THE ANGLO-SAXON POETRY; STOPFORD A. BROOKE'S LEARNED HISTORY OF IT. THE HISTORY OF EARLY ENGLISH LITER ATURE. By Stopford A. Brooke. New-York: Macmillan & Co.

Most of the corpus of surviving Anglo-Saxon poetry—though it has been translated before—has had no recent, high-profile rendering until this capacious book.

The term Anglo-Saxon has been removed from a University’s module titles to tackle “nationalist narratives”. The University of Nottingham offers leading courses in Anglo-Saxon history and ...

British news outlet The Telegraph reported that the term "Anglo-Saxon" is under scrutiny at the University of Nottingham. "In a move to ‘decolonise the curriculum,’ professors have renamed a ...

The venerable dons of the Cambridge University Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic History -- apparently suffering from a profound crisis of identity -- will now be instructing their ...

My family were “stiff upper lip” white, Anglo-Saxon Protestants from the North Shore of Long Island. We never held hands when we said grace, and it was always the same. No free verse for us.

A wealthy pagan burial ground, dating from the first years of the Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain in the fifth century, has been uncovered near London ahead of a high-speed rail project.

The surprising discovery of an Anglo-Saxon feasting hall in the village of Lyminge is offering a new view of the lives ... passed down, were often the subject of later Old English works of poetry.

The last half-century of Anglo-Saxon England was perfectly framed by foreign invasions. The first was the Danish conquest of 1016 at the hands of King Cnut. This was to serve, in many ways, as the ...

Hundreds of elite Anglo-Saxon women were buried with mysterious ivory rings. Now, researchers know the ivory came from elephants living about 4,000 miles away from England.

Michael Alexander, who has died aged 82, was a translator, poet, academic and broadcaster whose scholarship was both deep and varied; his interests ranged from Old English poetry to the modernism of ...