The landscapes that surrounded early medieval man, and how he saw and described them, are the subject of this book. The Anglo-Saxon period was one of considerable change in settlement and land-use patterns, but the landscape regions that emerge, documented for the first time in history are still familiar to us today. This volume examines the Anglo-Saxon's view of his natural surroundings and how he utilized the resources available - the cropland, woodland and marginal land of pasture and fen - and how this is reflected in administrative patterns, how it influenced settlement, communications and trade, and moreover influenced the landscape patterns of the following centuries.

The Landscape of Anglo-Saxon England

History

Hooke, Della

Europe

UNKNO

The landscape of pre-Conquest England can often be reconstructed in minute detail. Yet this is one of the first attempts at such a project. Here the evidence is examined for the West Midlands - the counties of Worcestershire, Warwickshire and Gloucestershire, much of which formed the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of the Hwicce. Della Hooke reveals the intimate local landscape through the medium of place names, contemporary documents and archaeological evidence. Her detailed picture brings the Anglo-Saxon countryside very much to life. The patterns which emerge in this period go far to explain the nature of later medieval patterns of settlement and field systems, and provide the key to understanding territorial organisation in the region.

The Anglo-Saxon Landscape: The Kingdom of the Hwicce

Manchester Univ Pr

The Anglo-Saxon landscape: The kingdom of the Hwicce

Manchester University Press

Anglo-Saxon Landscapes of the West Midlands: the Charter Evidence (BAR British)

British Archaeological Reports Oxford Ltd

<p>Sixteen essays reviewing settlement patterns in England, Wales and Scotland, edited by Della Hooke.</p>

Medieval Villages

Oxford University School of Archaeology

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 in Anglo-Saxon England: Literature, Lore and Landscape (Anglo-Saxon Studies)

Boydell Press

<p>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.</p>

Trees in Anglo-Saxon England: Literature, Lore and Landscape (Anglo-Saxon Studies, 13)

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The Landscape of Anglo-Saxon England

The Landscape of Anglo-Saxon England

The Anglo-Saxon Landscape: The Kingdom of the Hwicce

The Anglo-Saxon landscape: The kingdom of the Hwicce

Anglo-Saxon Landscapes of the West Midlands: the Charter Evidence (BAR British)

Medieval Villages

Trees in Anglo-Saxon England: Literature, Lore and Landscape (Anglo-Saxon Studies)

Trees in Anglo-Saxon England: Literature, Lore and Landscape (Anglo-Saxon Studies, 13)