This gives us an idea of how difficult life could be in early medieval England. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle close Anglo-Saxon ChronicleA collection of manuscripts written while Alfred the Great was ...

Aethelred failed to prepare for the Viking raids and invasions that would later bring Cnut to the throne of England, forging ...

Instead, it reveals a deeper history of aristocratic life, one that extends beyond castles and into the grand halls of the Anglo-Saxon nobility. By reevaluating these forgotten sites, researchers are ...

Elite Anglo-Saxon residences were often built near churches ... “This is precisely what brings the past to life. … It adds texture to the picture we have of Harold and the world he inhabited.” ...

His decision to take the job not only would change his life but also radically alter, and deepen, the understanding scholars had of the early Anglo-Saxon period in England following the collapse ...