By Michael D. J. Bintley,Michael G. Shapland
ISBN-10: 0199680795
ISBN-13: 9780199680795
this, the transience of bushes and trees compared to steel and stone has intended that the topic has bought relatively little recognition from scholars.
Trees and trees within the Anglo-Saxon World constitutes the first actual choice of essays written concerning the position of bushes in early medieval England, bringing jointly demonstrated experts and new voices to offer an interdisciplinary perception into the complicated dating among the early English and their woodlands. The woodlands of britain weren't merely deeply rooted in each element of Anglo-Saxon fabric tradition, as a resource of warmth and lightweight, foods and drinks, wooden and
timber for the development of instruments, guns, and fabrics, but additionally of their non secular existence, symbolic vocabulary, and feel of connection to their ideals and historical past. those essays don't simply specialise in practicalities, resembling carpentry concepts and the level of forest insurance, yet really discover the
place of bushes and trees within the highbrow lives of the early medieval population of britain, utilizing facts from archaeology, place-names, landscapes, and written sources.
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