* Anglo-Saxon accounting, accounting methodology used in English-speaking countries-see Anglo-Saxon economy

The term " Anglo-Saxon " can be used in a variety of contexts, often to identify the English-speaking world's distinctive language, culture, technology, wealth, markets, economy, and legal systems.

* Anglo-Saxon economy

In the Anglo-Saxon times, Bromsgrove had a woodland economy consisting of hunting, maintenance of haies and pig farming.

Dr John Maddicott has published works on the political and social history of England in the 13th and 14th centuries, and has also written a number of leading articles on the Anglo-Saxon economy, his second area of interest.

* Anglo-Saxon economy

* Anglo-Saxon economy

An Anglo-Saxon economy or Anglo-Saxon capitalism ( so called because it is supposedly practiced in English-speaking countries such as the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Ireland ) is a capitalist macroeconomic model in which levels of regulation and taxes are low, and government provides relatively fewer services.

Proponents of the term Anglo-Saxon economy state that Anglo-Saxon economies are more " liberal " and free market-oriented than other capitalist economies.

It was in the Anglo-Saxon interest that the native British carry on as usual to ensure the economy produced food and goods for the new landowners.

One modern historian feels that it was Ealdred who was behind the compilation of the D version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and gives a date in the 1050s as its composition.

The modern English term Easter developed from the Old English word Ēastre or Ēostre (), which itself developed prior to 899, originally referring to the name of the Anglo-Saxon goddess Ēostre.

The letter ð was used throughout the Anglo-Saxon era, but gradually fell out of use in Middle English, practically disappearing altogether by 1300 ; þ survived longer, ultimately being replaced by the modern digraph th by about 1500.

Examples of goddesses attested in Norse mythology include Frigg ( wife of Odin, and the Anglo-Saxon version of whom is namesake of the modern English weekday Friday ), Skaði ( one time wife of Njörðr ), Njerda ( Scandinavian name of Nerthus ), that also was married to Njörðr during Bronze Age, Freyja ( wife of Óðr ), Sif ( wife of Thor ), Gerðr ( wife of Freyr ), and personifications such as Jörð ( earth ), Sól ( the sun ), and Nótt ( night ).

That poem in turn appears to have been the principal source for the famous Anglo-Saxon poem to which the modern title The Phoenix is given.

In its modern usage, the idea that a part of the Americas has affinity with the Romance cultures as a whole can be traced back to the 1830s, in the writing of the French Saint-Simonian Michel Chevalier, who postulated that this part of the Americas was inhabited by people of a " Latin race " and that it could, therefore, ally itself with " Latin Europe " in a struggle with " Teutonic Europe ", " Anglo-Saxon America " and " Slavic Europe ".

In modern times, " Heathen " and " Heathenry " are increasingly used to refer to those branches of Paganism inspired by the pre-Christian religions of the Germanic, Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon peoples.

The history of pubs can be traced back to Roman taverns, through the Anglo-Saxon alehouse to the development of the modern tied house system in the 19th century.

The geneticist Stephen Oppenheimer carried out an extensive research of the British Isles, finding that the Celtic and Anglo-Saxon influx had little effect, with the majority of British ethnicity tracing back from an ancient Palaeolithic Iberian migration, now represented by the Basques so that 75 % of the modern British population could ( in theory ) trace their ancestry back 15, 000 years.

Yule is attested early in the history of the Germanic peoples ; from the 4th century Gothic language it appears in the month name, and, in the 8th century, the English historian Bede wrote that the Anglo-Saxon calendar included the months geola or giuli corresponding with either modern December or December and January.

" Anglo-Saxon " in linguistics is still used as a term for the original West Germanic component of the modern English language, which was later expanded and developed through the influence of Old Norse and Norman French, though linguists now more often refer to it as Old English.

In Cuthbert's time the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Northumbria included, in modern terms, northern England as well as south-eastern Scotland as far north as the Firth of Forth.

Heaney's prize-winning translation of Beowulf ( Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000, Whitbread Book of the Year Award ) was seen as ground-breaking in its use of modern language melded with the original Anglo-Saxon ' music '.

