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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.

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Author:   Maren Clegg Hyer (Department of English, Valdosta State University (United States)) ,  Gale R. Owen-Crocker (English, American and Creative Writing, University of Manchester (United Kingdom))
Publisher:   Liverpool University Press
Imprint:   Liverpool University Press
ISBN:  

9781800349131

ISBN 10:   1800349130
Pages:   398
Publication Date:   01 March 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction , Gale R. Owen- Crocker Chapter 1: Enta geweorc: The Ruin and its Contexts Reconsidered, Christopher Grocock Chapter 2: Roads and Tracks in Anglo-Saxon England , Paul Hindle Chapter 3: Domestic Dwellings, Workshops and Working Buildings, Kevin Leahy and Michael Lewis Chapter 4: Place and Power: Meetings between Kings in Early Anglo-Saxon England, Damian Tyler Chapter 5: The Cuckoo and the Magpie: The Building Culture of the Anglo-Saxon Church, Michael Shapland Chapter 6: Landmarks of Faith: Crosses and other Free-Standing Stones, Elizabeth Coatsworth Chapter 7: Landmarks of the Dead: Exploring Anglo-Saxon Mortuary Geographies, Sarah Semple and Howard Williams Chapter 8: Boundaries and Walls, Margaret Worthington Hill and Erik Grigg Chapter 9: The Landscape of Late Saxon Burghs and the Politics of Urban Foundation, Jeremy Haslam Chapter 10: Signalling Intent: Beacons, Lookouts and Military Communications, John Baker and Stuart Brookes

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Reviews 'Wide-ranging and definitive.' Paul Cavill, Medieval Settlement Research Group

Author Information

Maren Clegg Hyer is Professor of English at Valdosta State University (Georgia). Her many publications include Water and the Environment in the Anglo-Saxon World (ed with Della Hooke, Liverpool, 2017) and Old English Lexicology and Lexicography (ed with Haruko Momma and Samantha Zacher, Boydell, 2020). Gale R. Owen-Crocker is Professor Emerita of The University of Manchester; she was formerly Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture and Director of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies. She was co-founder and for 15 years co-editor of the journal Medieval Clothing and Textiles. Her recent books include Clothing the Past: Surviving Garments from Early Medieval to Early Modern Western Europe (with Elizabeth Coatsworth, Brill, 2018) and Making Sense of the Bayeux Tapestry: Readings and Reworkings (with Anna Henderson, Manchester, 2016).

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