Archaeologists have unearthed a remarkably well-preserved elite sword from a newly discovered Anglo-Saxon cemetery near ...

Translation played a crucial role in the emergence of vernacular literary culture in the Middle Ages. This is the first book to consider the rise of translation as part of a broader history of ...

Great! Well let’s start at the beginning. The Anglo-Saxon age in Britain was about 410 to 1066 and they originally come from Germany and Scandinavia. Some historians say they were driven from ...

Where do we go after we die? This book traces how the European Middle Ages offered distinctive answers to this universal question, evolving from Antiquity through to the sixteenth century, to reflect ...

Brixworth Church has been standing since the late 7th century, long before the Norman Conquest or even the establishment of ...

The sixth-century burial of an Anglo-Saxon teenage girl surprised archaeologists ... may have been imported to England from France in the middle of the third century A.D., during Britain's Roman ...

The Anglo-Saxon period lasted for 600 years, from 410 to 1066, before the middle ages. But other samples suggested the giant was made at later dates of up to 1560, which left the archaeologists ...

Fragments of a helmet recovered from the Sutton Hoo ship burial show that early-medieval metalwork could be decorative and ...

Archaeologists said artefacts found at their Beeford digs, including pottery and glass beads, indicate Anglo-Saxons settled in Holderness. Items from the Bronze Age, Iron-Age and Roman period were ...

James Norton has revealed he was set on playing William the Conqueror in upcoming Middle Ages drama series “King and ... meaning his only option was to play Anglo-Saxon king Harold, who famously died ...