and illustrate the rich cultural variety of Anglo-Saxon England. This second edition is an accessible and scholarly introduction to Old English. Review of previous edition: '… offering a bountiful ...

Although we call the language spoken by the Anglo-Saxons “Old English,” English speakers today won’t find much in common between it and the language we have now. More than 1000 years ago ...

As Maitland saw, understanding the meaning of the hide – in Old English híd, híwisc, or híwscipe – is pivotal to some of the most important debates about Anglo-Saxon England. At their heart, these ...

But the early Anglo-Saxons were not Christians ... when he was just seven years old. Bede wrote a book called 'A History of the English Church and People' in AD730. This was the story of the ...

Archaeologists from Oxford Archaeology have uncovered the original eastern defensive line of the late Saxon town of Oxford ... perimeter — built by the Anglo-Saxons according to the model ...

The war began as a war between England and France for the French throne, in fact, if we take into account all the allies of ...

Although some Romanized Britons were Christian, the pagan Anglo-Saxons drove believers into a tiny remnant ... The Spanish ...

Tolkien, who was a professor of Anglo-Saxon English, completed his own translation ... "It's bit like an old-fashioned dance step; like a quickstep, it advances quite slowly, one step forward ...

The recovery of 44 Anglo-Saxon coins that were hawked on the international black market has helped reshape historians' understanding of English history ... and 75-year-old Pilling is just the ...

England’s capture of Thomas Tuchel is a genuinely exhilarating moment. It represents a rejection of the stubborn, ...