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Author:   Michael D. J. Bintley (Lecturer in Early Medieval Literature and Culture, Lecturer in Early Medieval Literature and Culture, Birkbeck, University of London) ,  Michael G. Shapland (Specialist in historic buildings, Specialist in historic buildings, UCL field archaeology unit)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.90cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   0.524kg
ISBN:  

9780198855514

ISBN 10:   0198855516
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   06 February 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of illustrations 1: Michael D. J. Bintley and Michael G. Shapland: An Introduction to Trees and Timber in the Anglo-Saxon World Timber in Anglo-Saxon building practice 2: Michael G. Shapland: Meanings of Timber and Stone in Anglo-Saxon Building Practice 3: Mark Gardiner: The Sophistication of Late Anglo-Saxon Timber Buildings 4: John Baker: References to Timber Building Materials in Old English Place-Names Perceptions of Wood and Wooden Objects 5: Martin G. Comey: The Wooden Drinking Vessels in the Sutton Hoo Assemblage: Materials, Morphology and Usage 6: Jennifer Neville: The Exeter Book Riddles' Precarious Insights into Wooden Artefacts 7: Michael D. J. Bintley: Brungen of Bearwe: Ploughing Common Furrows in Exeter Book Riddle 21, The Dream of the Rood, and the Æcerbot Charm 8: Pirkko Koppinen: Breaking the Mould: Solving the Old English Riddle 12 as Wudu 'Wood' Trees and Woodland in Anglo-Saxon Belief 9: Clive Tolley: What is a 'World Tree', and Should We Expect to Find One Growing in Anglo-Saxon England? 10: John Blair: Holy Beams: Anglo-Saxon Cult Sites and the Place-Name Element Beam 11: Michael D. J. Bintley: Recasting the Role of Sacred Trees in Anglo-Saxon Spiritual History: the South Sandbach Cross 'Ancestors of Christ' Panel in its Cultural Contexts 12: Della Hooke: Christianity and the 'Sacred Tree'

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This book successfully presents an array of well researched, thoughtful essays on the role of trees and timber in the Anglo-Saxon world. Determinedly interdisciplinary, the volume brings together archaeologists, literary scholars, historians, comparative mythologists, and historical geographers to give multiple perspectives on the ways in which trees and their products influenced everyday life, ritual, and art in England during the Anglo-Saxon centuries. * Sarah Harlan-Haughey, The Medieval Review * This volume succeeds on many levels, not least because even its lacunae will stimulate the reader to question, squirrel and discuss. * Graham Jones, The Antiquaries Journal * This is an important book, nicely structured and well edited. It is fantastic to see such an interdisciplinary approach to Anglo-Saxon studies breaking new ground in our understanding of Early Medieval Britain ... there is much here to fascinate and intrigue * Ethan Doyle White, Time & Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture * extremely wide-ranging volume ... presents many intriguing aspects of wood in Anglo-Saxon contexts * Nat Alcock, Society for Medieval Archaeology * a fascinating collection, and the editors are to be congratulated on bringing together such an interdisciplinary group of scholars, and maintaining such a tight focus throughout * Stephen Rippon, Medieval Settlement Research *

Author Information

Michael Bintley is Lecturer in Early Medieval Literature and Culture at Birkbeck, University of London. Michael Shapland works for the UCL Field Archaeology Unit, Archaeology South-East, where he specialises in historic buildings.

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