Anglo-Saxon England embraces all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture.

List of illustrations; 1. The tabernacula of Gregory the Great and the conversion of Anglo-Saxon England Flora Spiegel; 2. The career of Aldhelm Michael Lapidge; 3. Aldhelm's rejection of the muses and the mechanics of poetic inspiration in early Anglo-Saxon England Emily Thornbury; 4. The name 'Merovingian' and the dating of Beowulf Walter Goffart; 5. Poisoned places: the Avernian tradition in Old English poetry Daniel Anlezark; 6. Demonstrative behaviour and political communication in later Anglo-Saxon England Julia Barrow; 7. An abbot, an archbishop and the Viking raids of 1006¿7 and 1009¿12 Simon Keynes; 8. Evidence of recluses in eleventh-century England Tom Licence.