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Nicholas J. Higham and Martin J. Ryan, eds.
Place-names, Language and the Anglo-Saxon Landscape.
Publisher: Boydell Press.
Publication date: January 20th, 2011.
Size: 23.4 x 15.6mm.
Page count: 252pp.
Publisher's recommended price
Hardback ISBN 9781843836032, £60.00
Description:
The landscape of modern England still bears the imprint of its Anglo-Saxon past. Villages and towns, fields, woods and forests, parishes and shires, all shed light on the enduring impact of the Anglo-Saxons. The essays in this volume explore the richness of the interactions between the Anglo-Saxons and their landscape: how they understood, described, and exploited the environments of which they were a part. Ranging from the earliest settlement period through to the urban expansion of late Anglo-Saxon England, this book draws on evidence from place-names, written sources, and the landscape itself to provide fresh insights into the topic. Subjects explored include the history of the study of place-names and the Anglo-Saxon landscape; landscapes of particular regions and the exploitation of particular landscape types; the mechanisms of the transmission and survival of written sources; and the problems and potentials of interdisciplinary research into the Anglo-Saxon landscape.
Contributors: Ann Cole, Linda M. Corrigan, Dorn Van Dommelen, Simon Draper, Gillian Fellows-Jensen, Della Hooke, Duncan Probert, Alexander R. Rumble, Martin J. Ryan, Peter A. Stokes, Richard Watson.
Contents:
1 Place-Names, Language and the Anglo-Saxon Landscape: An Introduction
2 The Landscape of Place-Name Studies
3 Place-Names as Travellers' Landmarks
4 Light thrown by Scandinavian Place-Names on the Anglo-Saxon Landscape
5 Language and the Anglo-Saxon Landscape: Towards an Archaeological Interpretation of Place-Names in Wiltshire
6 Hunting the Vikings in South Cumbria from Ambleside to Haverbrack
7 Viking-Age Amounderness: A Reconsideration
8 The Woodland Landscape of Early Medieval England
9 The Pre-Conquest Lands and Parish of Crediton Minster, Devon
10 Rewriting the Bounds: Pershore's Powick and Leigh
11 That 'Dreary Old Question': The Hide in Early Anglo-Saxon England
12 Boroughs and Socio-Political Reconstruction in Late Anglo-Saxon England.