This 11th century manuscript binding from the abbey of St. Denis includes ornate details and shapes that demonstrate connections with Anglo-Saxon styles (image courtesy of the BnF).

With globalisation establishing English as the planet’s lingua franca, the largest ever exhibition of pre-1066 Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, the first to be written in English, could not be more ...

More broadly, terms like “early medieval English” and “insular Saxons” are used in lieu of “Anglo-Saxon.” Their own manuscripts, meanwhile most often use “Englisc” to describe ...

The U.S. professor and the Danish publisher fell to talking about Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, a subject of deep interest to both. Kemp Malone, Professor of English Literature at Johns Hopkins ...

One of the earliest known medical textbooks in the English language is Bald’s Leechbook, a three-volume anthology (the third of which is believed to be independent) of Anglo-Saxon cures ...

Visitors to the country’s second oldest cathedral will see projections on the walls of illuminated Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, art and architecture, revealing the “rich artistry” of the Dark Ages.

Their worried were well founded: In 934 A.D., the Anglo-Saxons invaded a portion of Alba (now Scotland). Constantine, king of Alba, gave over some of his territory and appeased the Anglo-Saxon king.

A 1,000-year-old manuscript has been missing for centuries, and fragments of it have finally been recovered. ... Old English, or Anglo-Saxon, was spoken between A.D. 500 and 1100 in Britain.

Visitors to the country’s second oldest cathedral will see projections on the walls of illuminated Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, art and architecture, revealing the “rich artistry” of the Dark Ages.