Anglo-Saxon England

Badbury Rings
Anglo-Saxon coins
"This year came two leaders into Britain, Cerdic and Cynric his son, with
five ships, at a place that is called Cerdic's-ore. And they fought with
the Welsh the same day. Then he died, and his son Cynric succeeded to
the government, and held it six and twenty winters.“
-Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (495)
Anglo-Saxon relief
St. Martin’s, Canterbury
"In the year 685 King Ecgfrith rashly led an army to waste the province
of the Picts, although many of his friends opposed it…and through the
enemy’s feigning flight he was led into the defiles of inaccessible
mountains, and annihilated, with great part of his forces he had
brought with him".
- Chronicle of Holyrood
Offa of Mercia (757-796)
Saxon Spearhead (6th c.)
 Victim compensation in the time of Alfred the Great (871-99).

An ear, 30 shillings
an eye, the tongue, a hand, or a foot, 66 shillings 3 1/3 pence
the nose, 60s
a front tooth, 8s
a molar, 4s
an eye-tooth, 15s
a thumb, 30s
a thumbnail, 5s
a first finger, 15s; its nail, 3s
a little finger 9s; its nail, 1s
a big toe, 20s
a little toe, 5s.
Offa’s Dyke
Athelstan (924-939)
"Gregory himself went with the rest, and, among other things, some
boys were set to sale, their bodies white, their countenances beautiful,
and their hair very fine.… He therefore … asked, what was the name of
that nation? and was answered, that they were called Angles. "Right,"
said he, "for they have an Angelic face, and it becomes such to be co-
heirs with the Angels in heaven.“
-Bede, History of the English Church (II.1)
“…for while the nation of the Angli, placed in a corner of the world,
remained up to this time misbelieving in the worship of stocks and
stones, I determined, through the aid of your prayers for me, to send to
it, God granting it, a monk of my monastery for the purpose of
preaching.”
- Gregory to Eulogius of Alexandria
Early Christian
Pictish Stone
English Episcopal sees
Letter from Boniface, etc. to Ethelbald
(c.747)
“…We have heard, also, that you vigorously suppress robbery and crime, perjury
and plundering, and that you are known to be a protector of the widows and the
poor: hence peace is established in your kingdom. …But if, as many say (which God
forbid), you have not taken a lawful wife nor professed chastity for God's sake but
have been driven by lust into the sins of fornication and adultery and have lost
your good name before God and men, then we are deeply grieved. And what is
much worse, those who told us add that you have committed these sins, to your
greater shame, in various monasteries with holy nuns and virgins vowed to God.We
have also been informed that you have violated the privileges of churches and
monasteries and filched away their revenues. If this is true, it must be regarded as
a grievous sin.…It is said that your governors and earls use greater violence and
oppression towards monks and priests than any other Christian kings have ever
done before…”
Cynethryth (wife of Offa)
Egbert
Coenwulf of Mercia (767-821)
Ethelwulf
“This year came dreadful fore-warnings over the land of the
Northumbrians, terrifying the people most woefully: these were
immense sheets of light rushing through the air, and whirlwinds, and
fiery, dragons flying across the firmament. These tremendous tokens
were soon followed by a great famine: and not long after, on the sixth
day before the ides of January in the same year, the harrowing inroads
of heathen men made lamentable havoc in the church of God in Holy-
island, by rapine and slaughter.”
-The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (793)
“…bound Edmund and insulted him ignominiously, and beat him with
rods, and afterwards led the devout king to a firm living tree, and tied
him there with strong bonds, and beat him with whips. In between the
whip lashes, Edmund called out with true belief in the Savior Christ.
Because of his belief, because he called to Christ to aid him, the
heathens became furiously angry. They then shot spears at him, as if it
was a game, until he was entirely covered with their missiles, like the
bristles of a hedgehog (just like St. Sebastian was). When Ivar the
impious pirate saw that the noble king would not forsake Christ, but
with resolute faith called after Him, he ordered Edmund beheaded, and
the heathens did so …”
-Abbo of Fleury
Viking ship (9th c.)
Anglo-Saxon helmet
Edward the Elder
Edgar
Edward the Martyr
Ethelred
Cnut
Saxon round church tower
Fyrd soldiers
Harold I
Magnus of Norway
Edward