The primary sources offered here provide invaluable insight into a time period that has comparatively few pieces of documentary evidence.
One of the most comprehensive timelines of the English Middle Ages was written
during the English Middle Ages. Take a look at the origin, development and survival of
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in this feature by your Guide.
Modern English version of the important and ancient history of Britain, translated by Rev. James Ingram, with additional segments translated by Dr. J.A. Giles, online here at the Medieval History site.
It is usual to speak of "the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle"; it would be more correct to say that there are four Anglo-Saxon Chronicles. An article from the 1911 Encyclopedia.
Online transcriptions and extensive information about this important and ancient history of Britain, at the Labyrinth.
Gildas' 6th-century treatise is the earliest documentary source for British history. Here's the complete text of
On the Ruin of Britain, translated by by J.A. Giles; presented in 26 sections on seven pages, online here at the Medieval History site.
In the early ninth century, Nennius wrote a somewhat suspect but extraordinarily significant chronicle of early Britain. Here's the complete text of
The History of the Britons, translated by by J.A. Giles; presented in 66 sections on eighteen pages, online here at the Medieval History site.
Books I, II, IV and part of III are provided by Paul Halsall at his Medieval Sourcebook.
The CASSS is a project to identify, record and publish in a consistent format, the earliest English sculpture dating from the 7th to the 11th centuries. The website includes an immense collection of online digital images.
The EMC is a project to gather together into a single database all of the single finds of coins minted 410-1180 found in the British Isles. The website includes a searchable database with images.
View the manuscript folio by folio and use the "zoom" feature to focus on the parts that interest you; or read the descriptions and select the folio you want from there. Nicely prepared at the Cambridge University Library.
Excellent resource of primary documents concerning English history from the Anglo-Saxon era to the late medieval age, provided by Paul Halsall at Fordham University.
Octavia Randolph offers an extract from the laws of King Ælfred, accompanied by a useful explanation of the law.
