Anglo-Saxons there was a flowering of literature and language. Charters and law were also established. The term "Anglo-Saxon" is popularly used for the language that was spoken and written by the Anglo-Saxons in England and eastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century. In scholarly use, it is more commonly called Old English. The history of the Anglo-Saxons is the history of a cultural identity. It developed from divergent groups in association with the people's adoption of Christianity, and was integral to the establishment of various kingdoms. Threatened by extended Danish invasions and military occupation of eastern
Anglo-Norman literature in England, but none of the French plays acted in England in the 12th and 13th centuries has been preserved. "Adam", which is generally considered to be an Anglo-Norman mystery of the 12th century, was probably written in France at the beginning of the 13th century ("Romania" xxxii. 637), and the so-called Anglo-Norman "Resurrection" belongs also to continental French. It is necessary to state that the earliest English moralities seem to have been imitations of the French ones. Attribution Anglo-Norman literature Anglo-Norman literature is literature composed in the Anglo-Norman language developed during the period 1066–1204 when the Duchy of Normandy