The term Anglo-Saxon is a relatively modern one. It refers to settlers from the German regions of Angeln and Saxony, who made their way over to Britain after the fall of the Roman Empire around AD ...

His son, Honorius, ruled as a Christian emperor. Yet the pagan Anglo-Saxons copied a clearly Christian coin. Related: Roman ...

‘Anglo-Saxon’ is a term with a long and nuanced history. This study assesses where the word itself comes from, why it has been felt appropriate to separate the pre-Conquest epoch from later English ...

Archaeologists have discovered a "unique" ancient Roman drinking vessel mysteriously embedded in an Anglo-Saxon burial from the early 6th century A.D. The burial is one of 49 that were interred ...

including History and English Literature, and replacing it with the more favoured 'Early Medieval English.' Academics have ...

This 1930 volume contains the original texts, with translations and commentaries, of the great majority of surviving Anglo-Saxon wills drawn up in the tenth and eleventh centuries. The documents are ...

The largest Anglo-Saxon ship burial ever discovered contained ... He lived at a time in which ancient customs coexisted with new religious ideas, a fascinating period in which northern Europe ...

Anglo-Saxon kings were mostly vegetarian before the ... findings overturned major assumptions about early medieval English history. Cambridge University bioarchaeologist Sam Leggett drew her ...

Anglo Saxon weight sets often feature pre-Saxon coins ... Most of the content on A History of the World is created by the contributors, who are the museums and members of the public.

James Vukmirovic took a trip to see a distillery which mixes Anglo Saxon mythology with the fruits of the local area to create a truly unique whisky.

English owes much to its Anglo Saxon origins. Listen to the voices of rogues, knights and fops as they chart the history of the language. The Anglo-Saxons - A brief introduction to the origins of ...