This book is about the Divine Office and its performance in Anglo-Saxon England. The Divine Office comprises the several non-sacramental services of psalmody, lections, and prayers recited daily by ...

Eric Bloodaxe, the Viking ruler of York, was killed by the Wessex army in 954 and England was united under ... story of Hengist and Horsa in AD 449. Anglo-Saxon rule came to an end in 1066 ...

The University of Nottingham in England has deleted the term Anglo-Saxon from several programs as part of a larger effort to ...

A major university in England is reportedly distancing itself from the term "Anglo-Saxon" out of concern it evokes an ...

Although we call the language spoken by the Anglo-Saxons “Old English,” English speakers today won’t find much in common ...

Only one other Anglo-Saxon temple or cult site has previously been found in England The discovery of a ... convert to Christianity and who died in AD 625, is believed to be buried there.

For the common folk of England, life in the eleventh century was often “poor, nasty, brutish and short,” as armies of Anglo-Saxons, Danes ... The Fall of the Eternal City, AD 410 (2022). What we know ...

How is it that a story written by an unknown author more than 1,000 years ago still captures ... a poem once told in timber-framed barns in Anglo-Saxon England, to the raucous noise of the mead ...

Today's Object of the Week is a monument to the prehistoric remains of an Anglo-Saxon palace ... of Ad Gefrin, to the text it now carries. Thanks to David Simpson of the England's North East ...

Despite this adversity, a rich Anglo-Saxon culture ... Romans in 79 AD as Deva Victrix, is one of the UK's best-preserved ...

When did Anglo-Saxon monks begin to recite the daily hours of prayer, the Divine Office, according to the liturgical pattern prescribed in the Rule of St Benedict? Going beyond the simplistic ...

Gildas, a British monk, wrote 'The Ruin of Britain', the only near-contemporary source for the collapse of Roman Britain and the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons ... to England in 596 AD, probably ...