Somewhere in England, buried in soil for more than a millennium, two silver pennies lay hidden with an image no other Anglo-Saxon coin carried: a lamb bearing a cross, the Christian symbol known as ...

Long before modern England came to be, Brixworth’s All Saints’ Church stood as an important landmark in the heart of Britain’s Anglo-Saxon territory. Ever heard of Brixworth, England? If you said no, ...

Scientific research shows that rather than a victim of invasion, early medieval Britain was a cultural melting pot ...

What was the most important battle in English history? If you answered the Battle of Hastings, the 1066 A.D. conflict in which the Normans successfully took over the English crown, you’re not alone.

It’s official. The Anglo-Saxons are getting canceled. The move comes more than 1,000 years too late for the previously ascendant Romano-British who couldn’t resist these Germanic peoples who showed up ...

Tore Skeie, trans. from the Norwegian by Alison McCullough. Pushkin, $19.95 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-78227-835-1 Medieval historian Skeie makes his English-language debut with a gripping, ...