A storyteller played music on a small harp or a lyre to accompany their stories and poems. Anglo-Saxon jewellers made brooches, beads and gold ornaments. At first, their artwork was pagan ...

It investigates the connection between the burgeoning interest in trauma studies and darkness and the representation of the mind or of emotional experience in Anglo-Saxon literature. In The Third ...

Beowulf's helmet in the poem is described as made of "beaten ... Much is still unknown about the Anglo-Saxons, who ruled England from the fifth to 11th centuries, primarily because in the ninth ...

Surviving written sources are spotty; oral traditions are plainly extensive but much embroidered in poetry and legend ... from this to the bit-by-bit spread of the original Anglo-Saxon kingships – ...

You can specialise in English Literature, American, Irish and post-colonial literatures, cultural theory, creative writing and film. You will engage with a range of literary/non-literary genres ...