The Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Latin: Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum), written by Bede in about AD 731, is a history of the Christian Churches in England, and of England generally; its main focus is on the conflict between the pre-Schism Roman Rite and Celtic Christianity.It was composed in Latin, and is believed to have been completed in 731 when …

Old English literature refers to poetry and prose written in Old English in early medieval England, from the 7th century to the decades after the Norman Conquest of 1066, a period often termed Anglo-Saxon England. The 7th-century work Cædmon's Hymn is often considered as the oldest surviving poem in English, as it appears in an 8th-century copy of Bede's text, the …

Northumbria (/ n ɔːr ˈ θ ʌ m b r i ə /; Old English: Norþanhymbra rīċe; Latin: Regnum Northanhymbrorum) was an early medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom in what is now Northern England and south-east Scotland.. The name derives from the Old English Norþanhymbre meaning "the people or province north of the Humber", as opposed to the people south of the …

Æthelthryth (or Æðelþryð or Æþelðryþe; c. 636 – 23 June 679 AD) was an East Anglian princess, a Fenland and Northumbrian queen and Abbess of Ely.She is an Anglo-Saxon saint, and is also known as Etheldreda or Audrey, especially in religious contexts.Her father was King Anna of East Anglia, and her siblings were Wendreda and Seaxburh of Ely, both of whom eventually retired …

There are two principal sources for the synod. The first source, the Life of Wilfrid, is a hagiographic work written by Stephen of Ripon, often identified as Eddius Stephanus, probably soon after 710. The second source is the Historia Ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum by the Venerable Bede, written in 731.One of Bede's sources was the Life of Wilfrid itself, but he also had access …

The Old English Bible translations are the partial translations of the Bible prepared in medieval England into the Old English language.The translations are from Latin texts, not the original languages. Many of these translations were in fact Bible glosses, prepared to assist clerics whose grasp of Latin was imperfect and circulated in connection with the Vulgate Latin Bible that was …

The Old English consonant clusters /hl/, /hr/ and /hn/ were reduced to /l/, /r/, and /n/ in Middle English. For example, Old English hlāf, hring and hnutu become loaf, ring and nut in Modern English. Reduction of /hj/ In some dialects of English the cluster /hj/ is reduced to /j/, leading to pronunciations like /juːdʒ/ for huge and ...

Variations. Depending on dialect, /r/ has at least the following allophones in varieties of English around the world: "Standard" R: labialized postalveolar approximant [] (a common realization of the /r/ phoneme worldwide, Received Pronunciation and General American included) "Bunched" or "Molar" R: labialized and pharyngealized velar bunched approximant [ɣ̞ʷˤ] (occurs in …

Chester is a cathedral city and the county town of Cheshire, England.It is located on the River Dee, close to the English–Welsh border.With a population of 79,645 in 2011, it is the most populous settlement of Cheshire West and Chester (a unitary authority which had a population of 329,608 in 2011) and serves as its administrative headquarters. It is also the historic county …

In rhotic dialects, /r/ is pronounced in most cases. In General American English (GA), /r/ is pronounced as an approximant [] or [] in most positions, but after some vowels, it is pronounced as r-coloring.In Scottish English, /r/ is traditionally pronounced as a flap [] or trill [], and there are no r-colored vowels.. In non-rhotic dialects like Received Pronunciation (RP), historic /r/ is ...

In English, the digraph th represents in most cases one of two different phonemes: the voiced dental fricative /ð/ (as in this) and the voiceless dental fricative /θ/ (thing).More rarely, it can stand for /t/ (Thailand, Thomas) or the cluster /tθ/ (eighth).In compound words, th may be a consonant sequence rather than a digraph, as in the /t.h/ of lighthouse

It is unclear how the dance came by this name, "unless in reference to fantastic dancing or costumes", i.e. the deliberately "exotic" flavour of the performance. The English dance thus apparently arose as part of a wider 15th-century European fashion for supposedly "Moorish" spectacle, which also left traces in Spanish and Italian folk dance.The means and chronology …

Northumbrian Old English had been established in what is now southeastern Scotland as far as the River Forth by the seventh century, as the region was part of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria. Middle Irish was the language of the Scottish court, and the common use of Old English remained largely confined to this area until the thirteenth century.. The succeeding …

Saint Margaret of Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Naomh Maighréad; Scots: Saunt Marget, c. 1045 – 16 November 1093), also known as Margaret of Wessex, was an English princess and a Scottish queen.Margaret was sometimes called "The Pearl of Scotland". Born in the Kingdom of Hungary to the expatriate English prince Edward the Exile, Margaret and her family returned to England …