Bede (c. 673-735) was the leading intellectual figure of the Anglo-Saxon Church, and his
writings had a profound influence on the development of English Christian thought. Among …

In the modern world, angels can often seem to be no more than a symbol, but in the Middle
Ages men and women thought differently. Some offered prayers intended to secure the …

Christian theology and religious belief were crucially important to Anglo-Saxon society, and
are manifest in the surviving textual, visual and material evidence. This is the first full-length …

Bede and the Cosmos examines Bede's cosmology—his understanding of the universe and
its laws. It explores his ideas regarding both the structure and mechanics of the created …

In later Anglo-Saxon England, executed offenders and, probably also, other social deviants
were separated from the rest of the community in death. They were buried in cemeteries far …

This essay proposes that the Early Middle English Orrmulum, written in precocious isolation
in the 1160s, deserves thorough reconsideration as an important marker in the development …

The early medieval English were far more diverse and better connected to a broader world.
Their writings reveal substantial interest in Europe, Asia, and Africa while they situated …

One of the least understood texts written during the transition from Old to Middle English is
Vices and Virtues, a religious dialogue surviving in London, British Library, Stowe 34 (s. xiii …

This article attempts to introduce a reconsideration regarding the murals at the tower at
Torba. Firstly, it focus on its relatively scarce historiography, which can be explained by …

Roberta Bassi explores ways in which the Anglo-Saxon authors Bede and Ælfric of
Eynsham worked with images and ideas of the afterlife in the eighth and tenth centuries …