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