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Trees in Anglo-Saxon England
Literature, Lore and Landscape
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English
Published/Copyright:
2010
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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.
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.
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Contents
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List of Illustrations and Tables
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Preface and Acknowledgements
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List of Abbreviations
x - Part I Tree Symbolism
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Chapter 1 Trees and Groves in Pre-Christian Belief
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Chapter 2 Christianity and the Sacred Tree
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Chapter 3 Trees in Literature
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Chapter 4 Trees, Mythology and National Consciousness: into the Future
96 - Part II Trees and Woodland in the Anglo-Saxon Landscape
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Chapter 5 The Nature and Distribution of Anglo-Saxon Woodland
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Chapter 6 The Use of Anglo-Saxon Woodland: Place-Name and Charter 138 Evidence
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Chapter 7 Trees in the Landscape
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Chapter 8 Trees of Wood-Pasture and ‘Ancient Countryside’
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Chapter 9 Trees of Wet Places in Early Medieval Records: Alder and Willow
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Chapter 10 Trees of Open or Planned Countryside
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Chapter 11 Other Trees Noted in Charters and Early Place-Names
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Chapter 12 Trees not Readily Apparent in the Early Medieval Written Record
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Epilogue
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Bibliography
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Index
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January 30, 2024
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9781846158841
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Boydell Press
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Keywords for this book
Anglo-Saxon England; trees; rural economy; wood-pasture resource; hunting; pre-Christian religions; Christian scripture; place-name; charter references; landscape evolution
Audience(s) for this book
For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
