
One of King Harold's manors appears twice in the famous Bayeux Tapestry, but only 948 years later have researchers finally identified the building's remains.