Trees in Anglo-Saxon England literature, lore and landscape
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 Ch...
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The Boydell Press
2010
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| Schriftenreihe: | Anglo-Saxon studies
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Inhaltsangabe:
- 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