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17 hours ago · History of England. Anglo-Saxon England or Early Medieval England, existing from the 5th to the 11th centuries from soon after the end of Roman Britain until the Norman Conquest in 1066, consisted of various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms until 927, when it was united as the Kingdom of England by King Æthelstan (r. 927–939).
- Anglo-Saxon Settlement of Britain
Explaining linguistic change, and particularly the rise of...
- Escomb Church
Escomb Church is the Church of England parish church of...
- Englishry
Englishry or, in Old French, Englescherie, is a legal name...
- Anglo-Saxon Settlement of Britain
1 day ago · Alfred the Great (also spelled Ælfred; c. 849 – 26 October 899) was King of the West Saxons from 871 to 886, and King of the Anglo-Saxons from 886 until his death in 899. He was the youngest son of King Æthelwulf and his first wife Osburh, who both died when Alfred was young.
- 23 April 871 – c. 886
- Osburh
2 days ago · Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, [1] in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. It is one of the largest branches of Christianity, with around 110 million adherents worldwide as of 2001.
5 days ago · Church of England, English national church that traces its history back to the arrival of Christianity in Britain during the 2nd century. It has been the original church of the Anglican Communion since the 16th-century Protestant Reformation. Learn more about the Church of England in this article.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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4 days ago · Episcopal Culture in Late Anglo-Saxon England. Woodbridge, Boydell & Brewer, 2007, ISBN: 9781843832836; 264pp.; Price: £50.00. Bishops, in theory the central figures in the Anglo-Saxon Church, have received polarized, and sometimes unbalanced, treatment from its historians. Reacting against the assumption—drawn uncritically from universal ...
21 hours ago · Anglo-Saxon England. The invaders and their early settlements. The social system; The conversion to Christianity; The golden age of Bede; The heptarchy. The supremacy of Northumbria and the rise of Mercia; The great age of Mercia; The church and scholarship in Offa’s time; The decline of Mercia and the rise of Wessex; The period of the ...
17 hours ago · The Wealth of Anglo-Saxon England. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2013, ISBN: 9780199253937; 168pp.; Price: £25.00. Peter Sawyer is one of our most distinguished Anglo-Saxon or, perhaps better, Anglo-Scandinavian historians. His annotated list of Anglo-Saxon charters, now revised by Susan Kelly, available online and happily known as ‘the ...
