The Anglo-Saxon kings were adept at framing laws that reflected their authority. But they had the sense to take local customs into account when doing so. Page 1 of 6 It's easy to forget, as we ...

The surprising discovery of an Anglo-Saxon feasting hall in the village of Lyminge is offering a new view of the lives of these pagan kings An aerial view of the excavations at Lyminge in southeastern ...

Beneath medieval Bamburgh Castle on England’s northeast coast lie the remains of a royal Anglo-Saxon fortress that was once the seat of the kings of Northumbria. (Colin Carter Photography/Getty Images ...

Lawrence Nees has been teaching University of Delaware students for 40 years, and lecturing around the world about art history for even longer than that, but he’s about to deliver what he calls ...

The five centuries between the end of Roman rule and the Norman Conquest were, for a long time, seen as a culturally desolate era in British history. Whereas classical civilisation was associated with ...

Very few people in England ate large amounts of meat before the Vikings settled, and there is no evidence that elites ate more meat than other people, a major new bioarchaeological study suggests. Its ...

The struggles for supremacy over Anglo Saxon England are being played out once again as The Last Kingdom returns. Netflix has dropped season four of the gripping and often bloody historical drama ...

Contrary to popular belief, the ruling classes gorged on meat only on rare occasions, according to an analysis of more than 2,000 skeletons buried during medieval times. By Maria Cramer Anglo-Saxon ...

The ancestry of early Anglo-Saxons, a subject of some debate, included immigrants from continental Europe as well as people indigenous to Great Britain, according to a study published June 23, 2021 in ...

So how did such early societies create an allegiance? How do you create a sense of mutual obligation and responsibility in a people? It is of course a frequently asked question even today - the ...