Beads of amethyst were found in Anglo-Saxon graves in England.

* Ambrose in Anglo-Saxon England, with Pseudo-Ambrose and Ambrosiaster, Contributions to Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture, by Dabney Anderson Bankert, Jessica Wegmann, and Charles D. Wright.

Category: Latin texts of Anglo-Saxon England

Ealdred ( or Aldred ; died 11 September 1069 ) was Abbot of Tavistock, Bishop of Worcester, and Archbishop of York in Anglo-Saxon England.

The Angles were one of the main groups that settled in Britain in the post-Roman period, founding several of the kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England, and their name is the root of the name England.

Category: Peoples of Anglo-Saxon England

** Anglo-Saxon England, their history

Shortly after Gildas's time the Anglo-Saxon advance was resumed, and by the late 6th century nearly all of southern England was under the control of the continental invaders.

The events described in the poem take place in the late 5th century, after the Anglo-Saxons had begun their migration to England, and before the beginning of the 7th century, a time when the Anglo-Saxon people were either newly arrived or still in close contact with their Germanic kinsmen in Scandinavia and Northern Germany.

The view of J. R. R. Tolkien is that the poem retains a much too genuine memory of Anglo-Saxon paganism to have been composed more than a few generations after the completion of the Christianisation of England around AD 700.

The celebration of deeds of ancient Danish and Swedish heroes, the poem beginning with a tribute to the royal line of Danish kings, but written in the dominant literary dialect of Anglo-Saxon England, for a number of scholars points to the 11th century reign of Canute, the Danish king whose empire included all of these areas, and whose primary place of residence was in England, as the most likely time of the poem's creation, the poem being written as a celebration of the king's heroic royal ancestors, perhaps intended as a form of artistic flattery by one of his English courtiers.

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 ".

* Dumville, David " The Terminology of Overkingship in Early Anglo-Saxon England.

" In The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England, ed.

" In Bede and Anglo-Saxon England.

Initially, Old English was a diverse group of dialects, reflecting the varied origins of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms of England.

These continental codes were all composed in Latin, whilst Anglo-Saxon was used for those of England, beginning with the Code of Ethelbert of Kent ( 602 ).

Ceawlin was active during the last years of the Anglo-Saxon invasion, with little of southern England remaining in the control of the native Britons by the time of his death.

These peoples captured territory in the east and south of England, but at about the end of the fifth century, a British victory at the battle of Mons Badonicus halted the Anglo-Saxon advance for fifty years.

Compared to neighbouring Ireland and Anglo-Saxon England, few records of 9th-and 10th-century events in Scotland survive.

In medieval Anglo-Saxon England, society was organized, according to Alfred the Great into three hierarchical orders: Gebedmen ( men who pray ), Fyrdmen ( men who fight ), Weorcmen ( men who work ).

The most important English chronicles are the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, started under the patronage of King Alfred in the 9th century and continued until the 12th century, and the Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland ( 1577 – 87 ) by Raphael Holinshed and other writers ; the latter documents were important sources of materials for Elizabethan drama.

It uses a distinctive form of the general Celtic Early Medieval development of La Tène style with increasing influences from the Insular art of 7th and 8th century Ireland and Northumbria, and then Anglo-Saxon and Irish art as the Early Medieval period continues.

Early Middle English ( 1100 – 1300 ) has a largely Anglo-Saxon vocabulary ( with many Norse borrowings in the northern parts of the country ), but a greatly simplified inflectional system.

Bacup emerged as a settlement following the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain in the Early Middle Ages.

* Keynes, Simon, ' Royal government and the written word in late Anglo-Saxon England ' in The Uses of Literacy in Early Medieval Europe.

* Yorke, Barbara, Kings and Kingdoms in Early Anglo-Saxon England.

" The Council of Whitby: A Study in Early Anglo-Saxon Politics ", in Journal of British Studies, 23 ( 1984 )

* Yorke, Barbara, Kings and Kingdoms in Early Anglo-Saxon England.

* Campbell, James, " Elements in the Background to the Life of St Cuthbert and his Early Cult " in The Anglo-Saxon State.

* Yorke, Barbara, Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England.

Early examples of fines include the Weregild or blood money payable under Anglo-Saxon common law for causing a death.

* Deshman, Robert, " Saint Swithun in Early Medieval Art ," in Idem, Eye and Mind: Collected Essays in Anglo-Saxon and Early Medieval Art Edited by Adam Cohen ( Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 2010 ) ( Publications of the Richard Rawlinson Center ).

The architectural character of Anglo-Saxon ecclesiastical buildings range from Celtic influenced architecture in the early period ; Early Christian basilica influenced architecture ; and in the later Anglo-Saxon period, an architecture characterised by pilaster-strips, blank arcading, baluster shafts and triangular headed openings.

Early Anglo-Saxon buildings in Britain were generally simple, constructed mainly using timber with thatch for roofing.

Founded by Keiller in 1938, the collections feature artefacts mostly of Neolithic and Early Bronze Age date, with other items from the Anglo-Saxon and later periods.

Relics found at a tumulus in Chadderton Fold date from the Early Middle Ages, probably from the early period of Anglo-Saxon England, when Angles settled in the area and Chadderton emerged as a manor of the hundred of Salford.

Power and Religious Affiliation in Early Anglo-Saxon England.

Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England.

Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England.

The Early Middle Ages in the West includes the work of Gregory the Great and Bede, as well as developments in Celtic Christianity and Anglo-Saxon Christianity, and comes to fulfillment in the work of Johannes Scotus Eriugena and the Carolingian Renaissance.

The historian Dáibhí Ó Cróinín has proposed that the idea of the tanáise ríg in Early Medieval Ireland was adopted from the Anglo-Saxon, specifically Northumbrian, concept of the ætheling.