With contributions by John Baker, Stuart Brookes, Elizabeth Coatsworth, Erik Grigg, Christopher Grocock, Jeremy Haslam, Paul Hindle, Kevin Leahy, Michael Lewis, Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Sarah Semple, Michael Shapland, Damian Tyler, Howard Williams and Margaret Worthington Hill.
"The Material Culture of the Built Environment in the Anglo-Saxon World", second volume of "Daily Living in the Anglo-Saxon World", continues to introduce students of Anglo-Saxon culture to aspects of the realities of the built environment that surrounded Anglo-Saxon peoples through reference to archaeological and textual sources. It considers what structures intruded on the natural landscape the Anglo-Saxons inhabited - roads and tracks, ancient barrows and Roman buildings, the villages and towns, churches, beacons, boundary ditches and walls, grave-markers and standing sculptures - and explores the interrelationships between them and their part in Anglo-Saxon life.
Author(s): Maren Clegg Hyer, Gale R. Owen-Crocker (eds.)
Series: Exeter Studies in Medieval Europe
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Year: 2015
Language: English
Pages: XX+296
List of Figures ix
List of Tables xiii
List of Contributors xv
Introduction / Gale R. Owen-Crocker 1
1. 'Enta geweorc': 'The Ruin' and its Contexts Reconsidered / Christopher Grocock 13
2. Roads and Tracks in Anglo-Saxon England / Paul Hindle 37
3. Domestic Dwellings, Workshops and Working Buildings / Kevin Leahy and Michael Lewis 50
4. Place and Power: Meetings between Kings in Early Anglo-Saxon England / Damian Tyler 76
5. The Cuckoo and the Magpie: The Building Culture of the Anglo-Saxon Church / Michael Shapland 92
6. Landmarks of Faith: Crosses and Other Free-standing Stones / Elizabeth Coatsworth 117
7. Landmarks of the Dead: Exploring Anglo-Saxon Mortuary Geographies / Sarah Semple and Howard Williams 137
8. Boundaries and Walls / Margaret Worthington Hill and Erik Grigg 162
9. The Landscape of Late Saxon Burhs and the Politics of Urban Foundation / Jeremy Haslam 181
10. Signalling Intent: Beacons, Lookouts and Military Communications / John Baker and Stuart Brookes 216
Notes 235
Suggested Reading 281
Index 284
