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The towering castles that dot England’s landscape symbolize power, conquest, and control. For centuries, they have been viewed as monuments to the Norman elite who reshaped the country after 1066.
Learn who Aethelflaed was and what the different kingdoms were in Anglo-Saxon Britain. Read how the country was ruled by different tribes in this BBC history guide.
Historians had long assumed that Anglo-Saxon elites ate far more meat than the peasantry they lorded over because of documents itemizing food tributes, known as “feorm” in Old English.
The last half-century of Anglo-Saxon England was perfectly framed by foreign invasions. The first was the Danish conquest of 1016 at the hands of King Cnut. This was to serve, in many ways, as the ...
FOR ANGLO-SAXON UNITY; Mr. Chamberlain Avows that One Duty of England Is to Maintain an Entente. A STRONG EULOGY FOR AMERICA Warns the Powers -- War Would Be Cheap, He Says, If the Two Flags Waved ...
Long after the discovery of Anglo-Saxon graveyards at the Sutton Hoo site in East Anglia, England, scientists are still analyzing the treasures uncovered there. Perhaps the most famous grave at ...
A major university in England is reportedly distancing itself from the term "Anglo-Saxon" out of concern it evokes an exclusive racial identity that could evoke nationalism.
The venerable dons of the Cambridge University Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic History -- apparently suffering from a profound crisis of identity -- will now be instructing their ...
Experts say the hoard demonstrates that many Anglo Saxon warriors – usually drawn from the noble classes – went into battle with an immense wealth of weaponry and ‘bling’.
Chronicles of the great Battle of Brunanburh describe the 937 conflict as a definitive Anglo-Saxon victory when England emerged as a united nation.
Archaeologists discovered a sixth-century sword in an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in the British county of Kent. The immaculately preserved sword was one of a handful of artifacts found at a site that ...