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.
Author(s): Nicholas J. Higham, Martin J. Ryan (eds.)
Series: Publications of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies, 9
Publisher: The Boydell Press
Year: 2011
Language: English
Pages: XII+246
City: Woodbridge
List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgements ix
List of Contributors x
Abbreviations xi
1. Place-Names, Language and the Anglo-Saxon Landscape: An Introduction / Martin J. Ryan 1
2. The Landscape of Place-Name Studies / Alexander R. Rumble 23
3. Place-Names as Travellers' Landmarks / Ann Cole 51
4. Light thrown by Scandinavian Place-Names on the Anglo-Saxon Landscape / Gillian Fellows-Jensen 69
5. Language and the Anglo-Saxon Landscape: Towards an Archaeological Interpretation of Place-Names in Wiltshire / Simon Draper 85
6. Hunting the Vikings in South Cumbria from Ambleside to Haverbrack / Linda M. Corrigan 105
7. Viking-Age Amounderness: A Reconsideration / Richard Watson 125
8. The Woodland Landscape of Early Medieval England / Della Hooke 143
9. The Pre-Conquest Lands and Parish of Crediton Minster, Devon / Duncan Probert 175
10. Rewriting the Bounds: Pershore’s Powick and Leigh / Peter A. Stokes 195
11. That 'Dreary Old Question': The Hide in Early Anglo-Saxon England / Martin J. Ryan 207
12. Boroughs and Socio-Political Reconstruction in Late Anglo-Saxon England / Dorn Van Dommelen 225
Index 241
