The Weapons of War in Anglo-Saxon England
War was a way of life to the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes who invaded and settled in Britain. They were fleeing the encroaching Romans,...
Anglo-Saxon Infighting: Everyone Wants to Be King
In the last article, the focus was on the settlement and leaders of the various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. Much of this information is verifiable from...
The Heptarchy: Anglo-Saxon Ascendancy
Let us take a step back from religious fervor for a moment and focus on the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms themselves.
The Heptarchy: Anglo-Saxon Ascendancy The first...
The Synod of Whitby: Turning Point for Christian Britain
The Christianization of Saxon lands was rolling right along in the early 7th century. Kent was the first to convert; then came Essex and...
Patrick and Columba: The Beginnings of Celtic Christianity
The names of Patrick and Columba are giants in the study of the spread of Christianity in Britain.
Patrick it was who came to Ireland...
Writing: A Revolution in Saxon England
So the Saxons, the Angles, and the Jutes all began landing in Britain in the 5th century. They sought their fortunes and plunders and...
Where is Arthur? Camlann and Beyond
In all of this talk of the Heptarchy and the ascendancy of the Roman Church, we have seen precious little of the Welsh and...
Far-sighted Romans, Short-sighted Britons
In the second and third centuries, Roman Empire trade with Britannia was increasingly ravaged by seaborne pirates the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes, all of...
Into the Void: The Emergence of Ambrosius and Arthur
So this is Britannia in the 400s: Romans gone, Saxons streaming in, Picts threatening in the north, Britons besieged. Vortigern is himself betrayed, not...
Nennius and Arthur’s 12 Battles
Sometime in the 9th century (most scholars say c. 830), a monk named Nennius wrote the Historia Brittonum. This History of the Britons goes...