Trees and Timber in the Anglo-Saxon World

Herausgeber: Bintley, Michael D J; Shapland, Michael G

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Produktbeschreibung

The very first collection of essays written about the role of trees in early medieval England, bringing together established specialists and new voices to present an interdisciplinary insight into the complex relationship between the early English and their woodlands.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9780198855514
• ISBN-10: 0198855516
• Artikelnr.: 59963352

Autorenporträt

Michael Bintley is Lecturer in Early Medieval Literature and Culture at Birkbeck, University of London. Michael Shapland works for the UCL Field Archaeology Unit, Archaeology South-East, where he specialises in historic buildings.

Inhaltsangabe

* List of illustrations
* 1: Michael D. J. Bintley and Michael G. Shapland: An Introduction to
Trees and Timber in the Anglo-Saxon World
* Timber in Anglo-Saxon building practice
* 2: Michael G. Shapland: Meanings of Timber and Stone in Anglo-Saxon
Building Practice
* 3: Mark Gardiner: The Sophistication of Late Anglo-Saxon Timber
Buildings
* 4: John Baker: References to Timber Building Materials in Old English
Place-Names
* Perceptions of Wood and Wooden Objects
* 5: Martin G. Comey: The Wooden Drinking Vessels in the Sutton Hoo
Assemblage: Materials, Morphology and Usage
* 6: Jennifer Neville: The Exeter Book Riddles' Precarious Insights
into Wooden Artefacts
* 7: Michael D. J. Bintley: Brungen of Bearwe: Ploughing Common Furrows
in Exeter Book Riddle 21, The Dream of the Rood, and the Æcerbot
Charm
* 8: Pirkko Koppinen: Breaking the Mould: Solving the Old English
Riddle 12 as Wudu 'Wood'
* Trees and Woodland in Anglo-Saxon Belief
* 9: Clive Tolley: What is a 'World Tree', and Should We Expect to Find
One Growing in Anglo-Saxon England?
* 10: John Blair: Holy Beams: Anglo-Saxon Cult Sites and the Place-Name
Element Beam
* 11: Michael D. J. Bintley: Recasting the Role of Sacred Trees in
Anglo-Saxon Spiritual History: the South Sandbach Cross 'Ancestors of
Christ' Panel in its Cultural Contexts
* 12: Della Hooke: Christianity and the 'Sacred Tree'