Rohirric bears a similar relationship to Westron, the Common Speech of Middle-earth, as that of Old English to modern English, and so Tolkien rendered Rohirric names and phrases into Old English ( English of the Anglo-Saxon period ), just as the Common Speech is translated into English.

Cerdic ( from the early British name represented by modern Welsh Caradog ) was probably the first King of Anglo-Saxon Wessex from 519 to 534, cited by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as the founder of the kingdom of Wessex and ancestor of all its subsequent kings.

* Anglo-Saxon, a progenitor language of modern English

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle tells us that they won the Battle of Crecganford ( Crecganford is thought to be modern Crayford ) in 457, slaying many men in the process, and shortly after claimed the whole of Kent.

This manuscript is one of four main sources for modern knowledge of Anglo-Saxon poetry.

Whatever the cause, due to this linguistic ( if not cultural ) replacement, most place names in modern England are discernibly Anglo-Saxon.

According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Wulfhere endowed a major monastery at Medeshamstede, in modern Peterborough.

Though the name " Camelot " may be derived from Camulodunum ( modern Colchester ), the Iron Age capital of the Trinovantes, and later the provincial capital of Roman Britannia, its Essex location close to the east coast-and so very close to the earliest Anglo-Saxon settlement-places it in the wrong Anglo-Saxon kingdom.

** Old English language, Anglo-Saxon, the ancestor of modern English

In 1991, Steven Fanning argued that " it is unlikely that the term ever existed as a title or was in common usage in Anglo-Saxon England ".

Here, again, a new term appears in the record, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the first time using the word scottas, from which Scots derives, to describe the inhabitants of Constantine's kingdom in its report of these events.

The English term Friday derives from the Anglo-Saxon name for Frigg, Frige.

* from Moot as an Old English language ( Anglo-Saxon ) term for meeting

In the Anglo-Saxon world, the term philology to describe work on languages and literatures, which had become synonymous with the practices of German scholars, was abandoned as a consequence of anti-German feeling following World War I.

From the Greek paroikia, the dwellingplace of the priest, eighth Archbishop of Canterbury Theodore of Tarsus ( c. 602 – 690 ) applied to the Anglo-Saxon township unit, where it existed, the ecclesiastical term parish.

In the 19th century the term " Anglo-Saxon " was broadly used in philology, and is sometimes so used at present.

James Anthony Froude, Charles Kingsley and Edward A. Freeman used the term " Anglo-Saxon " to justify racism and imperialism, claiming that the " Anglo-Saxon " ancestry of the English made them racially superior to the colonised peoples.

The term " Anglo-Saxon " is sometimes used to refer to peoples descended or associated in some way with the English ethnic group.

In contemporary Anglophone cultures outside the United Kingdom, the term is most commonly found in certain contexts, such as the term " White Anglo-Saxon Protestant " or " WASP ".

Such terms are often politicised, and bear little connection to the precise ethnological or historical definition of the term " Anglo-Saxon ".

Outside Anglophone countries, both in Europe and in the rest of the world, the term " Anglo-Saxon " and its direct translations are used to refer to the Anglophone peoples and societies of Britain, the United States, and other countries such as Australia, Canada and New Zealand – areas which are sometimes referred to as the Anglosphere.

As with the English language use of the term, what constitutes the " Anglo-Saxon " varies from speaker to speaker.

The cognate term in Old English is ( plural ) denoting a deity in Anglo-Saxon paganism.

The term Anglo-Saxon thus reflects King Alfred's diplomatic integration of the Mercians Angles and the Saxons.

The word shilling comes from scilling, an accounting term that dates back to Anglo-Saxon times where it was deemed to be the value of a cow in Kent or a sheep elsewhere.

The Scottish title Laird is a shortened form of ' laverd ' which is an old Scottish word deriving from an Anglo-Saxon term meaning ' Lord ' and is also derived from the middle English word ' Lard ' also meaning ' Lord '.

From the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms the term spread to several other regions, at an early point to Scotland, latterly to Ireland, and to the United States.

Some Anglo-Saxon histories ( in context ) refer to the Romano-British people by the blanket term " Welsh ".