This gives us an idea of how difficult life could be in early medieval England. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle close Anglo-Saxon ChronicleA collection of manuscripts written while Alfred the Great was ...

The Guardian reports that a sword dated to the sixth century has been discovered in an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in southeastern ...

Filmed on location at Houlgate Village near York a working AngloSaxon settlement this DVD provides incredible insight into a period of which little is known The Dark Age is shrouded in mystery Who ...

Athelstan was the first king of all England and ruled from 924 until his ... coin from the reign of King Athelstan There are also Anglo-Saxon coins, archaeological artefacts and metal detecting ...

An archaeologist said the weapon is "really incredible, in the top echelons of swords, an elite object in every way, which is wonderful." ...

His decision to take the job not only would change his life but also radically alter, and deepen, the understanding scholars had of the early Anglo-Saxon period in England following the collapse ...

Between the reign of Alfred in the late ninth century and the arrival of the Normans in 1066, a unique set of images of kingship and queenship was developed in Anglo-Saxon England, images of ...

They revolutionised historians' understanding of the 7th Century, previously seen as a backward time when England was divided into Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. In all, there were 263 finds of gold ...

The cult of saints was one of the most important aspects of life in the Middle Ages, and it often formed the nucleus of developing group identities in a town, a province or a country. The literature ...