Anglo-Saxon England

Anglo-Saxon England is a podcast looking at the history of Anglo-Saxon England, beginning with the end of Roman Britain and ending with the Norman Conquest. We will not only talk about the history but also the literature, culture, and historiography of the Anglo-Saxon period. This show strives to offer an accessible but scholarly rigorous overview that will appeal both to beginners and to experts.

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Episoder(124)

Adventus Saxonum

In this episode we begin our discussion of Anglo-Saxon history proper with the arrival of the Saxons. Where did they come from? How many people settled in Sub-Roman Britain? And what happened to the B...

13 Sep 202121min

Gildas: The Last Romano-Briton

This week we take a look at the work and thought of the main written source for sub-Roman Britain and the Saxon migration: Gildas. We discuss the problems we have trying to reconstruct his biography a...

8 Sep 202111min

Sub-Roman Britain

The second part of our look at the work the Saxons' encountered. In this episode we focus on the culture of sub-Roman Britain and the political fragmentation that paved the way for the arrival of the ...

30 Aug 202113min

The End of Roman Britain

In this first episode, we begin a two part look at the Britain encountered by the Saxons in the mid-fifth century. We discuss the reasons for and the results of the collapse of Roman society in Britai...

30 Aug 202115min