Trees in Anglo-Saxon England: Literature, Lore and Landscape (Anglo-Saxon Studies)
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Della Hooke (Author)
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A powerful exploration of trees in both the real and the imagined Anglo-Saxon landscape.
Trees played a particularly important part in the rural economy of Anglo-Saxon England, both for wood and timber and as a wood-pasture resource, with hunting gaining a growing cultural role. But they are also powerful icons in many pre-Christian religions, with a degree of tree symbolism found in Christian scripture too. This wide-ranging book explores both the "real", historical and archaeological evidence of trees and woodland, and as they are depicted in Anglo-Saxon literature and legend. Place-name and charter references cast light upon the distribution of particular tree species (mapped here in detail for the first time) and also reflect upon regional character in a period that was fundamental for the evolution of the present landscape.
Della Hooke is Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Research in Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Birmingham. 5 b/w, 7 line illus.
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Della Hooke is an Honorary Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Research in Arts and Social Sciences, University of Birmingham (FSA: Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London).
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- Contributor: Della Hooke
- Imprint: The Boydell Press
- ISBN13: 9781843838296
- Number of Pages: 206
- Packaged Dimensions: 156x234mm
- Packaged Weight: 1
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Release Date: 2013-04-18
- Series: Anglo-Saxon Studies
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: Della Hooke is an Honorary Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Research in Arts and Social Sciences, University of Birmingham (FSA: Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London).
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