 Partial view of 9 West Road, the Cambridge English Faculty Building, housing the ASNC department. | |
| Established | 1928 |
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| Location | Cambridge , United Kingdom Faculty of English at 9 West Road |
| Website | www |
The Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic (ASNC or, informally, ASNaC) is one of the constituent departments of the University of Cambridge, and focuses on the history, material culture, languages and literatures of the various peoples who inhabited Britain, Ireland and the extended Scandinavian world in the early Middle Ages (5th century to 12th century). It is based on the second floor of the Faculty of English at 9 West Road. In Cambridge University jargon, its students are called ASNaCs.[1]
It remains the only university faculty or department in the world to focus entirely on the early Middle Ages.[2]
- ^ Tom Shakespeare, 'A Point of View: Taking England back to the Dark Ages', BBC News Magazine, 6 June 2014.
- ^ Cf. Hugh Magennis, The Cambridge Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), p. 35.