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The material culture of daily living in the Anglo-Saxon world / edited by Maren Clegg Hyer and Gale R. Owen-Crocker.
Penn Museum Library DA152 .M37 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anglo-Saxons--Material culture.
- Anglo-Saxons.
- Material culture--England--History--To 1500.
- Material culture.
- Anglo-Saxons--Social life and customs.
- Anglo-Saxons--Social conditions.
- Anglo-Saxons--Antiquities.
- Social conditions.
- History.
- Great Britain--History--Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066.
- Great Britain.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 386 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Exeter, UK : University of Exeter Press, 2011.
- Contents:
- Introduction : material culture and the study of Anglo-Saxon England / Maren Clegg Hyer
- Prelude : agriculture through the year / David Hill
- The true staff of life : the multiple roles of plants / C.P. Biggam
- Steep vessel, high horn-ship : water transport / Katrin Thier
- 'To eat, to wear, to work' : the place of sheep and cattle in the economy / Christopher Grocock
- Devils' crafts and dragon skins? Sheaths, shoes and other leatherwork / Esther Cameron and Quita Mould
- Chanting upon a dunghill : working skeletal materials / Ian Riddler and Nicola Trzaska-Nartowski
- Earth's treasure : food and drink / Christina Lee
- Woven works : making and using textiles / Maren Clegg Hyer and Gale R. Owen-Crocker
- Weland's work : metals and metalsmiths / David A. Hinton
- 'Seldom ... does the deadly spear rest for long' : weapons and armour / Gale R. Owen-Crocker
- Things of this world : portable antiquities and their potential / Michael Lewis, Andrew Richardson and David Williams
- Sight, insight and hand : some reflections on the design and manufacture of the Fuller brooch / Elizabeth Coatsworth and Michael Pinder
- The bright cup : early medieval vessel glass / Win Stephens
- Body and soul : disease and impairment / Christina Lee.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [368]-371) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780859898430
- 0859898431
- OCLC:
- 671700032
- Publisher Number:
- 99944158073
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