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Trees in Anglo-Saxon England: Literature, Lore and Landscape
Della Hooke
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Description for Trees in Anglo-Saxon England: Literature, Lore and Landscape
Paperback. A powerful exploration of trees in both the real and the imagined Anglo-Saxon landscape. Series: Anglo-Saxon Studies. Num Pages: 322 pages, 24, 6 black & white illustrations, 18 black & white line drawings, 6 black and white, 18. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3F; HBJD1; HBLC; HDL; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 172 x 25. Weight in Grams: 566.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
322
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
559g
Number of Pages
206
Place of Publication
Woodbridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781843838296
SKU
V9781843838296
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99-4
Reviews for Trees in Anglo-Saxon England: Literature, Lore and Landscape
Clearly written, well-illustrated, and impressively broad-ranging in its methodology. The footnotes and bibliography make it an invaluable resource for further study.
PARERGON
Della Hooke's book is the first large-scale treatment of its subject, and could hardly be surpassed in its patient and thorough accumulation of data. Lovers of trees and students of early England have equal reason to be grateful to her.
Ronald Hutton
TIME AND MIND
An enjoyable read and [...] a useful addition to our understanding of pre-Medieval landscapes.
SCOTTISH FORESTY
To look at any tree after reading [the] book is to have a clearer grasp of what someone might have made of it (literally and metaphorically) a thousand years ago.
SALON
An enormously detailed and authoritative study [which] has much to offer Anglo-Saxon scholarship. [...] An excellent volume.
LANDSCAPE HISTORY
[A] well-written and thoughtfully constructed book.
MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY
[A] deeply researched and engagingly written book.
THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW
PARERGON
Della Hooke's book is the first large-scale treatment of its subject, and could hardly be surpassed in its patient and thorough accumulation of data. Lovers of trees and students of early England have equal reason to be grateful to her.
Ronald Hutton
TIME AND MIND
An enjoyable read and [...] a useful addition to our understanding of pre-Medieval landscapes.
SCOTTISH FORESTY
To look at any tree after reading [the] book is to have a clearer grasp of what someone might have made of it (literally and metaphorically) a thousand years ago.
SALON
An enormously detailed and authoritative study [which] has much to offer Anglo-Saxon scholarship. [...] An excellent volume.
LANDSCAPE HISTORY
[A] well-written and thoughtfully constructed book.
MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY
[A] deeply researched and engagingly written book.
THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW