Step into a world where small islands birthed legends and kingdoms, where warriors, kings, and myths shaped the destiny of an entire continent. Imagine a time when the British Isles were a patchwork ...

President Thomas Jefferson perpetuated the Anglo-Saxon myth as a kind of racial prophecy of white conquest, envisioning early settlers as the continuation of their Europeans forebears.

A rare Anglo-Saxon thrymsa depicts Odin with a Christian cross, offering striking evidence of pagan and Christian traditions blending in early East Anglia’s royal coinage.

Archaeologists in England have identified a near-complete Anglo-Saxon cave house. They say it might once have been the home of a king who became a saint.

Among the best preserved pieces of Anglo-Saxon metalwork, the Fuller Brooch is an ornate tribute to human perception of the moral and material worlds.

The theory of rediscovered childhood, which holds that individuals in the Middle Ages were ignorant of the distinction between childhood and adulthood, has been recently criticized by historians. An ...

A team of archaeologists have shone a light on brutal forms of punishment from Anglo-Saxon England after they discovered a skull they were analysing belonged to a girl who had her nose and lips ...

The recently reopened Sir Paul and Lady Ruddock Gallery in room 41 of the British Museum covers Europe A.D. 300-1100, and includes many artifacts excavated at an Anglo-Saxon burial mound in Sutton ...

Following a speech act analysis of "whoever" curses, we analyze a corpus of such curses in Anglo-Saxon legal documents. We discuss the structure and functions of curses and linguistic stylization.