Trees in Anglo-Saxon England : literature, lore and 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 Ch...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Woodbridge :
Boydell & Brewer,
2010.
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Colección: | Anglo-Saxon Studies, 13.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontcover; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND TABLES; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; PART I: Tree Symbolism; 1 Trees and Groves in Pre-Christian Belief; 2 Christianity and the Sacred Tree; 3 Trees in Literature; 4 Trees, Mythology and National Consciousness: into the Future; PART II: Trees and Woodland in the Anglo-Saxon Landscape; 5 The Nature and Distribution of Anglo-Saxon Woodland; 6 The Use of Anglo-Saxon Woodland: Place-Name and Charter Evidence; 7 Trees in the Landscape; PART III: Individual Tree Species in Anglo-Saxon England.
- 8 Trees of Wood-Pasture and 'Ancient Countryside'9 Trees of Wet Places in Early Medieval Records: Alder and Willow; 10 Trees of Open or Planned Countryside; 11 Other Trees Noted in Charters and Early Place-Names; 12 Trees not Readily Apparent in the Early Medieval Written Record; EPILOGUE; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; Backcover.