Water and the environment in the Anglo-Saxon world / edited by Maren Clegg Hyer and Della Hooke ; with contributions by Hal Dalwood, Jill Frederick, Mark Gardiner, Della Hooke, Rebecca Reynolds, Stephen Rippon, Martin Watts and Kelley M. Wickham-Crowley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hyer, Maren Clegg, editor.

Hooke, Della, editor.

Dalwood, Hal, contributor.

Frederick, Jill.

Gardiner, Mark (Mark F.)

Reynolds, Rebecca.

Rippon, Stephen, 1968-

Watts, Martin.

Wickham-Crowley, Kelley M.

Series:

Exeter studies in medieval Europe

The material culture of daily living in the Anglo-Saxon world ; volume 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anglo-Saxons--Material culture.

Anglo-Saxons.

Water and civilization.

England--Civilization--To 1066.

England.

Civilization.

Physical Description:

xv, 261 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Similar in theme and method to the first and second volumes, Water and the Environment in the Anglo-Saxon World, third volume of the series Daily Living in the Anglo-Saxon World, illuminates how an understanding of the impact of water features on the daily lives of the people and the environment of the Anglo-Saxon world can inform reading and scholarship of the period in significant ways. In discussing fishing, for example, we learn in what ways fish and fishing might have impacted the life of the average person who lived near fishing waters in Anglo-Saxon England: how fishing affected that person's diet, livelihood and religious obligations, as well as how fish and fishing waters influenced social and cultural structures. Similar lies of enquiry in the volume's chapters shed insight on water imagery in Old English poetry, on place names that delineate types of watery bodies across the Anglo-Saxon landscape and on human interactions (poetic and otherwise) with fens and other wetlands, sacred wells and springs, landing spaces, bridges, canals, watermills and river settlements, as well as a variety of other waterscapes. The volume's examination of the impact of water features on the daily lives of the people and the environment of the Anglo-Saxon world fosters an understanding not only of the archaeological and material circumstances of water and its uses, but also the imaginative waterscape found in the textual records of the Anglo-Saxons. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 From Whale's Road to Water under the Earth: Water in Anglo-Saxon Poetry / Jill A. Frederick Frederick, Jill A. 15

2 Water in the Landscape: Charters, Laws and Place Names / Della Hooke Hooke, Della 33

3 Fens and Frontiers / Kelley M. Wickhan-Crowley Wickhan-Crowley, Kelley M. 68

4 Marshlands and Other Wetlands / Stephen Rippon Rippon, Stephen 89

5 Rivers, Wells and Springs in Anglo-Saxon England: Water in Sacred and Mystical Contexts / Della Hooke Hooke, Della 107

6 Food from the Water: Fishing / Rebecca Reynolds Reynolds, Rebecca 136

7 Inland Waterways and Coastal Transport: Landing Places, Canals and Bridges / Mark Gardiner Gardiner, Mark 152

8 Watermills and Waterwheels / Martin Watts Watts, Martin 167

9 Water, Wics and Burhs / Hal Dalwood Dalwood, Hal 187.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-241) and index.

ISBN:

1786940280

9781786940285

OCLC:

962435581