While much remains unknown about Queen Emma as an individual, her story offers a fascinating entrance into the tumultuous world of late Anglo-Saxon England. Daughter of the duke of Normandy, descended ...

Tore Skeie, trans. from the Norwegian by Alison McCullough. Pushkin, $19.95 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-78227-835-1 Medieval historian Skeie makes his English-language debut with a gripping, ...

Scene from the Bayeux Tapestry, which famously depicts William the Conqueror's victory over the so-called Anglo-Saxons Public domain via Wikimedia Commons People in the United States and Great Britain ...

The Vikings invaded England in the 9th and 10th centuries. They plundered, raped and burned towns to the ground. Or at least, this is the story we know from school and popular culture. Nevertheless, ...

Archaeologists may have discovered remains of a hall which belonged to the last Anglo-Saxon King of England. Harold Godwinson's death at the hands of Norman conquerors at the Battle of Hastings ...