The term Anglo-Saxon is a relatively modern one. It refers to settlers from the German regions of Angeln and Saxony, who made their way over to Britain after the fall of the Roman Empire around AD ...

You might think that the only people in medieval and early modern England were Normans, Anglo- Saxons and Vikings ... by various terms such as: ‘Black’, ‘Ethiopian’ (a word used at ...

The four Gospel writers, three of which were represented as animals, were decorated in black niello (or metallic ... is an outstanding example of the Anglo-Saxon goldsmith’s art,” added ...

In 1939 a series of mounds at Sutton Hoo in England revealed their astounding contents: the remains of an Anglo-Saxon funerary ship and a huge cache of seventh-century royal treasure. In southern ...