So how did such early societies create an allegiance? How do you create a sense of mutual obligation and responsibility in a people? It is of course a frequently asked question even today - the ...

British folklore tells the story of twin brothers Hengist and Horsa, who led the Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain. But were they men or myth?

IN an interesting paper, quoted at p. 661 of NATURE, Prof. Rolleston dwells upon the proportion of short-lived male skeletons, found in Anglo-Saxon interments, as contrasted with the older character ...

THERE are numerous points of general and living interest relating to the Anglo-Saxon conquest of this country which are very largely dependent upon archæological research for their elucidation.

Picture the scene. An expectant audience, which includes the great Catholic writer, J. R. R. Tolkien, awaits the arrival of another great Catholic writer, Hilaire Belloc, the latter of whom has been ...

Anglo-Saxon England by FM Stenton (Oxford, 1943 and later editions). A classic text. The Anglo Saxons by J Campbell (Phaidon, 1982). Wonderfully illustrated. The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo Saxon ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Peter Rutland, Wesleyan University and Elizaveta Gaufman, University of Groningen (THE ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Well, that is what the Kremlin wants the world to believe. Take the new Russian ...