Anglo-Saxon Towers of Lordship

Tennyson’s knowledge of Anglo-Saxon is reassessed in order to disprove the common opinion that he had only rudimentary knowledge of the language, and relied mainly on his son’s pro...

The Norman Conquest is one of the most momentous events in English history and its consequences changed England forever. Indeed, the Battle of Hastings and its aftermath nearly wip...

Abstract This study explores the role of early medieval religious art in its historical context, focusing on England from the reign of Alfred the Great to the aft...

‘Here lies our leader all cut down, the valiant man in the dust.’ The elegiac words of the “Battle of Maldon”, an epic poem written to celebrate the bravery of an English army defe...

Fashions in Hair marked the first attempt at a comprehensive historical survey of hair styles through the ages, from Ancient Egypt through Greece, Rome and Anglo-Saxon times to rec...

This chapter argues that English culture around the year 1000 had reached an ideological crisis, in the aftermath of the Benedictine Reform movement, which had placed monasticism a...

The third volume of this pioneering series explores the manufacture and trade of textiles and their practical, fashionable, and symbolic uses. Papers include in-depth studies and c...

Ecclesiastical Sketches (1822) is an attempt to promote national ecclesiastical unity at a time when Wordsworth considered the Anglican Establishment to be threatened by the prospe...