The settlement of Great Britain by diverse Germanic peoples, who eventually developed a common cultural identity as Anglo-Saxons, changed the language and culture of most of what became England from See more

The act of surveying the historical sources for signs of the Anglo-Saxon settlement assumes that the words Angles, Saxons, or Anglo-Saxon have the same meaning in all the sources. … See more

Archaeologists seeking to understand evidence for migration and/or acculturation must first get to grips with early Anglo-Saxon archaeology … See more

Various scholars have used a synthesis of evidence to present models to suggest an answer to the questions that surround the Anglo-Saxon … See more

By 400, the Roman provinces in Britain (all the territory to the south of Hadrian's Wall) were a peripheral part of the Roman Empire, occasionally lost to rebellion or invasion, but until … See more

Explaining linguistic change, and particularly the rise of Old English, is crucial in any account of the Anglo-Saxon settlement of … See more

Researchers have employed various forms of molecular evidence to investigate the relative importance of immigration, the acculturation of … See more