General:
Bassett, Steven ed. The Origins of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms. Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1989.
*Campbell, James, Eric John, and Patrick Wormald. The Anglo-Saxons. London: Penguin, 1991.
Campbell. Essays in Anglo-Saxon History. London: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 1995.
Fell, Christine E., Cecily. Clark, and Elizabeth Williams. Women in Anglo-Saxon England. Colonnade Book. London: British Museum Publications, 1984.
Hinton DA, Crawford S, Hamerow, Helena, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Kirby, D. P. The Earliest English Kings. London: Routledge, 2000.
Fleming, Robin. Britain after Rome. London: Penguin, 2010.
Yorke, Barbara. Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England. London: Taylor and Francis, 1990.
Christianity:
*Blair, John, Richard Sharpe. Pastoral Care before the Parish. London: Leicester University Press, 1992.
*Blair, John. The Church in Anglo-Saxon Society. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Cubitt, Catherine. Anglo-Saxon Church Councils c. 650-850. London: Leicester University Press, 1995.
Foot, Sarah. “The Role of the Minster in Earlier Anglo-Saxon Society” in Monasteries and Society in Medieval Britain edited by Thompson, Benjamin. Stamford: Paul Watkins, 1999.
*Foot, Sarah. Monastic Life in Anglo-Saxon England, c.600-900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Foot, Sarah. Veiled Women 1. Vermont, Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2000.
Mayr-Harting, Henry. The Coming of Christianity to Anglo-Saxon England. London: B.T. Batsford Ltd, 1972.
Paganism and popular religion:
Blair, John. Building Anglo-Saxon England. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018.
Frodsham, P. & O’Brien, C. Yeavering : people, power & place, Stroud: Tempus, 2005.
Grattan, JHG, and Charles Singer. Anglo Saxon Magic and Medicine. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1952.
Griffiths, Bill. Aspects of Anglo-Saxon Magic. Hockwold-cum-Wilton: Anglo-Saxon Books, 1996.
Hawkes, S. C., Davidson, H. R. E. and Hawkes, C. “The Finglesham Man,” Antiquity 39.153 (1965): 17–32.
Herbert, Kathleen. Looking for the Lost Gods of England. Middlesex: Anglo-Saxon Books, 1994.
Mearns, Adam. “This, That and the Other: Locating the Supernatural Enemy in Old English.” English Language and Linguistics 19, no. 2 (2015): 213–26.
Raiswell, R and Dendle, P. ‘Demon Possession in Anglo-Saxon and Early Modern England: Continuity and Evolution in Social Context’. Journal of British Studies, 47,4 (2008): 738-767.
*Sanmark, Alex, and Semple, Sarah. Signals of Belief in Early England : Anglo-Saxon Paganism Revisited.Havertown: Oxbow Books, 2010.
Sofield, Clifford M. Living with the Dead: Human Burials in Anglo-Saxon Settlement Contexts, Archaeological Journal, 172, no. 2 (2015): 351-388.
Art and culture:
Bailey, R. England’s Earliest Sculptors. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1996.
Brundle, Lisa. “The Body on Display: Exploring the Role and Use of Figurines in Early Anglo-Saxon England.” Journal of Social Archaeology 13, no. 2 (2013): 197–219.
Campbell, James. ‘The impact of the Sutton Hoo discovery on the study of Anglo-Saxon history’. In Voyage to the Other World : The Legacy of Sutton Hoo, edited by Kendall, CB, & Wells, PS. University of Minnesota Press: Minneapolis, 1992.
Carver, M. Sutton Hoo: Burial Ground of Kings? Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1998.
Dickinson, Tania M. “Symbols of Protection: The Significance of Animal-Ornamented Shields in Early Anglo-Saxon England.” Medieval Archaeology 49, no. 1 (2005): 109–63.
Hirst, S. The Prittlewell Prince. The Discovery of a Rich Anglo-Saxon Burial. London: Museum of London Archaeology Service, 2003.
Niles, John D. “The Myth of the Anglo-Saxon Oral Poet.” Western Folklore 62, no. 1/2 (2003): 7-61.
Orton, F. Rethinking the Ruthwell and Bewcastle Monuments: Some strictures of Similarity; Some Questions of History. In Theorising Anglo Saxon Stone Sculpture, edited by C. Karkov and F. Orton, 65-92. Morganton: West Virginia University Press, 2003.
Pesch, Alexandra. “Facing Faces: The Head Motif in Migration-Period Archaeology.” Medieval Archaeology 61, no. 1 (2017): 41–68.
*Williamson, Craig, Kramer, Michael P., and Lerner, L. Scott, eds. A Feast of Creatures : Anglo-Saxon Riddle-Songs. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982.
*Webster, Leslie. Anglo-Saxon Art : A New History. London: British Museum Press, 2012.
Background, costume, and setting:
Cramp, Rosemary. ‘The Hall in Beowulf and in Archaeology’. In Heroic poetry in the Anglo-Saxon period: studies in honor of Jess B. Bessinger, Jr, edited by J.B Bessinger, H. Damico and J. Leyerle. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute publications, 1993.
Hamerow, Helena. Rural Settlements and Society in Anglo-Saxon England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Owen-Crocker, Gale R., Christine Wetherell, and Rosalyn Smith. Dress in Anglo-Saxon England. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2004.
Phythian-Adams, Charles. Land of the Cumbrians: A study in British Provincial origins, AD 400-1120. Aldershot: Scholar Press, 1996.
Scull, C., Minter, F. and Plouviez, J. “Social and economic complexity in early medieval England: a central place complex of the East Anglian kingdom at Rendlesham, Suffolk,” Antiquity, 90.354 (2016): 1594–1612.
Mercia:
Brown, Michelle P. Mercia: An Anglo-Saxon in Europe. London: Leicester University Press, 2001.
Dornier, Ann. Mercian Studies. Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1977.
Hill, David, Margaret Worthington. Æthelbald and Offa: two eighth-century kings of Mercia : papers from a conference held in Manchester in 2000, Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies. London: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Ltd, 2005.