The material culture of the built environment in the Anglo-Saxon world : volume II of The material culture of daily living in the Anglo-Saxon world / edited by Maren Clegg Hyer and Gale R. Owen-Crocker ; with contributions by John Baker [and 14 others].

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2015.
Description
1 online resource (xix, 295 pages) : illustrations, maps, plans

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Series
Exeter studies in medieval Europe [More in this series]
Summary note
The Material Culture of the Built Environment in the Anglo-Saxon World, second volume of Daily Living in the Anglo-Saxon World, continues to introduce students of Anglo-Saxon culture to aspects of the realities of the built environment that surrounded Anglo-Saxon peoples through reference to archaeological and textual sources. It considers what structures intruded on the natural landscape the Anglo-Saxons inhabited - roads and tracks, ancient barrows and Roman buildings, the villages and towns, churches, beacons, boundary ditches and walls, grave-markers and standing sculptures - and explores the interrelationships between them and their part in Anglo-Saxon life.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of description
Print version record.
Contents
  • Introduction / Gale R. Owen-Crocker
  • Enta geweorc : The ruin and its contexts reconsidered / Christopher Grocock
  • Roads and tracks in Anglo-Saxon England / Paul Hindle
  • Domestic dwellings, workshops and working buildings / Kevin Leahy and Michael Lewis
  • Place and power : meetings between kings in early Anglo-Saxon England / Damian Tyler
  • The cuckoo and the magpie : the building culture of the Anglo-Saxon Church / Michael Shapland
  • Landmarks of faith : crosses and other free-standing stones / Elizabeth Coatsworth
  • Landmarks of the dear : exploring Anglo-Saxon mortuary geographies / Sarah Semple and Howard Williams
  • Boundaries and walls / Margaret Worthington Hill and Erik Grigg
  • The landscape of late Saxon burhs and the politics of urban foundation / Jeremy Haslam
  • Signalling intent : beacons, lookouts and military communications / John Baker and Stuart Brookes.
ISBN
  • 9781781384466 ((electronic bk.))
  • 1781384460 ((electronic bk.))
OCLC
961105656
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