The Sir David Wilson Lecture, the first event in the 2025-26 UCL Institute of Archaeology/British Museum Medieval Seminar Series, will be given by Rory Naismith (University of Cambridge) on 8 October.

Cambridge Core - Global History - Death Rituals

An authoritative biography of Offa of Mercia, revealing his importance as the king who stood at the turning point of Anglo-Saxon history Offa ruled the Merci...

Explore Saami history and its representation in medieval sources, challenging the myth of a purely White Middle Ages.

The Anglo-Saxons: Myth and History - Volume 51

Abstract. Making Domesday presents a fresh interpretation of William the Conqueror’s survey of England, made possible by a major collaborative study of Exo

New analysis of silver items in the Bedale hoard reveals Scandinavians travelled to the east to trade much earlier than previously thought.

This brief contribution seeks to remind readers that familiar periodisation schemes are deeply entrenched not so much because they have withstood the test of time but because scholars come of age a...

New research into a remarkable Viking-Age silver hoard discovered in North Yorkshire, led by Dr Jane Kershaw,  Associate Professor of Viking Age Archaeology, School of Archaeology, has shed light on

Found in the municipal archives of Breda (present-day North Brabant, Netherlands) is a conspicuous but ill-studied late fifteenth or early sixteenth-century codex, whose contents are deemed to have been composed within the late medieval town. Although characterised as a local cross legend, the Middle Dutch work is customarily referred to by its modern moniker of Denensage (i.e. Dane saga) due to the presence and pursuits of ‘viking’ mariners over the course of its verse narrative. By imparting how a group of Danes found their way to Breda and established a stronghold there – refashioning a prominent local tree into a cross in the process – the work occupies a distinct confluence of historiographical, devotional, and literary authorship. Situating the Dane saga in its sociocultural context, this article explores the wide-ranging narrative influences underpinning it, whilst determining its potential authorship and intended audience(s). Lastly, as well as furnishing a new edition of the manuscript, it offers the first English translation of this important, idiosyncratic text.

In a growing number of countries, the activities of hobby detector users are lauded as a vital source of information about the past. The present paper argues that this statement is not unequivocal. An...

In 2019, pieces of a stolen Viking hoard were recovered; since then, analysis of these artefacts has shed new light on Anglo-Saxon England.