Anglo-Saxon art refers to the type of early medieval English art developed by the Anglo-Saxons, a cultural group and confederation of three Germanic peoples (namely Angles, Saxons, and Jutes) who sailed to and settled Britain from continental Europe (more specifically from present-day northern Germany and Jutland, Denmark) beginning in the 5th century. Anglo-Saxon art encompassed…
The Anglo-Saxons were an ethnic, linguistic, and cultural mixture of three Germanic peoples (i.e. the Angles, the Saxons, and the Jutes, according to medieval chronicler Saint Bede the Venerable) which migrated from what is now Denmark (more specifically the Jutland peninsula) and northern Germany (more specifically the states of Schleswig-Holstein, most notably the Angeln peninsula,…
The following article consists of an academic essay/assignment of mine in the course ‘The History of the British Isles’ as part of my MA degree in British culture and civilisation at 좘tefan cel Mare University of Suceava (USV). Introduction The Battle of Hastings took place in the year 1066 was undoubtedly a very important event…
Long before either the region of New England in contemporary northeastern United States of America or the namesake region of New South Wales in Australia existed there could have likely been an Anglo-Saxon colony bearing this name established near the shores of the Black Sea in Eastern Europe. Two historical documents dating to the Middle…
Millennium A.D. is a total conversion mod pack made for the free and open source real time strategy video game 0 A.D. which introduces two brand new playable civilisations (for the current version), specifically the Anglo-Saxons and the Norsemen. It resets the timeline of the original game from Antiquity to the medieval era. Consequently, the…
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