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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hooke, Della.

Contributor:

Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Series:

Anglo-Saxon studies ; 13.

Anglo-Saxon studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trees--Great Britain--History.

Trees.

Trees in literature.

Trees--Symbolic aspects--Great Britain.

Trees--Folklore.

Trees--Symbolic aspects.

History.

Great Britain--History--Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

vii, 310 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Woodbridge : Boydell, 2010.

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.

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.

Notes:

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

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

ISBN:

1843835657

9781843835653

OCLC:

502045728

Publisher Number:

99946494758