Research Catalog

Title

Trees in Anglo-Saxon England : literature, lore and landscape / Della Hooke.

Author

Hooke, Della

Publication

Woodbridge : Boydell, 2010.

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Details

Description

vii, 310 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.

Summary

"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 Christian scripture too. This wide-ranging book explores both the 'real', historical and archaeological evidence of trees and woodland, and as they are depicted in Anglo-Saxon literature and legend. Place-name and charter references cast light upon the distribution of particular tree species (mapped here in detail for the first time) and also reflect upon regional character in a period that was fundamental for the evolution of the present landscape."--Publisher's description.

Series Statement

Anglo-Saxon studies ; 13

Uniform Title

Anglo-Saxon studies ; 13.

Subject

• Trees > Great Britain > History
• Trees in literature
• Trees > Symbolic aspects > Great Britain
• Trees > Folklore
• Great Britain > History > Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-302) and index.

Contents

Trees and groves in pre-Christian belief -- Christianity and the sacred tree -- Trees in literature -- Trees, mythology and national consciousness: into the future -- The nature and distribution of Anglo-Saxon woodland -- The use of Anglo-Saxon woodland: place-names and charter evidence -- Trees in the landscape -- Trees of wood-pasture and 'Ancient Countryside' -- Trees of wet places in early medieval records: alder and willow -- Trees of open/planned countryside -- Other trees noted in charters and early place-names -- Trees not readily apparent in the early medieval written record.

ISBN

• 9781843835653 (hbk.)
• 1843835657 (hbk.)

LCCN

• 2011380899
• 99944303911

OCLC

• 502045728
• ocn502045728
• SCSB-5592547

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries