Anglo-Saxon Studies

This page is intended to serve as a hub for all aspects of Anglo-Saxon studies. Links are provided to electronic resources of various kinds, including the websites of other research projects, online dictionaries, online bibliographies, online facsimilies of manuscripts, online editions of particular texts, online journals, online manuscript catalogues, the websites for significant archaeological sites (Sutton Hoo, etc.), and museums, and so on. Links are also provided to professional groups (such as the International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England), and to the websites set up for forthcoming academic conferences in the extended field.

<Guidance on the use of the internet, e.g. entries in Wikipedia (much of which is very good, with commendable use of footnotes).> Reference to other resources, such as the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (for those who have ready access to it); and link to index of 'Anglo-Saxon' entries in ASE 37 (2008).

The Toronto Dictionary of Old English, A-G Online. Edited by Antinette diPaolo Healey. A link on the homepage leads (for subscribers) to the DOE Web Corpus. 

The Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources (British Academy), published by the Oxford University Press. Fifteen fascicules published from 1975 to 2012, covering the letters A-S. Fascicules 16-18, completing the dictionary, are due to be published in 2013.

• PASE (Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England), based at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College, London.

• Profile of a Doomed Elite: The Structure of English Landed Society in 1066. Based at King's College London; go here for a description of the project.

• Boundary-clauses in Anglo-Saxon royal diplomas. The LangScape project. The language of Landscape: Reading the Anglo-Saxon Countryside. 

• The Anglo-Saxon Cluster project (CCH), including ASChart (Dr Alex Burghart).

• Dr Sean Miller's 'Early-Medieval-England.net' website.

• Fontes (charters 'sourced' by Dr Rosalind Love). To see the range of about 400 charters covered by Fontes Anglo-Saxonici, and the sources identified in each one, go into 'Search the Fontes Database', choose 'Anglo-Saxon Author', and then, from the drop-down menu,  select 'ANON. (Lat.)'. Ask it to 'show' 50 results at a time (or whatever), and press 'Submit'. You will see a list of Charters, identified by its Sawyer number. Click on 'Show Records' to see identified 'sources' in the charter (BS = Biblia Sacra); click on 'Show Sources' to see the same information displayed with priority given to the source; click on the charter to see details of the charter itself. <At some stage, links should be made from the records in the Electronic Sawyer to the records in Fontes.>

• Anglo-Saxon coinage. Go here for the Corpus of Early Medieval Coin Finds, and the Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles, based in the Department of Coins and Medals at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; with checklist of coin hoards.

• The Early English Laws project, based at the Institute of Historical Research, in London, with the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (KCL). Anglo-Saxon law-codes.

• The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220, based at the University of Leicester

• Many others to be added.

Page originally developed and maintained by Dr Rory Naismith (Clare College, Cambridge), Dr Levi Roach (St John's College, Cambridge), Dr David Woodman (Robinson College, Cambridge), and others. Now maintained by Dr Woodman with web support from Dr Anthony Harris (Clare Hall).

January 2024