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).

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 ...

In adjoining cases were the Old English poem “Genesis,” five of the seven known copies of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the unique text of “Asser’s Life of King Alfred,” two of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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.