Daily Medieval

One site of the  St. Brice's Day Massacre  in 1002 seems to have been Oxford. Æthelred called it in a 1004 charter "a most just ext...

Clashes with Danes in England resulted in establishing the Danelaw, originally just the set of Danish laws agreed upon with Alfred the Great...

European history classrooms in America often talk about the Danish King Cnut (Canute) and his conquest of England. The modern world also he...

After establishing the Danelaw that was supposed to bring peace between the Danes/Vikings and the Anglo-Saxons of the south, Alfred thought ...

Alfred the Great (848 - 26 October 899) was not the King of England, because at the time there was no unified England. He was king of the We...