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

He also ordered many new ships to be built to protect his kingdom from invasion ... in the early Anglo-Saxon period. Bede tells us, for example, about terrible famines that hit England, and ...

Said to be in an “exceptional state of preservation,” the sword bears a silver-and-gilt hilt and runic inscriptions along the ...

Their efforts contradict the assumption that Anglo-Saxon studies did not effectively participate in Tudor nationalism outside of Protestant polemic; instead, it was a vital part of making history ...

A History of the Beginnings of England,’ historian Marc Morris recounts the turbulent era between the abandonment of Britain ...

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

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

The literature of Anglo-Saxon England is unique among contemporary European literatures in that it features a vast amount of saints' Lives in the vernacular. Of these Lives, Ælfric is the most ...

Modifying coins into jewellery happened across the Anglo-Saxon and Norman periods ... Confessor's death in 1066 precipitated the invasion and conquest of England by William of Normandy, who ...

An auction spokeswoman said the coins originated from several different mints A hoard of Anglo ... of a Saxon church believed to have been demolished soon after the Norman conquest in the 11th ...