For centuries, historians speculated about the final residence of England’s last Anglo-Saxon king. The famous Bayeux Tapestry ...

but still used on a formal level till the XV c. The strong influence of Anglo-Norman dialect of French in this period caused an active borrowing of French vocabulary into Irish. Most of the borrowings ...

This revealed the latrine, as well as artefacts including Anglo-Norman pottery, a silver brooch from the 11th century and a copper alloy from a stirrup, suggesting aristocrats with decorated ...

Anglo-Saxons are recognised by their moustaches. Normans by their hair, cropped aggressively short at the back. The more you look at the tapestry, the more sophisticated it appears. To take a ...

“The realisation that the 2006 excavations had found, in effect, an Anglo-Saxon en-suite confirmed to us that this house sits on the site of an elite residence pre-dating the Norman Conquest ...

Explores the 12th-century Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland. The invasion also affects Europe, as Irish resources fuel conflict between England and France. In 12th-century Ireland, provincial kings ...