Early Medieval Settlement and Social Power: The Middle Anglo-Saxon ‘Home Farm’

Anglo-saxon leechbooks.

Is it necessary to assume an apartheid-like social structure in Early Anglo-Saxon England?

It has recently been argued that there was an apartheid-like social structure operating in Early Anglo-Saxon England. This was proposed in order to explain the relatively high degree of similarity between Germanic-speaking areas of northwest Europe and England. Opinions vary as to whether there was a substantial Germanic invasion or only a relatively small number arrived in Britain during this ...

Anglo-saxon Others in the Spanish Imagination

This paper aims to contribute to contemporary research on Spanish images of Englishness and thus on cross-cultural otherness. More precisely, it seeks to identify and describe the composite image of Anglo-Saxon Others as portrayed in ten nineteenth century Spanish history books and to critically discuss the results. Despite Anglo-Saxon England being a marginal issue for nineteenth century Spani...

The medical practitioner in Anglo-Saxon England.

Evidence for an apartheid-like social structure in early Anglo-Saxon England.

The role of migration in the Anglo-Saxon transition in England remains controversial. Archaeological and historical evidence is inconclusive, but current estimates of the contribution of migrants to the English population range from less than 10000 to as many as 200000. In contrast, recent studies based on Y-chromosome variation posit a considerably higher contribution to the modern English gen...