Learn more about this gentle, Christ-like Anglo-Saxon monk and his sermons in God of Mercy: Ælfric’s Sermons and Theology (Mercer University Press, 2006) by Carmen Acevedo Butcher.

When this object was made, The Venerable Bede - monk, historian and scientist, was a monk at this monastery.Part of an early 8th century frieze from St Paul's Monastery in Jarrow, this carved ...

Anglo-Saxon monasteries were more resilient to Viking attacks than previously thought, archaeologists have concluded. Lyminge, a monastery in Kent, was on the front line of long-running Viking ...

Local tradition holds that in A.D. 700, a Christian monk named Guthlac sought out the spot and became a recluse, choosing a life of devotion and abstinence surrounded by what was then marshland.

British news outlet The Telegraph reported that the term "Anglo-Saxon" is under scrutiny at the University of Nottingham. "In a move to ‘decolonise the curriculum,’ professors have renamed a ...

Only one other Anglo-Saxon temple or cult site has previously been found in England The discovery of a 1,400-year-old "possible temple" near Sutton Hoo is the latest in a series of archaeological ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a key component of a mysterious artifact at Sutton Hoo, a National Trust site in Suffolk, England, famous for the seventh century Anglo-Saxon “ghost ship” burial ...

The last Anglo-Saxon King of England. Harold Godwinson (Harold II) ruled for only nine months in 1066 before he was killed in the critical Battle of Hastings. His residence Bosham, on the coast of ...