This gives us an idea of how difficult life could be in early medieval England. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle close Anglo-Saxon ChronicleA collection of manuscripts written while Alfred the Great was ...

AD for this one. According to the writings of Venerable Bede, an Anglo-Saxon deity named Ēostre was accompanied by a hare or rabbit because she represented the rejuvenation and fertility of springtime ...

His decision to take the job not only would change his life but also radically alter, and deepen, the understanding scholars had of the early Anglo-Saxon period in England following the collapse ...