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Water and the Environment in the Anglo-Saxon World (Paperback)
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Water and the Environment in the Anglo-Saxon World (Paperback)
Series: Exeter Studies in Medieval Europe
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Similar in theme and method to the first and second volumes, Water
and the Environment in the Anglo-Saxon World, third volume of the
series Daily Living in the Anglo-Saxon World, illuminates how an
understanding of the impact of water features on the daily lives of
the people and the environment of the Anglo-Saxon world can inform
reading and scholarship of the period in significant ways. In
discussing fishing, for example, we learn in what ways fish and
fishing might have impacted the life of the average person who
lived near fishing waters in early medieval England: how fishing
affected that person's diet, livelihood, and religious obligations,
as well as how fish and fishing waters influenced social and
cultural structures. Similar lines of enquiry in the volume's
chapters shed insight on water imagery in Old English poetry, on
place names that delineate types of watery bodies across the early
medieval landscape, and on human interactions (poetic and
otherwise) with fens and other wetlands, sacred wells and springs,
landing spaces, bridges, canals, watermills, and river settlements,
as well as a variety of other waterscapes. The volume's examination
of the impact of water features on the daily lives of the people
and the environment of the Anglo-Saxon world fosters an
understanding, in the end, not only of the archaeological and
material circumstances of water and its uses, but also the
imaginative waterscapes found in the textual records of the peoples
of early medieval England.
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