Besides the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the medieval writers William of Malmesbury, Henry of Huntingdon, and Geoffrey of Monmouth used his works as sources and inspirations.

Dating back at least to early Anglo-Saxon times, it originally referred to the length of the furrow in one acre of a ploughed open field ( a medieval communal field which was divided into strips ).

In many ways the Smaug episode reflects and references the dragon of Beowulf, and Tolkien uses the episode to put into practice some of the ground-breaking literary theories he had developed about the Anglo-Saxon poem and its early medieval portrayal of the dragon as having bestial intelligence.

Stratford has Anglo-Saxon origins, and grew up as a market town in medieval times.

The first ' Bermondsey ' is that known as the location of an Anglo-Saxon monastery, and known from later charters to be the area around the post-Conquest Bermondsey Abbey and its manor, which was in turn part of the medieval parish.

Cædmon is one of twelve Anglo-Saxon poets identified in medieval sources, and one of only three for whom both roughly contemporary biographical information and examples of literary output have survived.

Some medieval sources state that Stigand took part in the negotiations that reached a peace between the king and his earl, and the Canterbury manuscript of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle calls Stigand the king's chaplain and advisor during the negotiations.

A church is recorded in The Domesday Survey ( 1086 ) as belonging to the manor of Gipton and Colton, and as Whitkirk is the only known medieval church in these area of Leeds, it is reasonable to assume that it is Whitkirk church that is being referred to, in which case it must have a late Anglo-Saxon origin at least.

Livingston identified at least fifty-three medieval sources containing references to the battle, including important accounts from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the writings of Anglo-Norman historian William of Malmesbury, the Annals of Clonmacnoise, and Snorri Sturluson's Egils saga, whose antihero, mercenary berserker and skald Egill Skallagrimsson, served as a trusted warrior for Athelstan.

Widespread in 10th century Anglo-Saxon England, minsters declined in importance with the systematic introduction of parishes and parish churches from the 11th century onwards ; but remained a title of diginity in later medieval England for instances where a cathedral, monastery, collegiate church or parish church had originated with an Anglo-Saxon foundation.

Once thought to be Anglo-Saxon, it is now recognised as being of the same period as the medieval chapel above.

The common name Black Curlew may be a reference to the Glossy Ibis and this name appears in Anglo-Saxon literature, indicating that it may have bred in early medieval England but Walden & Albarella do not mention this species.

Hrothgar appears in the Anglo-Saxon epics Beowulf and Widsith, and also in Norse sagas, Norse poems, and medieval Danish chronicles.

A system of elective monarchy existed in Anglo-Saxon England ( see Witenagemot ), the Kingdom of Hawaii, Visigothic Spain, and medieval Scandinavia and in the Principality of Transylvania.

During the Anglo-Saxon period and well into medieval times, most of this part of south Gloucestershire was covered with forest.

A further name for the area is Aldport which is Anglo-Saxon and means " the old port " (" port " once had the meaning of " trading place ", not necessarily on a waterway, and " the new port " was the main site of medieval Manchester near the confluence of the rivers Irk and Irwell ).

Anglo-Saxon Charters are documents from the early medieval period in Britain which typically make a grant of land or record a privilege.

There is a medieval monastery ( St. Paul's Church, AD 681 ), an Anglo-Saxon farm with rare breed animals and buildings constructed in original materials from that period, and the Georgian Jarrow Hall.

A village has stood on the site since long before the Norman conquest The early history of Felixstowe, including its Roman, Anglo-Saxon, Norman and medieval defences, is told under the name of Walton, because the name Felixstowe was given retrospectively, during the 13th century, to a place which had already been important for well over a thousand years.

Spellings from the Anglo-Saxon period include Lig ( e ) an in 880 and Lygan in 895, and in the early medieval period it is usually Luye or Leye.

Thomas Alan Shippey ( born 9 September 1943 ) is a scholar of medieval literature, including that of Anglo-Saxon England, medievalism, and of modern fantasy and science fiction, in particular the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, about whom he has written several scholarly studies.

The area including the Fylde was known in Anglo-Saxon and medieval times as Amounderness.

In western Britain beyond Anglo-Saxon influence, in Cornwall and South Wales particularly, enclosed settlements share many characteristics with their Irish counterparts including the circular form and occurrence of souterrains ( fogous ) and their continuing occupation into the early medieval period ; the form later influencing the distinctive circular shell-keeps found across the medieval ' Severnside ' region.

According to the medieval chronicler John of Worcester, Ealdred was given the see of Ramsbury to administer while Herman remained outside England.

There have been settlements there since the medieval period, likely in the Grange Lane and Black Abbey area, and the King's Highway which passes above the town was at one time used by the kings and queens of England when they used the area for hunting when the Forest of Accrington was one of the four forests of the hundred of Blackburnshire.

In medieval England, boroughs were also entitled to elect members of parliament.

The forms of parish worship in the late medieval church in England, which followed the Latin Roman Rite, varied according to local practice.

In late medieval England, congregations regularly received Communion only at Easter ; and otherwise individual lay people might expect to receive Communion only when gravely ill, or in the form of a Nuptial Mass on being married.

The Domesday Book was undertaken in 1086 by William I of England so that he could properly tax the land he had recently conquered in medieval Europe.

The ancestor of the class action was what modern observers call " group litigation ," which appears to have been quite common in medieval England from about 1200 onward.

Even past the medieval times, characteristics of a closed social systems that define any caste system, existed in England through the modern times.

In historical terms, Hastings can claim fame through its connection with the Norman conquest of England ; and also because it became one of the medieval Cinque Ports.

Habeas corpus is a Latin phrase, which can be literally translated as “( we command ) that you have the body ” or " you should arrest " the conventional incipit of medieval arrest warrants in England.

During the late medieval period, King Henry V of England ( lived 1387-1422 ) ordered the use of the English of his day in proceedings before him and before the government bureaucracies.

The island of Jersey and the other Channel Islands represent the last remnants of the medieval Duchy of Normandy that held sway in both France and England.

In part, however, the apologists of royal authority based their claims on a just assessment of the powers claimed by England and Scotland's medieval monarchs.

The Jews, who held a vulnerable position in medieval England, protected only by the king, were subject to huge taxes ; £ 44, 000 was extracted from the community by the tallage of 1210 ; much of it was passed on to the Christian debtors of Jewish moneylenders.

Historians in the " Whiggish " tradition, focusing on documents such as the Domesday Book and Magna Carta, trace a progressive and universalist course of political and economic development in England over the medieval period.

Beer stone was a popular kind of limestone for medieval buildings in southern England.

* New England ( medieval ), an area on the north coast of the Black Sea said to have been colonised by Anglo-Saxons in the 11th century

The term “ penny ”, as it refers to nails, probably originated in medieval England to describe the price of 100 nails.

In The High Crusade, aliens who land in medieval England in the expectation of an easy conquest find that they are not immune to swords and arrows.

Since medieval times monarchs of England and the United Kingdom had ministers in whom they placed special trust and who were regarded as the head of the government.

The House of Lombard was a banking family in medieval London, England.

Though the Napoleonic code was among the first government acts of modern times to introduce the notion of absolute ownership into statute, protection of personal property rights was present in medieval Islamic law and jurisprudence, and in more feudalist forms in the common law courts of medieval and early modern England.

Another interesting record of medieval rhetorical thought can be seen in the many animal debate poems popular in England and the continent during the Middle Ages, such as The Owl and the Nightingale ( 13th century ) and Geoffrey Chaucer's Parliament of Fowls ( 1382?