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By Michael D. J. Bintley,Michael G. Shapland

ISBN-10: 0199680795

ISBN-13: 9780199680795

timber have been of basic value in Anglo-Saxon society. Anglo-Saxons dwelt in trees homes, trusted forest as an monetary source, and created a cloth tradition of wooden which used to be not less than as meaningfully-imbued, and enormously extra normal, than the sculpture and metalwork with which we affiliate them at the present time. timber held a important position in Anglo-Saxon trust platforms, which carried into the Christian interval, no longer least within the determine of the go itself. Despite
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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